Author: BooMan

Google Causes a Bloodletting at New America

I’ll try to remain somewhat calm and dispassionate here, but I kind of doubt that will be possible: The New America Foundation has received more than $21 million from Google; its parent company’s executive chairman,...

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Trump Likes to Dig Deep Holes for Himself

There is no doubt some ideological component that helps explain why the Trump administration has made so few appointments and seen so few confirmations of people to fill out their government. But the fuller story is one of lack...

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Trump Has Been Lying About Sater and Russia

I wrote most comprehensively about Felix Sater in a piece we published in February called Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, and Russian Intelligence and in an April piece entitled Trump, Felix Sater, and the FBI. I also mentioned...

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Trump Waddles Towards the Thresher Blades

One week ago, I wrote a piece called September Will Be a Meat Grinder in which I explained (once again) that the Republicans will need to, among other things, avoid a government shutdown, raise the borrowing limit, and pass a...

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