Alito will be confirmed. The stars are never wrong. … [Read more...]
Boston City Council open thread
A reader requested that we open a thread for discussion on next week's Boston City Council election, and we thought that seemed like a good idea. There are eight candidates for the four at-large (city-wide) seats. There are also … [Read more...]
Well, SOMEONE’s paying for it…
There's a point from the Globe's editorial today about the health care debate that really bears repeating, especially as we begin to hear resistance from some (though not all) business groups:Spokesmen for small businesses came out against … [Read more...]
The Alito that MoveOn didn’t mention
This darned judge:Wrote an opinion prohibiting the use of any state-owned facilities for abortions, possibly right down to the public water supply - and in the process looked forward to the day when the Supreme Court could "reexamine … [Read more...]
House has released its health care bill
Here is the House health care bill (pdf). A couple of highlights (I haven't read the whole thing yet):Individual mandate is enforced by (1) a financial penalty of 50% of the smallest premium the individual would have been able to pay to … [Read more...]
Lefties: hold your fire on Alito
I have no position yet on what the Democrats should do about Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. But I spoke this morning to a lawyer whom I know to be a partisan progressive Democrat who knows Alito, and who supports the … [Read more...]
One liberal’s positive view of Alito
I asked Pringle to describe what kind of judge Alito is. She said that Alito is "very thoughtful, very careful, very respectful of Supreme Court precedent. He has a strong conservative intellectual approach to things, but … [Read more...]
Employers are NOT universally opposed to “pay or play”
Why would a coalition of business leaders (Edmundson won't say just yet who is in his coalition - he will announce his membership as part of his State House press conference at noon tomorrow) support an assessment on business?Edmundson … [Read more...]