Author: BooMan

Other countries have nationalized oil industries and they get quite wealthy when energy is expensive and profitable. We do not have such a system. Despite a drop in its fourth-quarter earnings and collapsing oil prices, Exxon...

The House Republicans seem to have three talking points. Here they are: “We have fundamental philosophical differences. We’re in an era of unfunded liabilities,” said John Culberson , R-Texas. “This stimulus is really a Trojan...

Despite his hardscrabble upbringing, Joe Biden is often justly criticized for putting credit card companies’ interests in front of the interests of consumers. Biden is praised for spearheading the Violence Against Women...

Today, David Sirota continued his psychedelic pony-ride and, this time, his criticism was actually on target. Anyone who argues, seriously, that playing nice with the Republicans will get them to support the Employee Free Choice...

Greenwald is really losing it. According to him, Obama is a loser because Dick Armey is from Texas. Yes, I know, that does not make sense. Nonetheless, that’s the logical construction that Greenwald lays out. See, Dick...