Author: BooMan

McConnell Reverses Himself on Show Votes

This is a relatively minor example of hypocrisy, but it’s worth pointing out because we’re completely deluged with small examples of hypocrisy, and it all adds up over time to create a crisis of cynicism and lack of...

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Trump Not Cleared By Senate Intel

On Sunday, President Trump began boasting that he’d been cleared by the Senate Intelligence Committee of any wrongdoing in the 2016 election. “Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,...

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The Billionaires Waited Too Long to Panic

The billionaires have been looking around for someone with the credentials of a Douglas MacArthur or a Dwight Eisenhower because, just as the Republican Party of 1952 was about as useful as teets on a bull, the contemporary...

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The Democrats Have All the Leverage

It’s beginning to look more and more like we might be headed toward another partial government shutdown on Friday, as congressional negotiators are at an impasse. The Democrats are offering a pittance of extra funding ($2...

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A Good But Timid Profile of Michael Cohen

You can read about the May 4, 1985 murder of Russian-American mob boss Evsei Agron here. He was gunned down as he waited for the elevator in his own apartment building by “a man wearing a jogging suit and sunglasses [who]...

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