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Jesuits Banned From Massachuetts Bay Colony in 1647
Early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were both inhospitable and intolerant of those who didn’t share their religious beliefs. These Puritans were particularly hostile to the “devilish” Roman Catholic Frenchmen of Quebec and especially to the Jesuit missionary priests they brought with them. Jesuit conversions of the natives along…
Read More »Will Medicare be the defining issue of 2012?
I was born in 1958. That makes me 52 years old. So when the budget passed by the House Republicans preserved Medicare for everyone 55 or older but turned it into a privatized voucher system for me and everyone younger than me, I was concerned. Fortunately the Senate defeated that…
Read More »Barney Frank’s back to his old self, provocative and, this time, unsettling by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was vintage Barney Frank at last Friday’s meeting of the New England Council. He was savagely funny, insightful, acerbic and provocative. This was particularly true when he discussed the federal deficit and lifting the debt ceiling, the…
Read More »Herald v Obama saga reveals much about how politicians deal with the media by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. Mark Twain knew it to be true. The underlying message is no less true today, despite how communications technology has changed the nature of the media.…
Read More »E.J. Dionne: “Catholicism has a lot to say…”
May 23, 2011
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Marie
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I, too, wondered at the dearth of commentary about Speaker Boehner’s commencement speech given at Catholic University and especially the letter written by a group of Catholic academics, including some leading members of the Catholic University faculty. I find Washington Post columist E. J. Dionne’s recent column interesting as he…
Read More »“Boys, the old flag never touched the ground!”
On this day – May 23, 1900 – Sergeant William Harvey Carney was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery on July 18, 1863. He fought for the Union cause as a member of the fabled 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. Recruited from freed slaves – it was the…
Read More »Charles Sumner Attacked in the U. S. Senate
MassMoments reminds us that on this day May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was viciously attacked on the floor of the United States – beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks, a Congressman from South Carolina. The issue – the language used by Sumner in a passionate anti-slavery…
Read More »“Keep the Fifth Intact” Rally
A group led by former State Senator Steve Panagiotakos and Trinity EMS co-founder John Chemaly gathered yesterday at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center for a rally to keep the Fifth Congressional District intact in the upcoming redistricting process. With Congressional redistricting following close behind the every-ten-year Federal census,…
Read More »Reminder: Rally for the 5th Today at UML/ICC
Don’t forget the “Rally to Keep the Fifth Intact” today at 1pm at the UMass Lowell/Inn & Conference Center at 50 Warren Street in historic downtown Lowell – the heart of the Fifth Congressional District. Please join us! Here’s your invitation: Dear Friend, Please join Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, special guest…
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