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Bill Clinton on the “Good” in OWS: HuffPo
October 13, 2011
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PaulM
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From huffingtonpost.com, here’s former President Bill Clinton commenting on the Occupy Wall Street protests around the country.
Read More »NH GOP Presidential Debate Tonight at Dartmouth College
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…
Read More »Weak Field for GOP
October 11, 2011
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PaulM
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I can see why some of the more thoughtful Republican Party members and leaders around the country are worried about the upcoming presidential election. The collection of candidates you will see debating tonight in New Hampshire is a weak bunch. There’s nobody of the stature of Sen. John McCain, no…
Read More »Joe Nocera at NYT Touts an Economic Plan
October 11, 2011
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PaulM
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Seems like everyone in the opinion business has an idea to throw on the table. Today, columnist Joe Nocera of the NYTimes writes about a plan from the New America Foundation that mixes and matches familiar and new proposals in an attempt to influence the policy discussion around economic recovery.…
Read More »Kevin Landrigan’s View – 2012 NH Primary Landscape
Former Lowell Sun scribe and longtime political writer for the Nashua Telegraph, Kevin Landrigan has covered many a New Hampshire Presidential Primary Race cycle – for Democrats as well as Republicans. In his column today Landrigan sees the current GOP race as a “hurry up and wait” season. He describes…
Read More »E. J. Dionne on Warren and Will – “in full, if awkward, agreement”
My favorite Washington Post opinion writer – Massachusetts native E. J. Dionne, Jr – writes today of Elizabeth Warren’s succinctly stated case for liberalism and George Will’s skilled attempt to knock it down. An admirer of both people – both by the way reputedly skilled debaters – Dionne notes that…
Read More »‘The Ides of March’
If you are cynical about politicians and politicking, you may want to skip this movie. Not one of the main characters in this story fares well. You definitely do not want to be these people on screen. The story reinforces citizens’ worst assumptions about politics. But politics is only the…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Media Empire Building to Our North?
October 8, 2011
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Marie
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The Nashua Telegraph has an interesting article this morning about a former GOP Senate candidate’s plan to build a new media empire across the New Hampshire landscape – even dipping down into the Massachusetts end of the Merrimack Valley. The hot times of a New Hampshire presidential primary season may…
Read More »Glen Johnson on the Elizabeth Warren Debate Answers vs the Brown Remarks
Over on boston.com, politics editor Glen Johnson gets to the heart of the matter of what he calls the recent kerfuffle surrounding the Elizabeth Warren quip during the UMass Lowell debate earlier this week – “I kept my clothes on ” – that went viral and the Scott Brown answering…
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