Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.