Author: BooMan

In what is probably a coincidence, the New York Times and the Washington Post each ran articles Monday on how the Republican Party is now more firmly than ever the Party of Trump. However, the articles differ from each other in...

This is an important Twitter thread on the Wisconsin Republicans’s plan to commit a series of atrocities against democracy next week. BREAKING—as in breaking democracy: a truly shocking & naked power grab underway in...

Let’s dispense with the good/shitty by comparison way of judging or memorializing former presidents. Shitty presidents are shitty presidents, and we usually have shitty presidents. When they die, we shouldn’t say...

The patriarch is dead. Mr. Bush was barely brushed by Iran-contra, the major scandal of the Reagan presidency. He said he had been “out of the loop” when decisions were made to sell military equipment to Tehran to gain the...

Obviously, the House Democrats can pass anything they want in the next Congress but unless it is linked to must-pass legislation, they don’t have a prayer of compelling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to consider...