Author: BooMan

There is definitely a much different feel to the conference in DC than the conference in Vegas. The DC crowd is much more ethnically diverse. It has a much bigger focus on single issues (all the groups are here). There are...

The courts can’t put an end to illegal domestic surveillance of American citizens, the government argues, because the government cannot defend itself without jeopardizing national security. …the lawyer [said],...

I’m sitting in a room with a few hundred citizen activists, citizen journalists, progressive authors, labor organizers, the Hip Hop caucus, radio broadcasters, the National Organization for Women. They’re here to...

I’m back from Yearly Kos. I have to find a way to fall asleep fast because I have to get up early and get on a train for Washington DC. I’ll be at the Take America Back 2006 conference Monday-Wednesday. Before I go...

I’ll admit that the Yearly Kos convention-goers make an easy target for ridicule. We’re old, we dress kind of funny, we’re a little geeky about computers, and political junkies of any persuasion are always a...