Author: BooMan

Thirty-nine Democrats and every Republican in the House voted to default on America’s debt today. I think it is fair to say that our government is broken.

I was wondering why the Senate clerk was reading the Bernie Sanders single-payer amendment aloud on the Senate floor. Turns out, it’s more Republican obstructionism. They want to grind the wheels of the Senate to a halt to...

I think it’s true that white progressives and black progressives live in totally different worlds and that white progressives can be kind of clueless about how their efforts at purity are not valued or appreciated by many...

The Mustache of Understanding has a new term. He defines online jihad recruitment as ‘Virtual Afghanistan.’ Apparently, the bad guys are no longer recruiting people to go to Chechnya, Kashmir, Iraq, and Afghanistan...

Setting aside the merits of the Senate health care reform bill for a moment, I think it’s almost funny to watch the people who fought so hard to see that Harry Reid include an opt-out public option in the base bill prior...