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When I was a kid, my parents were close friends with another couple, and as both families grew, the kids grew up together like cousins. When I was in college, their oldest son Ricky was a union organizer in Chicago, working to elect Jesse Jackson as President. I will never forget the day we got […]

As any follower of politics or football will tell, the fine art of Monday morning quarterbacking (or Wednesday morning quarterbacking in this case) is a much loved pastime in Washington DC. I am sure that before long, the media and the talking heads will appoint someone the scapegoat of the whole Massachusetts Senate Special Election […]

Admittedly, I am a journalist and a non-campaign person. But what’s some Pols readers’ fascination with how much money is being raised by candidates? Most of the funds raised by candidates only matter if you’re looking for a job with one of the campaigns, IMHO. Is that what’s going on here? Are you all looking […]

Don’t know why, just couldn’t fall asleep last night. Maybe it was that Aussie wine they served at the reception. Can you imagine that? Serving Australian wine at a reception for a sitting United States Senator? Good thing we weren’t in California! Anyway, about 3 o’clock I thought I heard a noise, but before I […]

For almost four centuries, technology has been the great non-ideological driver of Western history, starting with the steam engine. In two key areas, transportation and communications, American economic history, at least since the mid-19th century, has been written as a partnership between government and privately-financed technological expansion. Examples include the building of transcontinental railroads (government […]