Brian McGrory, Boston Globe columnist, gets it absolutely right todaywhile writing about Matt Amorello’s continuing fall from grace. Thecolumn is a little too maudlin and finger-pointy for my tastes but themain theme is dead on target: Massachusetts…

Recently, my partner at Clean Sweep asked me what I thought about thisidea: Could the whole Obamacare debacle be nothing more than trying tosolve the health care crisis exacerbated by illegal aliens filling upthe emergency rooms? I told him I…

Harry Truman was a colorful president, to say the least. He wasdefinitely the sort of person that tales and legends grow from but thisone, at least, has photographic evidence: a sign boldly stating “Thebuck stops here” on one side (“I’m from…

The end result is that an elected official is expected to follow theparty line, regardless of use for the constituency, or else “bad” thingswill happen. I don’t know about you, but I like to look at candidateswho roughly follow my way of thinking…

Our esteemed State Senate President, Therese Murray had a bright ideaabout a month ago. She thought it’d be a swell idea to get some localhospitals to kick in some money that could then go to businessesstruggling to keep up with the constantly…

Eleven out of the thirteen members of the council thought that pledgingblind for re-election was a better idea than carefully and judiciouslyexamining the mayor’s proposed budget. Think about that for a moment.Those eleven members sided with a…

Did I wake up in Massachusetts this morning? I went to bed there butseem to have woken in Never-Never Land or Bizarro World or some suchoddity. Not only is a politician on the front page of the BostonHerald and not facing indictment, it’s a…

The fact that Marx may have been correct in reverse has the potential tobe one of the greatest jokes in history. Too many good people aregetting needlessly punished through this mismanagement to make it funny,though.More thoughts . . .

Why are we arguing about party this and party that? The real question should be the human being we are voting for, not if they sport a "D" or an "R"!More . . .

Well of course it is, this is no Zen exercise about trees, woods, and other noises. If the VAT isn't the sneakiest, most underhanded, nastiest way to take money away from those that actually produce I guess I need to rethink some definitions.More

Not having grown up in New England, I thought of town meeting as aquaint, antiquated system that should have gone the way of thedinosaurs. Perhaps if it had, I thought, something useful like oilcould be produced; nothing useful could come from a…

The point is not that Lantigua has two jobs. Many people do. Whatreally matters is that he is going to continue his pattern of recklesslyself-serving behavior until he is forced to stop, at which point hewill undoubtedly claim persecution,…

What we do want is very simple: minimal government interference andmaximum assistance in living the best lives we can for ourselves, ourfamilies, and our communities. We want to help the people that needhelp, not those the government decides are…

We are all here because we are dissatisfied. It makes no difference if the person who feels that dissatisfaction is a Republican, Libertarian, or a Democrat because, first and foremost, we are Americans. We have a proud history of individualism and…

When is an increase a decrease? When the government says it is apparently. If Patrick needs some lessons in cutting perhaps he should take a trip to Detroit where the automakers became quite adept at the task until they learned that the federal…