Author: MassCommons

This seems like a bad decision by Scott Brown: “We respect Vicki Kennedy’s decision but we regret that we cannot accept a debate invitation from someone who plans to endorse Scott Brown’s opponent. The Kennedy...

I don’t know why American voters, by a 2-1 margin, support President Obama’s new immigration policy, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that most of them aren’t mean. We saw this with AIDS in...

In Here Comes Everybody: The Power Of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky observes that one consequence of the shift to a “Publish, Then Filter” culture is a massive, exponential increase in the amount of...

Chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Richard Land has unimpeachable conservative credentials—both religious and political.  Which makes his sharp break with...

A prolific author appointed to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1981, Judge Richard Posner is a leading exponent of the law and economics school of thought headquartered at the University of Chicago Law...