As the national media focus on the civil war within the Republican Party, the Republican governor of this liberal state is leading a quiet revolution in state government, and, in the process, creating a model of New Republicanism.
Gov. Charlie Baker – and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito – are governing in style and substance that is moderate, pragmatic and unpretentious (there are no hints at being a "compassionate conservative," for instance) which, even in the firmly progressive Commonwealth, is highly effective. Unwittingly, it should be considered a new form of Republicanism and a model of success — especially for the few national Republicans vocalizing an oath of fidelity to the party's core values.
NEW YORK (AP) — John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and host of the namesake long-running television show that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington politics, has died. He was 89.
McLaughlin died Tuesday morning, according to an announcement on the Facebook page of "The McLaughlin Group" series. No cause of death was mentioned, but an ailing McLaughlin had missed the taping for this past weekend's show — his first absence in the series' 34 years.
