Columnist Froma Harrop from the Creators Syndicate via the Providence Journal advises critics on the Right and Left to take their criticism of President Obama down about ten notches below sputtering mad. Read the column here, which I picked up from www.realclearpolitics.com.
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Here’s my video of Governor Deval Patrick’s speech at the Democratic State Convention this past Saturday. The speech is divided into two clips with a link to the second at the end of this post. I was sitting at the far side of the DCU Center so between the distance…
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If Bob Herbert of the NYTimes went to the Smithsonian Institution and borrowed the late Tim Russert’s famous “Florida white-board,” he’d take out his black Sharpie and write on it: jobs, jobs, jobs. Again today, Herbert pounds the President for not making jobs “Job 1” at the White House. Read Herbert’s…
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David Brooks in today’s NYTimes argues the case on behalf of the value of history, literature, and the traditional liberal arts education. In a time when technology oftens appears to be de-linked from humanity, his case has merit. Read Brooks’ column here, and consider subscribing to the NYT if you…
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Out of respect for the D-Day generation, Pam Platt of the Courier-Journal of Kentucky and Indiana wrote a column about “earning” what those who sacrificed gave us. Read her column here, which I picked up from the political news aggregator site realclearpolitics.com.
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I spent Friday night and all day Saturday at the DCU Center in Worcester (formerly known as the Worcester Centrum) for the 2010 Democratic State Convention. On Friday night, Secretary of State Bill Galvin and Attorney General Martha Coakley, both running unopposed in the Democratic Primary, were nominated by acclamation.…
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