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Beacon Hill flux

Travaglini exits, Murray ascends, Patrick innovates
“Style,” according to Alfred North Whitehead, “is the ultimate morality of the mind.”
By EDITORIAL  |  March 28, 2007

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High time for high principles

Why the Supreme Court should back the bong guy
Every now and then a case comes before the US Supreme Court that has as much entertainment value as constitutional significance.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 21, 2007

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Rove’s footprints

 Where Karl goes, corruption is sure to follow. Plus, a solution to military immorality.
“Turd Blossom.” That’s what President Bush affectionately calls Karl Rove, his top political aide. It’s an apt nickname, especially these days.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 14, 2007

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A split personality

Recent events suggest that there are two sides to Governor Deval Patrick
It is time for the new governor to smarten up.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 07, 2007

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Beacon Hill billions

Governor Patrick proposes a budget. Plus, what Canada understands that the US doesn’t.
The Beacon Hill political season began for real on Tuesday when Governor Deval Patrick delivered his first budget message two months after taking office.
By EDITORIAL  |  February 28, 2007

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The GOP lurches rightward

McCain, Romney, and Giuliani are all morphing into extremists — and that can only benefit the Democrats
Did the Republican presidential candidates see something in the 2006 midterm elections that everyone else missed?
By EDITORIAL  |  February 21, 2007

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Economy travel

Why Governor Patrick’s helicopter ride was A-okay. Plus, war with Iran?
Remember Jane Swift? She was the likeable-enough political-mediocrity chosen as Governor Paul Cellucci’s running mate in order to produce a gender-friendly ticket.
By EDITORIAL  |  February 14, 2007

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Mooninite scapegoats?

Plus, Republican blood lust and Mitt Romney
A year from now, what will we think of the Mooninite fiasco?
By EDITORIAL  |  February 07, 2007

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Drinan’s spirit

Plus, Boston’s new school chief finks out
The recent death of Father Robert Drinan offers not only an opportunity to remember and celebrate his principled political spirit, but also cause to recollect the sorry state of affairs that led to his election.
By EDITORIAL  |  January 31, 2007

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State of denial

The dangerous irrelevance of President George W. Bush
Bush seems hell-bent on stretching the limits of presidential power even further than Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon did in Vietnam.
By EDITORIAL  |  January 26, 2007

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Hillary, Barack, and Iraq

Some cool thoughts on a hot race
If prescience about the disaster in Iraq were a prerequisite for presidential front-runner status, former Vermont governor and current chair of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean would be the donkey to beat in his party’s race for the White House.
By EDITORIAL  |  January 17, 2007

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Dumb and dumber

When it comes to Iraq, Bush has become a dictator. Plus, the mayor’s State of the City Address.
When it comes to Iraq, Bush has become a dictator. The nation is going to have to come to terms with this fact.
By EDITORIAL  |  December 17, 2008

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A deadly move against same-sex marriage

The politics may be even more complicated than you think, but the issue is easy to understand
Senate president Travaglini has been clear for some time that he opposes same-sex marriage-rights. List of shame: Those who voted to allow a referendum of the right of gays and lesbians to marry
By EDITORIAL  |  January 03, 2007

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The GOP’s tin ear

Republican silence in the face of attacks on the first Muslim congressman speaks volumes. Plus, Deval Patrick misses a “teachable moment.”
Anyone still wondering whether the GOP has lost touch with the electorate can find more evidence in the controversy over newly elected congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress.
By EDITORIAL  |  December 27, 2006

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On moving City Hall

Plus, Jimmy Carter chickens out after laying a rotten egg
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino may fancy himself an urban mechanic, but we’re beginning to suspect that he has an edifice complex.
By EDITORIAL  |  December 20, 2006

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The Iraq report

Its real significance. Plus, Patrick’s disconcerting moves.
The Iraq Study Group Report, chaired by Republican James A. Baker, a former secretary of state, and Democrat Lee Hamilton, a former congressman, is — to put it mildly — an imperfect document.
By EDITORIAL  |  December 13, 2006

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Broke or not?

It’s time for Beacon Hill to stop the budget blame game — and Deval Patrick should lead the reform
Even by Massachusetts’s standards, the way Beacon Hill manages the state budget is a disgrace.
By EDITORIAL  |  December 06, 2006

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Is Iraq in a civil war or something indefinably worse?

The debate, although good for America, is irrelevant to Iraq
The Today Show ’s Matt Lauer, as easy going a news guy as exists on television, nonetheless finds himself a catalyst of controversy for the second time in 18 months.
By EDITORIAL  |  November 29, 2006

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Devils in the details

John McCain or Mitt Romney: Hard to say who’s worse
Arizona senator John McCain appears to be the nation’s most popular Republican.
By EDITORIAL  |  November 22, 2006

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From Vietnam to Iraq

Corrosive wars that destroy the social fabric of democracy and the institutional integrity of political life
Getting rid of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was relatively easy compared with how painfully difficult it is going to be to get the United States out of Iraq.
By EDITORIAL  |  November 15, 2006
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