Monica Potts

The Christian Science Monitor tells us that Scott Brown is signing is autographs with “41,” but also that he’s open to working with Democrats too. He has an independent record in Massachusetts,” says campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstom. “He knows how to work with the other side. Brown says that he wants to serve on Senate […]

Among the many memes to crop up after the Massachusetts victory of Republican Scott Brown — the Cassandra-like calls that health care is doomed, the Democrats were too progressive, the Democrats were not progressive enough — is that the special election was a wake-up call to focus on jobs instead of health care. From the […]

Cindy McCain apparently supports marriage equality, posing for the group NOH8, which her daughter Meghan McCain has also supported. Mrs. McCain appears with silver duct tape across her mouth and “NOH8” written on one cheek in a photo posted Wednesday to the Web site of NOH8, a gay rights group opposed to Proposition 8. The […]

One of the most surprising things about the Royal Caribbean cruise visit to Labadee is that company officials apparently spent a long time thinking about it, according to Advertising Age. ‘This is a massive debacle and shows absolutely horrible judgment,’ said a high-ranking PR executive at a global firm that has worked with travel and […]

Jonah Golberg has a great idea for how best to help Haiti. So stop your measly text donations now and give Haiti some “tough love.” Golberg doesn’t spell out a tough love prescription, but it must have something to do with correcting the lack of work ethic he sees in Haiti’s “poverty culture.” Even if […]

A Pennsylvania mom who sued after her son’s school did not allow her to read a Bible passage to his class will not have her case heard by the Supreme Court. The reading was to be part of an in-class assignment in which the children were invited to present important aspects of their lives to […]

The Massachusetts election of a Republican to Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat is going to be presented as a referendum on health care, which is odd for a state that currently has the only universal health care system in the country. And one that is very similar to the national proposal. But if you look at […]

On Friday, the Department of Energy announced that $37 million from the stimulus would go toward research and development projects for LEDs, the lighting normally found in TVs and computer screens that could also be used as more efficient home lighting. From the New York Times’s Green Inc. blog: This is the sixth round of […]

More than two years ago, two parolees allegedly broke into a Cheshire, Connecticut, home and brutally murdered the family inside; only the father survived. Among the many efforts afterward to address the crime, Connecticut’s General Assembly passed a law making home invasion — entering an occupied home with the intent to commit a crime — […]

The Supreme Court decided to hear a case Friday to determine whether the names of those who signed a petition supporting a referendum to overturn a Washington state law extending marriage benefits to same-sex couples should be released to the public. The petitioners say they have had threats made against them. In taking the Washington […]