This morning, I sat down with Scott Brown and talked to him about why he won and what it means. He had a lot to say about health care, including what it would mean if the Democrats decide to push the Senate version of their bill through the House:
Greetings from Port-au-Prince. This is the first time since arriving I’ve had enough internet access to be able to blog — though I’ve found twittering in bursts has been doable. Here, here and here are the three stories I’ve filed thus far with more to come — seems I’m going to stick around Haiti a [...]
We just got a photo at the DC Bureau of Swampland’s own Jay Newton-Small reporting in Haiti. Jay wrote about this scene, which deteriorated after the shutter snapped, in this story here.
6: 32 p.m.: I’m set up in the ballroom where the Scott Brown campaign will be holding their election night party, and am happy to report the wi-fi is working just fine. What to watch for tonight? There won’t be any exit polls, so people will be counting the ballots the old-fashioned way. It could [...]
I have spent a good part of my life in Massachusetts and I just love the place, especially Cape Cod. One of the things I love most about Mass is that people take baseball and politics very seriously there–the way people take college football down south, the way people take money on Wall Street and [...]
NOTE: I’ll be updating this post throughout the day. I’ve been up here for only a day, but it’s hard to detect anything that looks good for Democratic nominee Martha Coakley, the state’s Attorney General. Her election-eve rally at a gym in a Framingham middle school was three-quarters empty; someone on the campaign had pulled [...]
Though less famous than his speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” may best define his legacy as one of America’s great moral leaders. He wrote it in April of 1963 to repudiate the calls of eight white church leaders, in a document titled “A Call For Unity,” [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed a plan, drawn up by a commission led by fellow Shiite Ahmed Chalabi, that would disqualify 500 candidates from upcoming elections, including many leading Sunni politicians. As the Los Angeles Times reports, The decision by the Accountability and Justice Commission to bar the candidates has revived Sunni-Shiite sectarian [...]
