Author: BooMan

The President Can’t Console

If you want to know why I am worried about how the president will behave today in Las Vegas, all you have to do is look at the reaction he got after his trip to Puerto Rico. His supporters applauded again, pointing to his...

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A Political Meltdown in Trump Country

Joseph Cao served in Congress from January 3, 2009 to January 3, 2011. He represented Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district, which contains nearly of the city of New Orleans. The Big Easy is a very Democratic town, but...

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Why the GOP Won’t Do Anything About Guns

Charles C.W. Cooke of the National Review provides us with an interesting exercise in logic. He notes in somewhat of a relieved tone that the suspect in the Las Vegas shooting “wasn’t a felon — or, at least,...

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Please Contest the Alabama Senate Race

On a day like today, I don’t much want to write about electoral politics or anything else. So this will be brief. In Alabama, we have on the one side a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Doug Jones, who is best...

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