Well, you have to hand it to him -- Lynch has not only committed to climbing out on that limb, but he's taking a saw to cut it behind him. Earlier this evening, outside the House chamber, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) told AFL-CIO president … [Read more...]

Well, it is what it is. A squander of epic, nay, historic, proportions. We can mourn. We can point fingers. We can waste a lot of time and energy with an extended Night of the Long Knives. I prefer a fairly quiet post-mortem, then to begin … [Read more...]

I don't necessarily think of B-Mag as the place for hard-hitting journalism. However, the December issue certainly has an interesting summary/take-down on Coakley's campaign finances, which should not be ignored. It also answers the … [Read more...]

The carpetbagging wingnuts may be going down! Owens -- 49.1% Hoffman -- 45.4% Scozzafava -- 5.5% … [Read more...]

I just saw Pags' latest commercial, focusing on his work as MSPCC's chairman. Now, it's a great organization doing important work, and it's nice to know he's given them a ton of cash and all that. But my lawyer-brain kicked in when I saw … [Read more...]

When you're busy making tons of cash and buying the Celtics, who has time to do pesky little things like, well, vote? http://www.thebostonchannel.co... If you don't get the Meg Whitman reference, check out http://voices.washingtonpost.c... … [Read more...]

http://www.boston.com/business... The boycott is on! … [Read more...]

Interesting little side story -- the Matt Santos character on West Wing was directly based on Obama! Politico has a nice interview with Jimmy Smits on seeing his character's story playing out in real time. http://www.politico.com/news/s... … [Read more...]

http://www.statesman.com/news/... Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the … [Read more...]