Author: BooMan

Trump Makes 3 Catastrophic Picks

Donald Trump’s transition may have started off slowly but it’s coming at us fast now. He’s announced Mike Flynn as his National Security Advisor, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as his Attorney General and...

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The Freedom Caucus’s Conundrum

Is Jennifer Rubin correct that Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan will “clip the wings of the Freedom Caucus”? In some ways, it appears unavoidable. Trump wants to immediately do away with the Defense...

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Pete Hoekstra for CIA Director?

Given the following, I guess we’re going to have to talk about Pete Hoekstra: Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, an ex-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that he would accept the job of CIA director if it...

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Diane Feinstein Will Lead Dem SCOTUS Fight

In the last Congress, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont had the option to serve as the ranking member of Appropriations or Judiciary. He chose to take that role on the Judiciary committee which graciously allowed Sen. Barbara...

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Responding to Rural America

When I saw the election results, particularly when I saw the distribution of the vote, I immediately thought of former Virginia Senator Jim Webb. As a kind of self-appointed ambassador to the Scots-Irish hill people diaspora,...

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