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...]
Santorum’s spokesman grabs a bigger shovel
Brian McGrory asks Rick Santorum's spokesman about the Senator's "Boston makes priests rape kids" column:''It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT thattend to tilt to the left in terms of academic … [Read more...]
Google News blows off the blogs
For a while our posts were getting picked up on Google News. Which was pretty cool - it brought in readers we wouldn't otherwise get, plus we got to see our posts next to the New York Times or some other august media corporation when … [Read more...]