Outraged Liberal is all over the brewing battle between the governor and lawmakers. ... They don't trust the governor to make non-executive-branch cuts? What types of cuts? OL has three examples. ......

The Great Shake Shack Controversy hits the New York Times – and Hub Blog is prominently featured. I await the flood of new readers and private-equity offers to buy my blog, though I hope the due-diligence types don’t notice that I never wrote the quot...

The Great Shake Shack Controversy hits the New York Times – and Hub Blog is prominently featured. I await the flood of new readers and private-equity offers to buy my blog, though I hope the due-diligence types don’t notice that I never wrote the quot...

Minor quibble with OL: The legislature hasn’t been the problem ‘for the last 20 years.’ It’s been the problem for the last half century, after it became a single-party club that resists any and all substantive changes. Major agreement with OL: Rep...

Minor quibble with OL: The legislature hasn’t been the problem ‘for the last 20 years.’ It’s been the problem for the last half century, after it became a single-party club that resists any and all substantive changes. Major agreement with OL: Rep...

I don’t agree with everything in George Will’s column on health-care reform. Example: distinguishing between government coercion to buy auto insurance and health insurance. Hmmm. Isn’t this the same government that reserves the right to draft able-b...

The most frightening thing about holding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial in N.Y.? The Media. … The scary part starts at the 5-minute mark. …...

Not content with telling us what we can eat and keeping track of what we can buy, they now want to tell us where we can park. Reader No. 1:Could there be a better example of how NOT to promote environmental initatives than this proposal? Progressives have...

Even the Christian Science Monitor is weighing in on the Decision. ... More on the Teutonic Terror. ... I'll let Gerry have the last word/rant/kick/punch/spit etc. on the Decision. I'll only repeat that I don't think it was insane. ... BTW: Watching endle...

Here's another way to look at Belichick's decision: He may be blamed for months for the crushing loss, but what he really did was rational risk management. He had the option of two gambits: Watch Manning pick apart his defense with two minutes remaining o...

Brian Burke at Advanced NFL Stats says Belichick’s decision was statistically the right thing to do. … I’m not trying to play both sides of the fence. I’ve already said I wouldn’t have gone for it. But Belichick’s decision wasn’t insane and ...

The only way -- and I mean the only way -- you can justify going for it on fourth and two on your own 28 is if Bill Belichick was absolutely convinced: “We lose if Manning gets his hands on the ball again.” … He was undoubtedly calculating the odds ...

After recent T accidents, it’s hard to argue with an Obama administration plan for a federal takeover of safety regulation for the nation’s subway and light-rail systems, citing “haphazard and ineffective oversight by state agencies.” … Of cours...

George Will tackles whether Robert Capa’s iconic “Falling Soldier’’ photo was faked. … Sounds like a controversy for Cambridge’s Errol Morris to settle. I wanted to believe that Roger Fenton didn’t stage his famous Crimean War photo. I want ...

Not to sound too provincial, but do we really want a N.Y. chain-wannabe on Boston Common? I tilt toward Jeff Miller’s plan, if only because it at least strives for a local flavor. But you just know the same types who think “SoWa” is such a cool name...

How did they know I was snorting at this end of the computer? …Hey, it’s actually a worthy cause in the end. But the name of the bill does have that ‘only in Massachusetts’ feel to it....

Joe Fitzgerald (no relation) parks one re the Fort Hood/Muslims question: The truth is, all faiths have a lunatic fringe. Yet if we don’t hate all Baptists, all Jews, all Catholics, all evangelicals, understanding that they all include mad men in their ...

Then why do it? Because they can’t help themselves. They’re on a self-righteous high....

It’s perhaps the only way to block Deval’s re-election....

Remember Hub Blog’s suggestion for a movie studio on the 500 block of Harrison Ave.? Scratch that idea. A developer is looking at turning the site – a former power station and trolley barn – into a Trader Joe’s. No complaints here. Hub Blog loves ...