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BooMan wrote a new post, Democrats Need to Educate People About Kansas, on the site Progress Pond 6 hours, 21 minutes ago

I was hoping someone would take a careful look at how Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s experiment in Voodoo Economics has worked out for his state, and Justin Miller at The American Prospect has granted my […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Governors Led the Revolt Against GOP Health Care Bill, on the site Progress Pond 15 hours, 28 minutes ago

In the New York Times, reporter Alexander Burns does a nice job of detailing how a bipartisan group of governors, led by Republican John Kasich of Ohio and Democrat John Hickenlooper of Colorado, teamed up to kill […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Why the Dems Cannot Win, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 3 days ago

The Democrats and their two independent allies, Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, currently hold 48 out of the 52 seats in the U.S. Senate. It should be relatively easy, considering President […]

BooMan wrote a new post, No One Answers Trump’s Help Wanted Sign, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 3 days ago

How do you know that the Trump administration can’t find many qualified people to work for them?
“I have people knocking down my door to talk to the presidential personnel office,” said White House press sec […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Compare How the ACA and ACHA Were Created, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 5 days ago

On July 15th, 2009, I wrote a piece at my home blog Booman Tribune called Watching Health Care Get Built. It was a detailed recap of the experience I had on the previous day watching on CSPAN2 as the Senate’s […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The Republicans Have No Workable Plan for the Debt Ceiling, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 5 days ago

The Washington Post headline is direct enough: White House without a plan to address debt ceiling. The debt ceiling may be far from the sexiest news item available to write about right now, but it’s important […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Vladimir Putin Would Have James Comey Killed, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 6 days ago

Under the leadership of Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union’s internal security services were led by a People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs. Two of the most famous Commissars were Nikolai Yezhov and […]

BooMan wrote a new post, How to Get Out of an Unholy Alliance, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 6 days ago

I am trying to think of some political alliances that haven’t worked out so well. Here are a few that come to mind:

The Sauds’ decision to team up with Wahhabi preachers gave them legitimacy and made it […]

brendan wrote a new post, Reaping what you sow, on the site Still Calling 2 weeks ago

Ted Nugent, threatening to assassinate Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to a crowd of thousands:

Rand Paul, on the true meaning of the Second Amendment:

Sarah Palin, Republican vice-presidential […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Fox News Drops Claim to Be Fair and Balanced, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks ago

The rise of Donald Trump has been almost as disruptive to Fox News as it has been for the country and the world. Add in the disgrace and death of Roger Ailes, the firing of Bill O’Reilly, and the departure of Fox […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Northam and Gillespie to Face Off in Virginia, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks ago

Before the polls opened in Virginia yesterday, Harry Enten of 538 went over what the polling data indicated might happen and admitted that it was hard to say. On the Democratic side, the average of polls showed a […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Failed American Leadership is Isolating Taiwan, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Last summer when the Democratic National Convention seemed to be overwhelmed by protesters carrying anti-TPP signs, leaders in Taiwan were thinking seriously about what steps and maneuvers they’d need to make into […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Firing Mueller: Living in a Bubble is Dangerous, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Remember on Election Day when Princeton professor and poll analyst Sam Wang gave Hillary Clinton a 93% chance of winning and pegged the most probable Electoral College results as Clinton 323, Trump 215? It’s easy […]

brendan wrote a new post, Omar, on the site Still Calling 2 weeks, 1 day ago

My friend Omar killed himself.

Many residents who grew close to him considered him family. They recounted his encyclopedic knowledge of film, his affection for pets and for walking dogs, and his repertoire […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The Question I Want Jeff Sessions to Answer, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks, 2 days ago

I was thinking of compiling a list of questions for members of the Senate Intelligence Committee to ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he testifies before them tomorrow afternoon, but then I noticed that […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The Georgia 6th Special Doesn’t Matter That Much, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks, 2 days ago

There’s a lot in D.R. Tucker’s weekend column on the special election in Georgia’s 6th congressional district that I don’t agree with, but there’s one thing that I think he is definitely right about. If Karen […]

brendan wrote a new post, Odds and ends, on the site Still Calling 2 weeks, 3 days ago

It’s a lazy-ish Sunday, and I’m overdue for a little writing, but not up for some long involved piece.

NEWS ITEM: Ever since mentioning my purchase of a vintage safety razor, my buddy Buddy has been pushing me […]

BooMan wrote a new post, What Do We Make of Trump’s Strange Behavior?, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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 […]