Author: BooMan

For most of this year I have thought that it would prove impossible to pass a climate change bill through the Senate. I even agreed, initially, with the common wisdom that the oil leak in the Gulf made passage less likely...

One of the interesting things about Israel is that it is much more self-critical and contemplative than most people give it credit for. All you really have to do to prove this to yourself is to read their left-wing press....

Personally, I am not worried about Nate Silver going to the New York Times. Yeah, I know he is being assimilated into The Borg and the The Times is a badly flawed organization. But I see this as empowering Silver by giving him...

There’s been a lot of pearl-clutching recently over the White House’s involvement in Senate races, but they haven’t done anything illegal or out of the ordinary. And, I think people have been missing the real...

This is what you call ‘playing the Holocaust card.’ I’m not Jewish but most of my closest friends are, and I hope I’m allowed to be offended on their behalf. I think falsely accusing people of saying...