Author: Jay Tea

Last week, the news that Iran was going to force non-Muslims to wear distinctive colors and badges in public was a telling moment around the blogosphere. A lot of …

The waters are subsiding from the Great New England Deluge of 2006, and the cleanup has begun. I got off pretty lightly; just a couple instances of minor inconvenience. …

Yesterday, I wrote a rather derisive piece about a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling abouta lawsuit against a tobacco company. I based my commentary on the Boston Glob's coverage, …

I wasn't really planning to see The Da Vinci Code (the book didn't wow me), but last week I saw something that sold me. In a supermarket, they were …

Let me begin by stating one simple fact: I loathe smoking. It was a factor in both my parents' deaths. It's a foul, stinking, habit that kills people, but …

Back in January, when the Palestinians were holding their elections, the US found itself backing Fatah to remain in power over Hamas. The argument was hideously pragmatic: Fatah was …

Yesterday was an interesting day in Boston. Two groups of aliens gathered around Beantown, each seeking changes in their status. On Boston Common, a big "immigrants rights" rally was …

I haven't touched much on the controversy regarding a mosque being built by the Islamic Society of Boston for several reasons. A lot of folks have looked into the …

One of the key figures in the 2002 election day phone-jamming scheme has found out his fate. Former National Republican Committee official James Tobin, helped state Republican officials find …

I first learned about the "Canary Trap" in Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games." It's a technique for identifying leakers; feed selected (often false) information to those you suspect of disloyalty, …