Author: BooMan

The Republican Death Spiral

I didn’t know until today that when columnist Robert Novak tarred George McGovern as the candidate of legalized pot, draft amnesty and legal abortion (later alliterated to acid, amnesty and abortion) that his source was...

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It’s Not About Centrism vs. Progressivism

Matt Taibbi makes one unassailable point in his latest piece for Rolling Stone. Whenever the Republicans lose they say that their candidates were insufficiently conservative and whenever the Democrats lose the media say that the...

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Zoe Lofgren’s Moment Has Arrived

There are a lot of committees in the U.S. House of Representatives. Some are very prestigious. The Ways & Means Committee handles taxes and entitlements. The Finance Committee oversees Wall Street. The Judiciary Committee...

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Trump’s Sociopathy is Becoming Our Own

Back on October 10, Matt Zapotosky and Josh Dawsey of the Washington Post reported that President Trump was in discussions with Jeff Sessions’s chief of staff Matt Whitaker about possibly replacing his boss as Attorney...

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