Earlier this week, Massachusetts held a special election to fill the vacancy in the U.S. Senate left by Senator Edward Kennedy’s death in 2009. At first, the pundits expected Martha Coakley, the Democrat, to hold onto the seat. After all, the state has more than three times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. According to [...]

Over the Christmas holidays, the Senate gave the United States the “gift” of health care insurance reform legislation. Right now federal lawmakers are hard at work bringing the health insurance bill passed by the Senate and the one passed by the House into accord. Later this month or early next month the legislation most likely [...]