Author: BooMan

What Do We Make of Trump’s Strange Behavior?

I read a lot so sometimes I’ll forget where I saw something. The other day I noticed someone make the observation that one reason it’s hard to get good electoral reform is that the winners of elections are always...

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Casual Observation

Because, of course he does: The hard-charging New York lawyer President Trump chose to represent him in the Russia investigation has prominent clients with ties to the Kremlin, a striking pick for a president trying to escape...

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Donald Trump and His Tapes

Prompted in part by former FBI director James Comey’s testimony and in part by statements and tweets made by President Trump, both the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee sent out requests for...

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Casual Observation

If Sam Ervin were alive today, he could say exactly what he said in 1973 at the outset of the televised Watergate hearings: “If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the...

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Cleaning Up Trump’s Qatar Mess

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when someone, I’m not sure who, drew the short straw and had to explain to President Trump that Al Udeid Air Base is located in Qatar and houses around 10,000 American soldiers....

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