From the "Stories You Don't See Covered in The Boston Globe," or "Why We Live in a Bubble Even Though We Think We Are Well Informed" file:The ban on U.S. air force personnel entering London following last week's terror … [Read more...]
When Teddy smacked Ricky
Go Ted. Yesterday, on the floor of the Senate, Ted Kennedy delivered a rare - and well-deserved - personal rebuke to fellow Senator Rick Santorum for Santorum's outrageous comments regarding Boston and the Catholic Church sex abuse … [Read more...]
Rove, Plame, and espionage
There's been lots of yakkity-yak, here and elsewhere, about whether Karl Rove (or anyone else who leaked Valerie Plame's CIA identity to the press) has really committed a crime. I'd say 99.8% of the discussion (including my own) has … [Read more...]
Rick Santorum has apparently gone insane
Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), when asked if he stands by his three-year-old remarks linking the clergy sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church to the supposedly pervasively liberal attitudes in Massachusetts, had this to say, according to … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick chats up Blue Mass. Group – film at 11
He promised us 10 minutes. He gave us 30. Charley, Bob and I just got off a fascinating and wide-ranging conference call with Mass. Gov candidate Deval Patrick. We talked housing, health care, construction, political … [Read more...]
Continuing with our all-Deval coverage
I started by asking why Deval was bothering to reach out so directly to folks like us. He responded that he is consciously running "a different kind of campaign." He said that he has seen many good people give up on … [Read more...]
Does Patrick do details?
David began by asking: Why talk to blogs? Like a good writer, Patrickmoved from general to specific: He spoke of running "a different kindof campaign", one that appeals to people's optimism and sense of shareddestiny, instead of … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick: Measured and to the Point
In a wide ranging interview Gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick demonstrated the affability, approachability, and results-oriented focus that propelled him to senior positions at the Justice Department, Coke and Texaco, and leading Boston … [Read more...]