Author: BooMan

House Budget Negotiations Come to Nothing

Back on September 12th, when I wrote Tax Reform and the Politics of Tennessee, I noted that House Budget Committee chairwoman Diane Black was delaying her plans to run for governor in order to hammer out a deal on the budget...

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The Trump Town That Banned Dancing

If the town of Pound, Virginia is famous for anything, it’s their ordinance against dancing that was overturned by a federal District Court Judge in 1999. The judge found that you couldn’t even put on The Nutcracker...

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Find Out What Makes People Wince

On Sunday, the New York Times ran a piece on the voters in Terre Haute and Vigo County, Indiana. The area has the distinction of picking every presidential winner since the beginning of the 20th Century except Dwight Eisenhower...

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GOP and Dems Have Different Problems

The two parties are not mirror images of each other. The Democrats can’t raise money for the DNC but individual candidates and the DSCC and DCCC are performing very well. Meanwhile, the president is raising a ton of money...

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