Author: BooMan

When I started working for ACORN in 2004, I was one of only four white people employed in their North Philadelphia office. The office was in a very run-down tenement on North Broad Street, abutted by an abandoned lot on one side...

Have I mentioned how much I hate the Baucus Plan? What I really hate is how politically stupid it is to even discuss forcing people to buy private health insurance at unaffordable prices. It’s bad enough to force people to...

Hey, I just turned 40 years old. I wasn’t always sure that I would make it.

When you are blinded by ideology, you can’t compute information like this: U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study...

While it might not be great from a partisan point of view, there is a good chance that the Senate will have more female representation in 2011 than it has now. In New Hampshire, the leading GOP contender is former Secretary of...