Author: BooMan

There are two hearings this morning. The Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, is holding a hearing on The CBO Budget and Economic Outlook. Probably more interesting is the nomination hearing for...

Back when Al Gore was running against George W. Bush, I wasn’t very enthusiastic about Gore. And I knew a lot of people that couldn’t see much difference between them. I struggled to explain just how evil Bush and...

We’ve become accustomed to the Republicans voting in lockstep and I think many of us just cannot emotionally compute a future where the old paradigms are broken down. It’s true that the Republicans, as a party, are...

MSNBC reports that Joe the Plumber is heading to Israel to ‘report’ on the War in Gaza.

Steve Coll is a smart dude and an outstanding author. (Disclosure: I interviewed with him for a job in August 2008). He knows the Intelligence Community very, very well. Coll doesn’t think Leon Panetta is the right man for...