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Gay Politics and the Supreme Court
The day Elena Kagan was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, I told a colleague of rumors around Boston that she is gay.
Video: Scott Mackey on Wireless Taxation
KSE Partner Scott Mackey explains why wireless consumers are popular tax targets.
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A Different Take on the Supreme Court Ruling
It’s always great when an event throws the usual (and boring) left vs. right equation off its moorings.
U.S. Immigration Jails
Every once in a while, the New York Times produces a story so chilling that you not only read it to the end – you read it twice or three times. Nina Bernstein should get a prize for her lead story Sunday about U.S. treatment of the men and women who die in U.S. immigration [...]
The Second Education
New York Times Columnist David Brooks has the best column of the week, focusing on what he called the “second education.”
Dubie Wins!
Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie, the presumptive GOP nominee for governor, has a “mortal lock” on the election next November. He will win the governor’s race. He will be Vermont’s next governor.
There are five credible, articulate, energetic candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. The party has produced a plethora of talented candidates who believe 2010 [...]
Run – Don’t Walk – to Buy the new Obama book
A political junkie friend told me last year that Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination because Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn “can’t count.”
Twitter: The New King-Maker
At the Democratic convention in Denver last year, 70,000 people waited for Barack Obama to speak…
Obama Almost Fell Down the Twitter Hole
It used to be the only thing a politician or public figure had to worry about was a “hot mike”…