Author: BooMan

Mitch McConnell Goes Nuclear, Again

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved toward using the nuclear option reluctantly, haltingly, and with baby steps that provided plenty of warning. After Barack Obama was elected president but before he was sworn in in...

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Trump Has No Plan for Central America

In order for President Trump’s new plan to curb Central American immigration to be effective, the governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador will have to respond to the loss of $450 million in aid by making drastic...

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Democrats Talking Antitrust and Agriculture

My brother helped set up the Iowa Heartland Forum which you can stream at Huffington Post. HuffPost is teaming up Saturday with Open Markets, as well as the Iowa Farmers Union and the Storm Lake Times, for the Heartland Forum, a...

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Wanker of the Day: Sen. Mike Lee

The associate attorney general position is the number three spot in the hierarchy at the Department of Justice. There has not been a Senate-confirmed person in that job since February 2018, when Rachel Brand left the...

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