Author: BooMan

Black Voting Rights are a Joke to GOP

When I was in high school in the 1980’s, we were taught that the Lincoln-Douglas debates were a standard for high-minded political debate, and in more recent years I’ve seen them mentioned favorably in comparison to...

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Dems Claim a Seat Thanks to Ranked-Choice Voting

Not infrequently, a Republican or Democratic candidate for office loses by a narrow margin and people point at a third party candidate who is supposedly to blame. For Republicans, this is usually a Libertarian who got more votes...

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House Republicans Build a New Team

While most of the political world was focused on supposed disarray within the House Democratic caucus as they prepare to decide whether Nancy Pelosi will have a second go-round as Speaker, the House Republicans actually held...

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The GOP Evolved to Oppose, Not to Govern

By the time Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House in 1995, the House Republicans had spent sixty-two years in the minority, with the exception of two single-session majorities they gained after the 1946 and 1952 elections....

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Trump Won’t Take North Korean Threat Seriously

On Monday, the New York Times reported that North Korea “is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images.” Today, the president of...

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