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The Globe is reporting in a “Political Intelligence” on-line post by Stephanie Vallejo that State Senator Jamie Eldridge (D) of Acton plans to refile a bill that would lessen the impact in Massachusetts state elections of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Citizens United. The recent ruling basically allows…
Read More »www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
Read More »Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
Read More »“All the President’s Men” is one of my favorite movies, and I believe the dynamic duo of “Woodstein” should be remembered with a statue on the mall in Washington, DC, some day, but I’m not a fan of the Washington insider books that Bob Woodward has been churning out for…
Read More »The Nashua Telegraph is reporting that former president Bill Clinton is coming to Nashua to campaign for Governor John Lynch. The Telegraph’s senior political writer and columnist Kevin Landrigan has confirmed that Clinton will will hold a campaign rally for Gov. John Lynch at Nashua Community College on Sunday –…
Read More »The Boston Globe not surprisingly endorsed all the Democrats running for re-election for the state’s Congressionals seats along with the one Democrat seeking an open seat. The editors’ reasoning is a good summary case for keeping the Democrats in the majority in Washington, DC. Read the endorsements here, and get…
Read More »Columnist Maureen Dowd in today’s NYTimes reviews the origins of Justice Thomas and reminds us that bad decisions do have consequences. She also points out the conservative activism seen recently at the Supreme Court may be a lot more damaging to regular folks than the liberal activism of the past that…
Read More »Author and CNN contributing writer Bob Greene gives us a look into an earlier attempt on the life of President – then President-elect – John F. Kennedy in an on-line story today. He tells of the New Hampshire postal clerk who planned to kill JFK in Florida in December, 1960:…
Read More »You hear in the ads. “I’m a mom.” You see it on the campaign trail. You hear in the speeches – as a virtue for a certain candidate and an accusation against an opponent. Out in Oklahoma – marriage and motherhood seem now to be the dividing line of competence and qualification…
Read More »In today’s New York Times – writer Robert Pear presents the Massachusetts and Utah plans as what he calls the “book ends” of state health insurance exchange models. High on the agenda when state legislatures convene next year, health insurance exchanges hold the key to health care overhaul. Read his full article here in…
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