Author: BooMan

Obama’s Sends in the Volunteers

Obama is sending 3,600 newly trained volunteers into 17 swing states for six weeks of unpaid organizing work. That’s an average of 212 trained field workers per state. The 3,600 were selected from an applicant field of...

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The New Southern Populism

A strange thing is happening in the South. When Don Cazayoux and Travis Childers won their special elections in, respectively, Louisiana and Mississippi, the Republicans complained that they they ran as Republicans. This...

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Serious Question

There are many ways to set up a national security team. And we have some relatively recent examples that can serve as archetypes. In Eisenhower’s administration, the most powerful force in international affairs (after the...

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U.S. South: Open Discussion

There’s going to be a recount, but it appears that this guy came out of nowhere to win the Democratic primary to take on Lindsey Graham.

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