Author: BooMan

Politico wisdom: For the past couple of decades, the most successful national Democrats have been practitioners of defensive politics. These candidates practiced the politics of reassurance — letting independent voters know that...

The Senate failed to invoke cloture and vote on the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007. The tally was 57-42, with Sen. Byrd not voting. The bill would add one seat in the House of Representatives for the people...

In 1997, Dallas Morning News columnist Lee Cullum wrote the following for David L. Boren’s book Preparing America’s Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century, in a chapter called The Media and International...

Who’s afraid of Tavis Smiley? Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has become the fourth leading GOP presidential candidate to shun the PBS debate this month at a historically black college in Baltimore, the Huffington...

Who’s afraid of Tavis Smiley? Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has become the fourth leading GOP presidential candidate to shun the PBS debate this month at a historically black college in Baltimore, the Huffington...