Author: BooMan

I watched the speech tonight and afterwards I participated in a conference call with the White House. Dan Pfeiffer, the White House deputy communications director, fielded our questions. So, what did I learn? Number one, I...

When the speech is over people are probably going to say it was a great speech. Obama gives great speeches. But a speech isn’t going to change much. What we’d really like is some guidance on how to fight for this...

From the Mustache of Understanding’s column: “Globalization has neutered the Republican Party, leaving it to represent not the have-nots of the recession but the have-nots of globalized America, the people who have been...

If you are 25 years old, underemployed, and in good health, are you going to buy health insurance if it costs you several thousand dollars a year? Well, how about if the price of not buying it is a substantial fine? More...

McClatchy’s Jonathan S. Landay definitely earned his paycheck yesterday. And we almost lost one of our very best reporters in an Afghanistan ambush that left four U.S. Marines and several Afghan forces dead. The whole...