Author: BooMan

Swatting Flies

Trump refuses to debate on Fox News tonight, so Ted Cruz challenges him to a series of mano a mano debates. Trump thinks about this for three seconds, and comes back… This is like swatting flies. The Democrats better have...

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Oblivious Fiorina

When you’re trying to convince Iowa Republicans to come out in the cold and spend some time caucusing for you, it makes a certain amount of sense to say that you’re the most anti-abortion, anti-Planned Parenthood...

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A Look at What Has Happened to Greece

In the January/February issue of our magazine, president elect of the Association for Evolutionary Economics James Galbraith has a review of James Angelos’s new book: The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek...

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The Regrettable Loss of Life in Oregon

There are a couple of firsthand accounts of what happened yesterday out in Oregon and how Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum wound up getting shot and killed. The accounts differ substantially. I’ve seen a lot of emotional...

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The Sanders/Clinton Electability Argument

Back in June 2012, Eric Benson sat down with Michael Dukakis in anticipation for that year’s heated general election campaign. They discussed the role of negative political advertising, and when you’re talking on...

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