Category: Politics

This morning's Boston Herald had two stories that amazed me -- one that it actually happened in Massachusetts, the other that it happened at all. First, in Arlington, a …

Labor is the projected winner in the UK elections, though their majority looks to be much thinner. Sortapundit is live blogging the results, and Joe Gandelman notes that the …

I've always had a bit of a rebel/subversive streak to me. Often when I hear about a law or policy that I find especially stupid or annoying, ways to …

There's lots of speculation that John Kerry might run for president again in 2008. Kerry himself feeds the speculation every now and then, while remaining noncomittal. But his campaign …

A little while ago, I brought up a New Hampshire police chief who had a novel approach to dealing with illegal aliens: he arrested one under the "criminal trespass" …

I wonder if the nanny staters of the world are proud of this one:Fla. Judge OKs Abortion for 13-Year-Old WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A judge has ruled …

One of the problems with a "pure" democracy, as has often been pointed out, is that it usually lasts only until 51% of the people realize they can screw …

This morning, a good chunk of New England is abuzz about this story out of Lexington, MA. It seems that one David Parker didn't approve of his school touching …

A couple of times before, I've written about Killington, Vermont's attempts to secede from Vermont and join New Hampshire to escape what they view as abusive, confiscatory, unfair taxes. …

There's an old truism that "the power to tax is the power to destroy." If the government doesn't want something, it can quite literally tax it out of existence. …