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Joe Nocera in the NYTimes this morning shares news about an idea that Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz and some of his people came up with as a way to stoke up the ecoomy and create jobs. He’s urging Americans to donate money that can be loaned to small businesses for the purpose…
Read More »Last weekend Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith burst into the national news when Robert Jeffress, the evangelical pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch in Dallas, after endorsing Texas governor Rick Perry for the presidency, said that Mormonism was “a cult” and that Romney was “not a Christian.” I suspect that most…
Read More »Huffingtonpost.com this morning leads with reports on Occupy demonstrations in the US and abroad.
Read More »Occupy solidarity demonstration in Berlin, Germany, today (web photo by AP courtesy of nytimes.com) Read today’s report in the New York Times here and get the NYT on your porch or online if you want more.
Read More »“Occupy Wall Street” has changed from an advertised brand of public-action therapy in Manhattan to a generic social drug called “Occupy.” The new drug is being prescribed and administered in cities far and wide, in this country and now abroad, by self-licensed community healers who have decided that current public policy remedies are damaging their nations’…
Read More »NYTimes opinion writer Tim Egan unpacks the the pain sandwich that Herman Cain is trying to sell to GOP primary voters, the “999” tax plan that he claims would simplify the tax code and juice the economy. Read Egan here, and get the NYT if you want more. Also, in today’s Globe,…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats is scheduled for tomorrow Saturday October 15, 20011 – at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. Update: State Representative Tom Conroy and Marisa DeFranco – both candidates for the U. S. Senate – are…
Read More »[youtube]eQ5xa7AjPXM[/youtube] Newt Gingrich says Barney Frank should go to jail. The Congressman from Massachusetts responds. [youtube]ETq7OFtSJ8U[/youtube]
Read More »From huffingtonpost.com, here’s former President Bill Clinton commenting on the Occupy Wall Street protests around the country.
Read More »Dartmouth College is another stop on the fall Republican presidential candidates debate schedule. The college co-hosts the debate tonight October 11 at 8:00 p.m. with the U.S. economy as the focus. The event will be broadcast nationally and around the globe by Bloomberg Television and streamed online by Washingtonpostlive.com. WBIN…
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