Author: BooMan

Have you ever met a genuine New Yorker? I don’t mean the type that went to elite private schools and lives in a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side. I mean the kind of New Yorker who grew up in a tough neighborhood,...

I miss Joe the Plumber.

While it’s not a totally done deal yet, it’s beginning to look like Harry Reid will have unanimity in the Democratic Caucus for introducing the health care bill. If true, this would mean that one of the biggest...

The National Security Archive has a large document dump on U.S.-Taliban relations and intelligence reports from the Clinton administration. It’s worth wading through if you want to learn more about the challenges...

When a prognosticator as good as Nate Silver bets money that, not only will Sarah Palin run for the Republican nomination for president in 2012, but that she will win it, you have to take that seriously. In the linked piece,...