Author: BooMan

The wildfires are really out of control.

Russ Feingold, commenting on the Senate floor today…the fifth anniversary of Congress’s passage of the Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq. “I will not stand idly by while this mistaken war continues. I will...

If you were concerned that the Connecticut for Lieberman Party was going to double in size, fear not. Bob Kerrey has announced that he will not be running for senator from Nebraska. He sent out a press release: I have decided I...

Back in the summer of 1988 I was sitting on a boathouse deck on Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks reading the New York Times. There was an article about the potential vice-presidential picks for George Herbert Walker Bush. It...

A quick look at the parties’ fundraising numbers shows that there is little for the Republicans to celebrate. Their recruitment is appalling. The current composition of the House of Representative is 233 Democrats, 200...