Author: BooMan

Open Thread

Maybe it might be a good idea to have the lights work when you play baseball at night. The folks that run Coors field might consider it. The wrong team has so far won every single playoff game. It’s irritating.

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Rep. Jo Ann Davis Dies

Rep. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia’s First District has passed away from breast cancer, according to Roll Call. My sympathies go out to her friends and family. In a somewhat classless move, her 2006 opponent released the...

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Women Suffer in the Congo

Things are not pretty in the Congo: BUKAVU, Congo — Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore. Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at...

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GOP’s Tax Message Wearing Thin

Stephen Moore, writing in the Wall Street Journal, discovers that people actually kind of hate Republicans and don’t buy their empty rhetoric about tax cuts. A few weeks ago Republican leaders gathered on Capitol Hill to...

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How It’s Done…by the Progressive Caucus

Steny Hoyer got his ass handed to him by the Progressive Causus. He had to cancel a press conference announcing a total cave-in to the president on the FISA law because of this… Progressive Caucus Official Position and...

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