Author: BooMan

Proud to Rank Last

Proud to be an American: Amenable mortality measures “deaths from certain causes before age 75 that are potentially preventable with timely and effective health care,” such as treatable cancers, diabetes, and cardiovascular...

Read More

Playing Hardball

One way to play hardball is to ask all Democratic senators to vote for cloture on the health care bill or lose their chairs. So, Patty Murray would potentially replace Kent Conrad as the chair of the Committee on the Budget and...

Read More

Because the Government Lies

There’s another thing that Greenwald doesn’t mention. When it comes to starting wars, the history is fairly consistent. The Mexican-American War was launched after President Polk invaded Mexico. Here is how he...

Read More

We Were Justified

When it comes to the history of Bush Wars, I am not going to call out Mark Ambinder for special condemnation. I didn’t even know who he was until about 2007, so I am no expert on his failings as a journalist during the...

Read More

YouTube Thread

These guys probably didn’t even think it was a big deal to have Bob Dylan show up at their get together.

Read More