Politics

In 2006 Massachusetts progressives carried a sub-prime mortgage lender to victory in the state’s gubernatorial election, essentially heralding the collapse of the mortgage bubble. One wonders what disaster their choice of candidate in the senate race will foretell?

Not so natural conservatives. Can somebody tell Karl Rove?

That “all the rational people” supported President-elect Barack Obama in the 2008 election was one of Jack Beatty’s main points at the post-election forum I attended last month. The specific people he was referring to were hedge fund managers, that is, people like Bernard Madoff and his customers.
[Saturday morning update:Today's Boston Globe has an article [...]

Last night I attended a forum of sorts where Jack Beatty (whose work at NPR and The Atlantic you or may not be familiar with) was the featured speaker and the audience had a decidedly left-ward tilt.
The near consensus was that:
1) The real John McCain would have been a wonderful candidate but the guy who [...]

Barack Obama’s victory speech certainly didn’t give any hints about what policies he will pursue as President of the United States of America.
I don’t know about you but I thought the potential power of the moment was weakened by the fact that he’s been almost a shoo-in to win ever since he got a commanding [...]

One of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign ads claim that Senator John McCain offers no tax relief for 101 million families.
According to the the United Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2007 there were 112 million households in America last year, 75 million of which were family households, 35 million of which had children under the [...]

Are we still far away enough from the presidential election to be allowed to criticize a politician without violating McCain-Feingold? Probably not, so let me say this: I hope Hillary Clinton is the next President of the United States of America.

One of the most annoying commentaries about Senator Barack Obama campaign is that if he wins the election people around the world will take a more favorable view of the United States. Seth Gitell gives you good reason - if you needed any - to think that that brave new world probably wouldn’t come about [...]

A couple of years ago I called casino gambling in Massachusetts a no brainer, but Governor Deval Patrick’s administration has allegedly put a lot of head into it.
This might actually be the best part, quoting The Boston Globe: “[The Patrick aide] helped draft Patrick’s casino bill.” Only the bill is a poorly thought out [...]

A common argument against enforcement of immigration laws is that it is impossible or at least hopelessly impractical to deport all 12-20 million illegal aliens. The retort is that it isn’t necessary to deport them all, most of them will leave on their own volition if enforcement is stepped up. There are reasons to believe [...]