Oil Is Our Weapon, Too(this section of Card's article reprinted from http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-10-29-1.html)Iran's ace-in-the-hole is not its nuclear weapon -- in their rational moments, even the most rabid of the … [Read more...]
Archives for November 20, 2006
More Romney Hypocrisy
Yesterday, Mitt Romney was on the steps of the Statehouse insisting that voters be given a chance to decide the marriage discrimination amendment.So what does he do? Denies Massachusetts voters, who actually made a choice, the … [Read more...]
Looking to the ’08 Senate race?
Congressional fratricide? The Fix lists Meehan (with the most money raised), Lynch, Markey, and Frank as potential candidates. What about others?Jim McGovern would be an interesting candidate. Solid progressive who was a major force in … [Read more...]
Timmy Taps Jimmy
According to sources, LG-Elect Tim Murray has chosen State Representative Jim Leary (D-Worcester) to be his Chief of Staff.So if anyone knows a good Democrat in that district who wants to be a state rep, now's the time to start raising … [Read more...]
WRKO Fires Entire News Staff
Did anyone see this one sentence buried in the last paragraph of the column on the Globe's Living Section on Saturday: WRKO-AM (680) eliminated its entire news staff on Thursday. The cuts affect news director Rod Fritz; news anchor and … [Read more...]
Talking to the Differently Winged about Ben LaGuer
(cross posted at Live, Love and Learn)Yesterday afternoon I spent time on some of the rightwardly winged Massachusetts blogs to see what they were saying about Ben LaGuer. Gov. Elect Deval Patrick's appointment of Joan Wallace-Benjamin as … [Read more...]
Mass. Election: Hidden Winners & Losers
Loser: The Anti-Marriage CrowdLegislative shenanigans aside, the folks who are against marriage for some of us had another bad election night as their pet issue stayed off the electoral map.The ranks of anti-marriage legislators continue to … [Read more...]
“All in the family” for Healey flack
From today's Herald:It didn't take long for at least one member of Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey's campaign squad to land on her feet. Healey spokeswoman Laura Nicoll has been named director of corporate communications for Affiliated Managers … [Read more...]
Health care: What the decision-makers are hearing
From Health Care for All's blog, reporting on the public input meeting of the "Connector", the state's new agency charged with implementing the new health care law:Next up was a panel from the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO). … [Read more...]
Who paid for the buses?
MFI and VoteOnMarriage say they were not sponsoring the free buses for yesterday's rally. Anyone know who paid for them?Just curious. That must have been some chunk of change. … [Read more...]