Author: BooMan

Time Does Not Heal All Wounds

Not too long after I graduated from high school in 1987, I moved to California. Soon after, an old girlfriend decided to join me. We broke up after a bit, she moved back East and eventually I came back East, too. Our...

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Is Ted Cruz in Real Peril or Not?

It may seem counterintuitive, but I believe that the Republicans’ big upset victory yesterday in a special election to fill a seat in the Texas Senate is bad news for Ted Cruz. The Democrats lost the supposedly safe San...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Awful Character Witness

It’s very unfortunate for Brett Kavanaugh that the only person in the world besides himself and Christine Blasey Ford who might know with certainty what happened in that Montgomery County, Maryland bedroom 36 years ago is...

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Chuck Grassley is Bullying Christine Blasey Ford

It’s instructive to see how different people are responding to the allegation of attempted rape that has been leveled against Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. Yesterday, Nancy noted that the spectacle...

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The Dems Really Could Win the Senate

If we push the forecasts in the classic version of FiveThirtyEight’s Senate forecast, it has every Democratic incumbent winning reelection, while the Democrats knock off Dean Heller in Nevada and pick up Jeff Flake’s...

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