Author: BooMan

A Novel Excuse for Lying

If a lie is egregious enough it has the potential to spawn its own meme and that was certainly the case with former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl’s epic performance in 2011. That year, Senator Kyl made a speech on the Senate...

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The Left Has No Answer to Wingnut Welfare

In the summer and fall of 2004, I was busy organizing Delaware and Montgomery counties in the Philadelphia suburbs. My employer was Project Vote through a partnership with ACORN, and yes a lot of the funding came from George...

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Trump is Trying to Corrupt the United Nations

TheĀ basic premiseĀ of the United Nations, according to the Trump administration, is that the U.S. spends a lot of money on the organization and in return we expect other members to vote the way we want them to vote. If they...

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Did the GOP Hurt Itself With the Tax Bill?

It’s well worth reading John Judis’s essay that raises doubt about how certain it is that the Republicans will suffer in the midterm elections, or even in 2020, due to the passage of their plutocratic tax bill. Even...

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