Author: BooMan

Part of the split you are seeing right now in the progressive blogosphere over the fate of the public option is actually less than meets the eye. You have some people who are trying to provide detached analysis (here, here,...

When the Department of Homeland Security released their report (PDF) on the threat of domestic terrorism, many on the Right took offense and actually self-identified with the right-wing extremist groups described in the...

Let me take another bite at this apple. Look at this statement from a Republican. Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, a medical doctor, called “simply false.” the notion that there are only two choices – between...

One of the difficulties with writing about the health care debate in this country is figuring out what scale you want to use to examine it. A lot of people are looking at the art of negotiation. For example, it’s pretty...

It’s a long, but beautiful, drive from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. I have just completed the trip and will write a few pieces over the next few days about what I saw and learned at the Netroots Nation conference. I am very...