Red Mass Group News and Commentary about Massachusetts and beyond

Good God, just look at these photos (courtesy Fox25). As a friend quipped recently, it looks like Lt. Governor Murray somehow found his way onto President Obama’s top-secret elimination list and was nailed by a predator drone as his Crown Vic sped down I-190 in the wee hours of November 2. Whatever the political fallout of the ongoing scandlet,…

Late last year the Patrick Administration’s Department of Public Utilities determined that a power purchase deal between National Grid and Cape Wind was reasonable and in the “public interest,” despite a price tag that will force National Grid rate payers to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars above what they would otherwise pay for electricity. Anti- Cape Wind groups…

Like most Republicans I know who do not live and work in the DC bubble, I am beyond exasperated with how this whole payroll tax holiday mess is playing out on the national stage.  This headline from Bloomberg is fairly representative of the media’s – and therefore the public’s – take: “House GOP rejects 2-month payroll tax cut.” …

How jarring the headline sitting unobtrusively in the middle of the page on Boston.com last week: “US formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare.” I cannot help but wonder what that headline – and the Associated Press article beneath, which emphasized the costs of the war to the virtual exclusion of its results – says about our culture…

If Mark Steyn wrote ten columns per week, this would be the CriticalMASS Top 10 Steyn columns of the week… The Terrorists Have Won – Mark Steyn [NRO, The Corner Blog]
Yesterday, we learned that the crack operatives of the TSA had prevented a teenage girl from boarding her flight to Jacksonville because her handbag has a gun design on…

So are the unions. Not literally, of course.  But that is both the motivation behind and the effect of the relentless liberal assault on Mitt Romney that has only increased in intensity as Newt’s primary support grows. Here’s Boston.com, an outlet that is all too happy to disseminate anything and everything Romney-critical:

Democrats and their support groups are unrelenting…

Not that it matters now that the Commonwealth’s casino bill has passed into law, but the Wall Street Journal is carrying a must-see front page article today on the various measures cash-strapped casino host states are taking to try and boost gaming revenues to cope with persistent budget gaps. Some gambling sites have taken the initiative to offer the possibility…