“Massachusetts” on The Daily Caller

I realized a day or so after it happened that I had been stabbed in the back. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — During the 2010 special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, then-candidate Scott Brown vowed to be the “41st” vote against President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul. (more)

If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles — as it was at the time. (more)

Is Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren part of the “1 percent”? The multimillionaire claimed on Thursday night’s “The Last Word” on MSNBC that she’s not, but her financial disclosure forms say otherwise. (more)

I had a conversation the other day with Dave, a childhood friend of mine.  Having grown up in Colorado we never gave guns a second thought, never realized that they could be taken away by the government, and never fathomed that people could be kept from owning them because of their zip code. (more)

Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s office confirmed to The Daily Caller that the congressman is set to marry five-year boyfriend Jim Ready. (more)

Before they were rivals for the Republican nomination, House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s health care plan and the individual health insurance mandate at its heart. (more)

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick’s office will have to wade through thousands of emails in coming weeks to respond to dueling Freedom of Information Act requests from the Romney campaign and the Democratic National Committee. (more)

When Mitt Romney left his Massachusetts governorship to run for president, his staff did everything in their power to prepare him for the race. (more)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Republican candidates will challenge President Barack Obama on foreign policy, an issue they have given scant attention in recent weeks, in a debate Saturday night. (more)

The topsy-turvy nature of the 2012 race for the Republican nomination suggests that a lack of cash isn’t the kind pf impediment for a candidate that once was. And New York Times columnist David Brooks says that could have left the door open for anyone — including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, had he decided to run. On Friday’s “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, Brooks said the younger Bush would be up in the polls, despite his family link with former President George W. Bush. (more)

During his time as Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney worked to assure pro-choice groups that he would protect abortion rights and hinted he could help soften the GOP’s stand against the practice, The Washington Post reports. (more)

In what appears to have been a joke, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren declared last Friday that she would be “going for the hick vote” in 2012. (more)

Massachusetts Democratic Senate contender Elizabeth Warren doubled Republican Sen. Scott Brown’s third-quarter fundraising haul, The Hill reports. (more)

In 2010, he was the tea party poster boy. In 2012, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown may not get so much as a nod of acknowledgement from tea party groups. (more)

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told The Daily Caller that it was a “very conservative” decision for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to give in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrant students. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man with a degree in physics was charged Wednesday with plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled airplanes filled with explosives. (more)

When Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared this week “car-free week,” he apparently didn’t mean for everybody. (more)

Ron Suskind’s controversial new book, “Confidence Men” reveals how President Barack Obama came to embrace “RomneyCare” as a model of reform. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren officially launched her Democratic campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday by greeting commuters at a rail station in Boston before embarking on a tour of the state. (more)