Author: BooMan

So Much for the Uranium One Story

If I had to identify my greatest shortcoming as a blogger and an analyst, I’d say it was my refusal to consume right-wing media. By keeping myself walled off from their obsessions, I don’t always sufficiently...

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How Stormy Daniels Explains Russian Collusion

There’s a certain prurient attraction to the Stormy Daniels story but also a sense in which relatively view people care because they’ve already internalized all the lessons the affair can teach them. That Trump...

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Another Former Russian Spy Falls Ill

The Kremlin appears to have struck again, this time using a nerve agent in an attempted murder of a former Russian intelligence officer. The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was deliberately poisoned with a nerve agent in a...

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Soledad O’Brien Rips Chris Cillizza

Longtime readers of my blog know that I am not a member of the Chris Cillizza fan club, but I don’t think I’ve been as succinct in my criticism as Cillizza’s CNN colleague Soledad O’Brien was last night....

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Why is the GOP Spending So Much on PA-18?

A week from today, there will be a special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District and the Republicans are spending like mad to win it. I could give you a long drawn out description of the candidates and the...

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