The Other McCain

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Send Da Tech Guy to CPAC!

Da Tech Guy interviews Vietnam veteran Randy May at a Scott Brown rally Jan. 17 in Boston. The trademark Sicilian hand gestures. The ubiquitous fedoras. Trust me, we need Da Tech Guy at CPAC. He’s a proud man who works hard to support his family. He got laid off from his IT job more than a year ago, but keeps plugging […]

E-Mail From a Reader

“The President should have prefaced his State of the Union speech with a profound moment of silence, recognizing the many thousands who died tragically in Haiti. Instead, Haiti was practically a footnote in his speech, and the point he made at the expense of all that unspeakable horror was basically how awesome we are. Obama […]

Massachusetts Update: Protest Against Planned Parenthood in Fitchburg Today

As explained last week, federal stimulus money is being used to help Planned Parenthood open an office on Main Street in Fitchburg, Mass. That’s the hometown of Da Tech Guy and he informs us that a noon protest is planned today. Massachusetts Citizens for Life: Convince the City Council to keep Planned Parenthood out of Fitchburg […]

Union Rank-and-File in Massachusetts Deserted Democrats in Droves

The Wall Street Journal today notes that Republican Scott Brown got more union votes than Martha Coakley. That would be big news if I hadn’t already reported a week ago that SEIU members were supporting Brown and if I hadn’t reported on Election Day that an AFSCME local official was supporting Brown. The plural of […]

Conor and Andy Want Some Pudding

“It is particularly amusing to see folks call the outcome stunning in one breath and aver in the next that they can explain why it happened mere hours after the fact, without any new data save the result. This is especially grating when it’s so obvious that the election turned on all the issues that […]

All Politics News Breakfast Is Local

FITCHBURG, Mass. — Two eggs over medium, corned beef hash, wheat toast, orange juice and coffee yesterday morning at the Fifth Street diner: The Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise has this: Vincent FratAntonio, 49, of Leominster, went to vote Tuesday despite recently having major surgery, and cast his vote for “(Scott) Brown, of course.” . . […]

Polls, Robocalls, Snow, and Other Distractions in Massachusetts

FITCHBURG, Mass. This afternoon, I was on the Ken Pittman show on WBSM in New Bedford and Fairhaven and the subject of the Tea Party movement came up. There can be no doubt that Tea Party activists — “far right teabaggers,” as Chuck Schumer calls them — are making a difference in Massachusetts. Think about that Vietnam veteran […]

Massachusetts Senate: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Vote Brown

FITCHBURG, Mass. — Red Mass Group, Gateway Pundit and Legal Insurrection now pick up on the SEIU “Purple for Brown” phenomenon I spotted last night in Worcester. Weasel Zippers has MSNBC’s Ed Schultz boasting he’d cheat to elect Martha Coakley. Meanwhile, I’m updating for The American Spectator: Seeing the Senate campaign from ground level is […]

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