Author: BooMan

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson

Mayor Anderson makes the case for impeachment: Impeachment of the President of the United States is not to be undertaken, as in the case of Andrew Johnson, simply because of partisan disagreements regarding policies or...

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Hillary and Bill

Connie Bruck has a huge piece on the Clintons in The New Yorker. It has a lot of anecdotal information and it is a pretty good read. There is a segment of the article that focuses on Bill Clinton’s biggest political defeat...

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GOP Reaches New Anti-Labor Heights

The House just passed the Employee Free Choice Act (.pdf summary). The vote was 230-195, with eight members not voting. The act is basically a pro-union bill that makes it easier for workers to unionize and punishes companies...

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Open Thread

From the Rubber Hose, things that are annoying. …who decided that fancy brands of tea bags should no longer have strings? it seems that the more expensive and highfalutin a teabag is, the less likely it is that it will...

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Those That Got Iraq Wrong

It’s really amusing to read Lincoln Chafee’s scolding NYT’s editorial, taking to task all the Senate’s presidential contenders for voting against the Levin Amendment to the Authorization for Use of...

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