Author: MassCommons

What Karl Rove’s temper tantrum on Fox News last night was to national politics, Howie Carr’s column in today’s Boston Herald is to Massachusetts politics:  the petulant rantings of a spoiled brat:...

“I am shocked, I am blown away,” said Joe Sweeney, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  “I thought I had a pretty good pulse on this stuff.” “We were so convinced that the people of this country had more...

Would everyone who thought last year that Jay-Z would be the political commentator who best summarized the president’s thoughts the day after his re-election please raise your hands? Now, would those of you who raised your...

Twenty years ago the politically active part of the American LGBT community was vigorously, at times bitterly, debating the question of marriage.  Marriage was a reactionary, bourgeois, repressive institution.  No,...

It means Obamacare will be fully implemented in 2014. It means the Afghanistan War will end in 2014. It means Dodd-Frank won’t be repealed. It means Pres. Obama and the Democratic Party will get the lion’s share of...