Author: BooMan

How to Wank, by the Politico

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...

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Voting Rights for DC Filibustered

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...

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Take My Brother-in-Law, Please

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...

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State of the GOP

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...

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State of the GOP

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...

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