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Hey, it’s been nice having y’all here in the Commonwealth, God save it. Can y’all please go home now? It’s not that we mind having people wandering through Old North Church wearing sequined donkeys on their heads. We enjoy it. We encourage it. We teach it in our schools. Just ask Joe Scarborough, who wonders […]

Is it a huge surprise that American multitudes say they don’t know what John Kerry and the Democrats stand for? How would they know? And who bears responsibility? First point about the attention that’s being paid: An ABC representative took to The New York Times (July 28) to brag that the network had made the […]

Sunday morning’s guardians of American virtue helpfully prepared a presumably pre-jaded people for the Democratic national convention by asking the questions that burn in the hearts of ordinary Americans. Wasn’t it a thrill to hear Cokie Roberts ask John Edwards how he was going to explain his positions on repealing tax cuts for billionaires to […]

Bill Clinton’s address Monday night had to be one of best political speeches I’ve ever heard him — or anyone — give. He managed to be both masterful and self-deprecating. The riff about George W. Bush cutting this program and that program so that Clinton, the nouveau riche, could keep his tax cut was just […]

Apparently comfortable with the moral cesspool into which he wandered during the Abu Ghraib hearings, Senator Joe Lieberman announced in a July 20 Washington Post op-ed that he planned to join with the least reputable figures in national-security circles to relaunch the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an organization not heard from since the […]

Apparently comfortable with the moral cesspool into which he wandered during the Abu Ghraib hearings, Senator Joe Lieberman announced in a July 20 Washington Post op-ed that he planned to join with the least reputable figures in national-security circles to relaunch the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an organization not heard from since the […]

Illinois Senate candidate and Democratic national convention keynote speaker Barack Obama sent his supporters, the Barack Brigade, an update around 1 p.m. Monday announcing that they’d get to preview his Tuesday-night floor speech at 4 this afternoon on his blog. “Please be sure to post your thoughts, because I can’t be your voice if I […]

Apparently comfortable with the moral cesspool into which he wandered during the Abu Ghraib hearings, Senator Joe Lieberman announced in a July 20 Washington Post op-ed that he planned to join with the least reputable figures in national-security circles to relaunch the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an organization not heard from since the […]

The Bush administration has a mantra that we hear whenever some jobs are created: “The tax cuts are working.” But are they? Mark Zandi, president of Economy.com and a highly respected economic forecaster, gave us the answer in a new report analyzing the factors in the past three years of growth; the administration’s tax cuts, […]

While Democratic delegates and party notables are attending receptions and visiting Boston’s sights, fund-raisers for independent-expenditure committees are trawling for dollars. The McCain-Feingold bill of 2002 really did transform politics, though not in a way that anybody predicted. It ended the era of unlimited donations to parties, while permitting endless donations to independent groups. (These […]