Author: BooMan

A Glimpse Inside the Spy World

The useful thing about Prof. Joseph Mifsud is that we know he was a Russian spy simply by how he handled George Papadapoulos. We don’t need to question this, although it’d be nice to know his exact arrangement with...

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Suburban Philly Republicans in Freefall

It’s going to be easier than I thought to clean Republicans out of the Philadelphia suburbs. Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress,...

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Casual Observation

It’s true. One lesson from the 2013 government shutdown is that no one really remembered it when it came time to vote in the 2014 midterms. It might have even helped the Republicans by satisfying their base that they were...

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Should Trump Soften His Tone?

I’d like to add something to Paul Waldman’s excellent analysis of the differential in the intensity gap between Republican and Democratic voters. Waldman notes that for every American who strongly supports the...

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