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WTKK (96.9 FM) made rival radio host and Herald columnist Howie Carr an offer he couldn’t refuse - a five-year deal that could earn him a whopping $7 million and make him one of the highest-paid local talk jocks in the nation, the Herald has learned. As WTKK’s new morning-drive man, Carr would earn a base salary of $450,000 the first year; $500,000 the second year; $550,000 the third year; $600,000 the fourth year; and $650,000 the fifth year, according to WTKK’s offer of employment. But the real money kicks in if Carr hits his performance bonuses. At the Greater...

Miffed that not enough people tuned in to Al Franken’s “Air America” liberal talk radio venture to keep it out of bankruptcy protection, and further miffed that conservative talk radio hosts mobilized listeners against the failed immigration bill, some Democrats are trying to put the defunct “fairness doctrine” into federal law. A Republican member of the House, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, has a better idea. He’s introduced legislation to forbid the Federal Communications Commission from doing such a stupid thing. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wrote Pence that the commission has no such intention anyway, but it never hurts to...

Flanked by nine other 2008 GOP presidential hopefuls, former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney was pinned down last night on several hot-button issues - including questions about his shifting views on abortion - in a free-for-all debate in which he became a main target. Romney was forced to answer hard questions as to why he supported abortion when he ran for Massachusetts governor in 2002 but has since shifted to a hard anti-abortion stance. “I’ve always been personally pro-life,” Romney said, adding that as governor, he vowed to “protect a woman’s right to choose. I changed my mind. I said...

The state-rep crime wave continues unabated. Now the noose begins to tighten around . . . well, fill in the blank. And I do mean blank - as in, zero, cipher, nonentity. We’ll get to the latest roundup of reprobates in a moment, but first let us consider this week’s Public Enemy No. 1, a repeat offender from Freetown named Mark Howland. How bad is this ex-rep? Howland’s so bad he may get a weekday shift as a talk-show host on WRKO. That’s how my station hires. We don’t ask to see your resume, just your wanted poster. Don’t bother...

The hack du jour is Larry Trapasso, a Worcester election commissioner and former $77,000-a-year executive assistant to State Auditor Joe DeNucci. Translation: He was DeNucci’s back-up driver and go-to guy in Worcester. Here are the headlines of some of the stories last week in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette about Trapasso: “Bribery investigation . . . Corruption flap flares unabated . . . Probation orders at heart of probe.” Trapasso was on DeNucci’s payroll for nine years, but this time the 67-year-old auditor managed to stay ahead of the corruption curve, firing Trapasso May 17. In a brief interview Friday,...

Bay State officials seeking to save a coveted congressional seat are turning for help to residents who can’t even vote: illegal immigrants. A census of the often-maligned underground residents - who face constant calls for their deportation - could be critical to reaching a population total that could preserve the seat. “We need to chase them,” Secretary of State William Galvin said yesterday, stressing the need for an “all local” hunt for everyone living here. Crucial to the census success: Convincing the estimated 150,000 to 200,000 illegal immigrants that they will simply be counted, not arrested. “This is for real....

The Massachusetts congressional delegation would like to ask Sen. John Kerry a question: How can we miss you when you won’t go away? You see, there’s a whole other story involved in Gigolo John’s political suicide in Pasadena last week. For weeks, the persistent rumor had been that once the elections were over, Liveshot would announce that 1) he was officially running for president in 2008, and 2) he would not seek re-election to the Senate. Nobody cared about 1) because a 2008 run would have obviously been his next “botched joke,” but 2) would have set off a stampede...

Mike Dukakis was a good governor. And if you don’t believe me, just ask Deval Patrick. Here’s the exchange from the final televised debate Wednesday night. Kerry Healey: “I’d like to ask you, do you think Dukakis was a good governor, and why?” Deval: “I think that Mike Dukakis was a good governor in many ways, and we had challenges then.” We sure did, Deval, and the biggest challenge of all, at least to us taxpayers, was named M. Stanley Dukakis. Sure, Deval’s lead in the polls is most likely insurmountable, and tossing a bouquet to the henpecked wimp Mike...

Ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Hot Stud) was born in Newton and lived there as a child. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Hot Bottom) now lives in Newton. Coincidence? OK, of course it is, but why is it that every single homosexual scandal (and a large percentage of the hetero ones as well) seems to have a direct connection to Massachusetts? Welcome to the Gay State. Now entering Sodom and Begorrah. You want to play Six Degrees of Massachusetts Gay Scandal? Let’s start with Mitt Romney. I kid you not, Mitt Romney has a family connection to the first (as far as we know)...

In a vicious political backstabbing, Christy Mihos’ own brother and sister have thrown their financial support behind Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, with one sibling saying the convenience store magnate has “embarrassed” the family with “despicable” attacks on his GOP rival. James Mihos, who once ran the Christy’s Market chain with his politician brother, and his wife, Linda, have each given the maximum $500 donation to the Healey campaign. Mihos’ sister, Marlene Mihos-Bucuvalas, made a $100 donation to Healey this weekend. None have donated to Mihos. As if the turncoat political contributions weren’t enough, James Mihos fired off a biting e-mail...

When chess buffs get bored, they sometimes fool around with a game called “suicide chess.” The rules are similar, but the goal is to lose all your pieces. If you need an illustration, just watch the Democrats. How else do you explain the fact that so many of them are seriously considering nominating Hillary Clinton for president in 2008? Earlier this month I revealed here that even 45 percent of Democrats, in “purple” New Hampshire, tell focus groups they hate her. Hate. Among their comments: “B-tch . . . political wh-re . . . evil . . . diabolical.” It...

Don’t breathe a word of this. Because nobody’s supposed to know. But the real reason Charles Laquidara and WBOS parted ways was because the station believed the Boston radio legend was being too political - and he wouldn’t sit for censorship. Laquidara resigned his gig as host of a daily one-hour music show called “Back Spin” after catching heat from station suits for airing his way-left-of-center views on the prez, the war, etc. Our spies in the studio say that after Laquidara played Neil Young’s new tune “Impeach the President,” he was reprimanded by his boss, who told him something...

A Brighton homeowner is in trouble with the city because an alleged break-in artist fell to his death early yesterday from a set of rickety exterior stairs attached to the man’s two-story house.

Charging Fidel Castro with the deaths of his relatives, Cuban-American Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell declared last night: “I hope he does die.” “Castro killed members of my family,” Lowell told the Herald before last night’s game against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway. Some news reports have suggested the Cuban dictator, nearly 80, is gravely ill after undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding, even as Cuban news media say he is recovering. He has handed power to his brother, Raul Castro. Lowell, 32, recounted the trauma the Castro regime has caused his family. “My dad had to pack up his...

Big Dig workers were so stumped by ceiling construction in the Ted Williams Tunnel they used duct tape to temporarily secure bolts now coming loose in hundreds of areas on the $14.6 billion project, state inspection records show. The records reveal massive confusion and disagreement over repeated failures of epoxy-bolt fasteners installed in the mid-1990s. Inspections noted that holes were drilled too deep, bolts were too short and epoxy was at times not mixed properly. In some cases, records show, workers scrambled to find a temporary way of keeping bolts from dropping out of the ceiling. “Bolts have falled (sic)...

When 5-year-old Robert Kosilek started dressing as a girl in a Chicago orphanage, the seemingly innocent act set in motion a tragic cycle of punishment and abuse that paved the way for the killer con’s violent downward spiral. The nuns who ran the orphanage beat him with paddles and rulers, locked him in a closet and forced him to kneel on a hard, wooden floor on top of rice grains. He was repeatedly molested by his grandfather starting at age 10. Now serving life without parole for the 1990 murder of his wife, Kosilek has embroiled the state in a...

Not satisfied with his taxpayer-funded female hormones and laser hair removal, a convicted killer-turned-transsexual is again asking the state to pony up to complete his transformation into a woman. Robert Kosilek, who is serving life in prison for strangling his wife, was back in federal court yesterday, again demanding that the state Department of Correction pay for his sex-change operation. A similar bid was denied in 2002, and his latest attempt has infuriated Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey. “I strongly oppose using taxpayer dollars to fund a sex-change operation for any prisoner, but especially a convicted murderer,” Healey said. “Should taxpayer...

Mitt Romney just can’t help himself. Gunga Mitt and his lumberjack shirt have spent the last few days first in Iraq and now in Afghanistan. It’s all very Rudyard Kipling. The Man Who Would Be King is now The Man Who Would Be President. East is east and west is west, and Mitt won’t be seen again in Assabet. Ship Mitt somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst. Just don’t ask him anything about a bill that concerns a nurse. Gunga Din - rhymes with has-been, which is what Mitt is in Massachusetts. Not that he...

Patrick Kennedy is carrying a torch for a now-married ex-galpal and his broken heart may be the reason he’s gone off the rails, friends say. “He’s lonely,” said one of Patches’ Rhode Island pals. “He’s a mess, and it’s really sad. It really is.” Word is that Patches pines for his ex, Tatiana Platt, an America Online exec he dated for more than a year until she left him for her now-hubby, renowned architect Campion Platt. We hear that Tatiana has been defending her former paramour, saying the Rhode Island congressman has gotten a “bad rap” after a suspicious car...

WASHINGTON - Detectives probing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s early-morning car wreck interviewed workers at the Hawk ’n’ Dove bar yesterday while rank-and-file Capitol police are pushing prosecutors to throw the book at the well-connected pol. “Mr. Kennedy, by his own admission, was operating under the influence of narcotics, which is a violation,” said Lou Cannon, president of the Capitol police union. Cannon said detectives probing the Rhode Island Democrat’s 2:45 a.m. wreck visited several watering holes along Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday, asking bartenders and waitstaff if they saw Kennedy in the hours before the congressman crashed his Mustang convertible into a...

WASHINGTON -U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that he had consumed “no alcohol” before he slammed his Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier near his office, but a hostess at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole told the Herald she saw him drinking in the hours before the crash. “He was drinking a little bit,” said the woman, who works at the Hawk & Dove and would not give her name. Leaving his office late last night, Kennedy refused to say whether he’d been to the Hawk & Dove the night before. Earlier in the evening, Kennedy issued a statement...

A male member of the Kennedy family has been involved in an automobile accident that was totally his fault. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Fortunately, this time no one suffocated in a ’67 Oldsmobile Delmont at the bottom of a tidal pond. Come on down, Patches Kennedy, Boy Congressman from Rhode Island. And what’s up with Patches this spring? First he takes a hammer to the mouth in Pawtucket, and now he’s driving around Rhode Island like an idiot, or should I say, a Kennedy? Does Patches have some issues - I mean, other than the ones...

It’s almost Tax Day, and once more, the good liberals of Massachusetts have gone missing. Yet again they are refusing to pay their state income taxes at the old, more compassionate higher rate, when all it would take is the mere stroke of a pen, to hand over to the commonwealth more money . . . for the children. And now the liberals have a new cause. It’s for . . . the . . . illegal .. aliens. In case you’re new here, a few years ago the Legislature tired of all these liberals demanding that everyone pay their...

Ted Kennedy has given us his word. All these millions of illegal aliens that he wants to turn into citizens - and Democratic voters - will behave better than your average . . . Kennedy male. “If you work hard,” said the 74-year-old Kennedy, who has never worked a day in his life, hard or otherwise, “and stay out of trouble . . .” Fill in your own Ted Kennedy joke here. So there he was the other night on CNN, refusing to use the word “illegal,” endlessly repeating his talking points: “Pay a penalty . . . work hard...

Kevin Weeks didn’t have the stones to shoot me. That’s what I told Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes.” And for the record, I don’t believe any of the stuff he told Bradley about my alleged near-murder. You watch Sunday night and tell me who you believe. So his serial-killing boss Whitey Bulger hated me. This is news? Whitey wanted to murder me. Stop the presses. There’s an old saying: Never send a boy on a man’s errand, and that’s what Kevin was, a boy. He played Robin to Whitey’s Batman. There was a reason, after all, that his nickname was...

This governor’s race is turning into the political version of “American Idol.” There are differences, of course - the interest level, for starters. A lot of people actually care who wins “American Idol.” And in the local version, the contestants don’t parlay their victory into millions of dollars. In the Beacon Hill version, you pay millions of dollars, and maybe you win. Our first contestant this morning is Lt. Gov. Kerry “Muffy” Healey. She’s all bent out of shape that Christy Mihos has decided to run as an independent. Apparently, Muffy hasn’t figured out she’s got a much bigger problem...

A state police sergeant accused of soliciting oral sex from a 14-year-old boy in lurid online sex chats with an FBI agent has been tossed out of his home by his wife and prohibited from contacting his teenage son. Sgt. Brian O’Hare, who commanded National Guard units in Iraq and Afghanistan, was forced to appear in federal court yesterday after his wife, Anne, refused to co-sign his bail agreement or allow him to continue living in the couple’s Lancaster home. “As a result of his arrest . . . there has been marital strife between Mr. O’Hare and his wife,”...

First of three parts It was Dec. 23, 1994, the day that Whitey Bulger vanished. He had always assumed it would come to this, so in 1977 he began constructing a new identity for himself. The most powerful organized crime figure in New England was about to turn into “Thomas F. Baxter.” When the cops got around to searching his condo, and his girlfriends’ houses, they would find how-to books about living on the lam. There were almost as many of them as there were World War II books and videotapes. Whitey was into Nazis, so much so that in...

Already ordered my copy of Howie Carr's book "The Brothers Bulger" but wanted to mention that excerpts from the book will appear starting tomorrow (Feb 17) in the Boston Herald. (Can read online at bostonherald.com) Two brothers, one a murdering gangster and one a Mass. State Senate President profiled on "60 Minutes". "With political corruption on one side and deadly force on the other, the Bulgers shared a diabolic and destructive alliance for decades."

Maybe Dick Cheney is going to run for president in 2008 after all. What better way to shore up his support in the GOP base than to shoot some good ole boy while hunting? Nothing serious, just a few pellets. Whatever else you can say about Dick Cheney as a vice president, he’s no Aaron Burr. Unlike Alexander Hamilton in 1804, Harry Whittington will be down for breakfast. It’s still safer to go hunting with Dick Cheney than it is to go driving with Ted Kennedy. Or to go to a hotel room with Bill Clinton for that matter. You...

Despite the high risk of having your good name and credit besmirched, you may be one of the vanishing breed who enjoys having The Boston Globe home-delivered. Ask yourself these questions: Do you have a trust fund? Have you seen “Brokeback Mountain” - more than once? Do you refuse to peel the Kerry-Edwards sticker off your car? Do you always say “Happy holidays?” Did you go to a Democratic caucus yesterday to vote for Deval Patrick? Answering yes to any of the above questions indicates that you may well find the Globe almost as indispensable to daily life as Michael...

Unfortunately, Tom Reilly was explaining yesterday, there were “some issues.” Marie St. Fleur? Well, “this particular person” is “a wonderful person, an absolutely wonderful person.” As for Chris Gabrieli? “A wonderful, wonderful person.” But when it comes to politics, well, unfortunately, that’s not my strong suit. Then he said it again, that politics wasn’t his strong suit, and seconds later he circled back around it yet again. “Clearly,” he said, “it’s not my strong suit.” Strong suit? He’s got no suit at all. The AG has no clothes. Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately . . . Most unfortunately of all, at least...

BOSTON - Marie St. Fleur, a little more than 24 hours after entering the lieutenant governor’s race, decided Wednesday to abandon her campaign after revelations of tax and loan delinquency, according to a top aide to her running mate, Attorney General Tom Reilly. St. Fleur’s financial troubles sparked revelations from another politician in the thick of this year’s gubernatorial campaign: Deval Patrick, Reilly’s top rival for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, released a statement disclosing that he, too, had been a tax delinquent. “More than a decade ago, Diane and I had an installment agreement with the IRS to pay, on...

If he’s going to be a Kennedy, then Christopher Allen needs a new name to reflect his heritage. How about “Delmont Kennedy.” Let me explain the significance of “Delmont.” The Kennedys often name their children after historical events or personages. Remember that the alleged love child’s father, Edward Moore Kennedy, was named after old man Joe’s pimp, as Hunter S. Thompson always so delicately put it. So why shouldn’t Ted’s third son be named after the model name of the 1967 Oldsmobile that Teddy drove off the Vineyard bridge in July 1969? Delmont Kennedy, come on down! To paraphrase the...

John F. Kerry still dreams of becoming the next John F. Kennedy, but he’ll never even reach Ted Kennedy heights, or is it depths? Not that anyone would ever dare tell Liveshot this. Seldom is heard a discouraging word when you’re a 62-year-old gigolo married to a 67-year-old gold digger worth close to $1 billion. Ever more delusional, Kerry still fancies that his next job is commander-in-chief. He refuses to face the reality that he’s already well into his final role on the public stage. He has become the Mike Dukakis of the 21st century. John Kerry, reporting for doody...

The Boston Globe is going through its biggest shake-up in 30 years. What will it mean for the paper, the editor, the remaining staff, and the city itself? There were more lumps of coal than holiday cheer at 135 Morrissey Boulevard this Christmas season. The invitation to the Boston Globe’s December 8 "Combination Christmas Party/Survivor Celebration" included the gallows-humor header: "Do We Ever Need a Party!" Editor Marty Baron’s year-end congratulatory e-mail opened with its own somber greeting: "I’m tempted, probably like many of you, to say good riddance to 2005." The proximate reason for the Yuletide pall was the...

So Ted Kennedy is writing a children’s book. With his dog, named, of all things, Splash. Well, okaaaay. According to the press release from the publisher, Ted’s tome will run only 56 pages, but this is a guy who Monday called Judge Alito “Alioto,” and who last year referred to the junior senator from Illinois as “Osama Obama.” And if you don’t believe me, just ask the Congressman, “Andy Meehan,” as Teddy once introduced him. Let’s just hope Splash is in charge of the fact-checking for the book. But there’s another problem with this May release from Scholastic Books, and...

A Dorchester man named Santa gave his conflicted family the yuletide gift of contrition yesterday by ’fessing up to killing his cousin at a Christmas party two years ago. Torn between anguish and fidelity, Benjamin Santa’s tearful mother would speak no evil of her son, even as he was spirited away in chains from a Boston courtroom. “I couldn’t even hug or kiss him,” Luz Caban said of Santa, 24, the oldest of her four children. “There’s no Christmas for us.” Santa, wearing sunglasses, his braided hair pulled back in a ponytail, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to...

For a band that’s made its reputation with controversial stage shows and radical politics, the Living Things sure seemed tame Monday. A lackluster show at T.T. the Bear’s Place did nothing to bolster the St. Louis-bred rockers’ buzz. It certainly didn’t help that lead singer Lillian Berlin’s vocals were inaudible for the entire set. The problems weren’t solely due to the woeful sound. The Berlin brothers, who are at the core of the Living Things, seemed to be mailing this show in. There was none of the band’s usual antics: no burning of President Bush photos, no dominatrix dancers masquerading...

Rich McNair wrote with an evangelical fervor, which was noteworthy because the Middleboro teacher is an avowed atheist. “I’ve been one as long as I can remember,” he admitted in a letter sent here a decade ago. “Yet I am sick and tired of these self-centered, arrogant knuckleheads who have nothing better to do at this time of the year than make the season less enjoyable for millions of others by nitpicking over Christmas displays. “The founders would rip up the Constitution and kiss the butt of King George if they could see how present-day constitutional interpretations go to such...

The Living Things might be the most controversial band you never heard of - yet. Forget Green Day’s Bush-bashing, or Kanye West’s post-Katrina assault on the president. The Berlin brothers, who make up the core of Living Things, go much further. They were arrested at the Republican National Convention. Their show sometimes includes skits in which women wearing Bush and Cheney masks and dominatrix outfits simulate sex onstage. Before each show they ritually set fire to a photo of the president before urinating on it. These attention-getting efforts have earned the Living Things enemies, death threats and a few post-show...

Sen. John F. Kerry has testified in some of the nation’s most hallowed halls of justice and sat in many Bay State courtrooms as a prosecutor but he’d never been on a jury – until this week. Judge Margaret Hinkle raised eyebrows when she picked the Massachusetts senator to be on a Suffolk Superior Court jury Monday in a lawsuit brought by two people against the city of Boston for a car wreck involving a school principal. “I was a little surprised,” Kerry said yesterday of being selected. He said he has been to the Suffolk courthouse for jury duty...

Jerry Falwell and an army of conservative lawyers drew a line in the snow yesterday, warning Boston and other cities: Don’t mess with Christmas. And even before the first volley was fired, City Hall caved. Just after a top lawyer for the conservative Liberty Counsel blasted the Hub’s annual “holiday tree” ceremony, a Menino administration official scrambled to do damage control. “This is a Christmas tree,” Boston Parks Commissioner Toni Pollak insisted about the Nova Scotia spruce the city will light Dec. 1 on historic Boston Common. “It’s definitely a Christmas tree.” However, the city’s official Web site refers to...

Do you think it’s easy being Teresa Heinz Kerry today? This is a sad weekend for the Beautiful People of Louisburg Square. Yesterday was the first anniversary of Sen. Liveshot Kerry’s grudging concession speech at Faneuil Hall, after he was narrowly defeated for the presidency by a mere 4 million votes. It’s been a sad year for the Kerrys and all their get-a-life, trust-funded supporters who refuse to remove the fading Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers. This week, New England Cable News reporter Alison King interviewed 67-year-old Mama T about life since the tragedy of Ohio. (They were robbed in the Buckeye...

I was trying to keep my eyes open in the ninth inning of the Astros/White Sox' Game 3 Tuesday night when I came to a conclusion. Major League Baseball is eating its seed corn. How can baseball grow new generations of fans when The World Series – the culmination of the entire season – is televised too late for any young kid to watch? This is not exactly a novel thought. It's been a topic of discussion all week during the morning drive, on WEEI Sports Radio. I side with Gerry Callahan, who argues that starting the games an hour...

''60 Minutes'' stalwart Mike Wallace has written a book about his long, illustrious broadcast career – but don't expect to hear about it on CBS. Word is, the news magazine show anchor – and Brookline homey – has taped an interview on the Vineyard with rival NBC's Katie Couric to promote his new tome. It will reportedly air on ''Dateline'' Friday and again on Katie's ''Today'' show the following Monday. Which is Rather odd, considering that Wallace is a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS and ''Dateline'' is ''60 Minutes' '' main competition! ''Neither `60 Minutes' nor CBS is doing it,''...

Circulation is melting away at the Boston Globe, on top of vanishing ad revenue, and the need for deep cuts is forcing closure of its national news desk and two sections within the broadsheet. But the New York Times Co., parent company of the Globe, is standing by Globe publisher Richard Gilman and his management team – even as Morrissey Boulevard has become a drag on Times Co. earnings. The Times Co. said yesterday its Boston paper's weekday circulation plunged by nearly 8 percent over the past six months compared to last year – dropping 35,000 copies to 416,000, despite...

A Rockport man allegedly murdered his girlfriend the night before he was to go to trial for assaulting her, then holed up in their home for two weeks, sharing a sofa with her corpse while he watched TV, authorities say. John D. MacKenzie, 45, of 249 Main St. claims that after watching the Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 25, he helped Wendy L. Cox kill herself by suffocating her with a pillow and a dry-cleaning bag in the bedroom of their quaint, sunflower-yellow home, police say. Later, MacKenzie posted a note on the back door saying they were...

BOSTON (AP) - Nomar Garciaparra rescued two women who had fallen into Boston Harbor, his uncle and a witness told the Boston Herald. Garciaparra, the former Red Sox shortstop who played for the Chicago Cubs last season, was in his Charlestown condominium with his uncle Friday night when they heard a scream and a splash, said the uncle, Victor Garciaparra. As soon as the two-time American League batting champ ran out the door to help the woman, her friend also fell in, hitting her head on the pier, said Victor Garciaparra, who oversees his nephew's business and charitable ventures. Victor...

First of all, the timing is off. What's the point of unveiling the portrait of ex-Gov. Jane Swift on Oct. 24? Once you get that close to Halloween, don't you owe it to the taxpayers to make the ceremony the ultimate trick or treat? All the women who show up at the Senate Reading Room (now there's an oxymoron) could be wearing that blue dress suit that Swifties always seemed to wear, whether she was in a firing mood, or being fired, basically, by Mitt Romney. Speaking of which, Mitt will attend the festive event. It was earlier thought that...