Author: BooMan

First Read has a mini-analysis of the 2010 House races. It’s not overly interesting, but it does correctly note that the only president since World War Two not lose House seats in their first post-inauguration election was...

The last vote the House took before their August recess was on the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act (PDF). It passed 237-185. The bill gave shareholders an advisory vote on CEO compensation. Sixteen...

This is your Senate Finance Committee: These people have jurisdiction over major elements of the health care bill that is being crafted in the Senate. As the name of the committee suggests, their primary jurisdiction is over how...

Thurman Munson died thirty years ago today. Any boy with an interest in sports who lived in the New York Metropolitan area during the 1970’s knows what it meant when Thurman’s Cessna crashed at the Akron-Canton...

There used to be a character on the Ally McBeal show who would do phenomenally inappropriate and inconsiderate things. When people would call him on his actions, he’d shrug and say, “Bygones,” as if the injured party was harping...