Author: BooMan

Soldiers Want Out of Iraq

Ha ha ha: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the congressman from the Houston area who opposes the Iraq war, has gotten more contributions than any other White House contender from donors identified as affiliated with...

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Dodd: Good News on a Bad Day

If you are tired of losing, today has not been a good day. First we learned that Sen. Jay Rockefeller bent over and asked Cheney to do him sans lube, then we lost the S-CHIP override. But there is good news. Armando started it...

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Crooked Hastert Calling it Quits

You know it’s bad when you’d rather quit Congress than stick it out until the next election. Apparently, Denny Hastert can’t take it anymore. Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is expected to announce that...

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The War on Women Continues

I can’t think of an issue in the so-called culture war that is less controversial than contraception. I have never met anyone, anywhere, in any context that expressed the view that the availability of contraceptions for...

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Attack on the Fairness Doctrine?

The Republicans are so convinced that they are going to lose HUGE in 2008 that they are beginning to take precautionary measures. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) is trying to force a vote to officially do away with the Fairness...

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