CT Blue

Steven Benen at Talking Points Memo observes that the conventional wisdom among our betters in the Beltway is that Mitt Romney must address the “Mormon Question”. National Journal conducts a weekly “Insider’s Poll,” which, as the name implies, questions DC players about political stories of the day. As the WSJ noted, the poll is “generally […]

It so happens I’m reading a book about Shakespeare. The general subject coming up, it chanced that my brother-in-law, who’s visiting with us, and is a former English teacher, told me about this Youtube video, of a performance of an excerpt from the Midsummer’s Nights Dream, by a certain well known quartet. Most of the […]

To hear Alan Greenspan tell it, he watched helplessly as a Republican President and a Republican Congress destroyed the American economy. In today’s Times, he tells a amnesiac and properly deferential Times stenographer: In an interview timed with the release of his memoir Monday, Mr. Greenspan sought to distance himself from the economic policies of […]

My wife and I are off to Maine to a wedding. With any luck, I will not be in front of a computer again until Sunday night.

We are a union family. In my former life, prior to private practice, I helped organize the legal services union, and had the honor to be chosen to represent my fellow workers before the NLRB. My wife is still a member, and my son has spent two years in various union organizing activities. Labor Day […]