PS: This is of course is tounge-in-cheek and a non-story, but it appears it's silly season already. At least we know Kevin Madden knows how to pick a big loser. … [Read more...]
Archives for April 29, 2007
Burning questions
The House just approved $170 million more in spending than the Governor, using Tom DeLay-like tactics in forcing members to vote on spending amendments in bulk, without enough time to review. State House News Service quotes one rep as … [Read more...]
American Life Lays it out on Guantanamo
Don't miss the brilliant This American Life episode "Habeas Schmabeas," winner of a 2006 Peabody Award, which is now available for free as an MP3 for a limited time. The show is being re-broadcast this week."Act One. There's No U.S. in … [Read more...]
Astonishing Republican hypocrisy
Even for the national GOP, and even for the Bush administration, this particular story is breathtaking.Here are the basics (this is from Thursday):Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after … [Read more...]
ICE Immigration raids are bad for business, too
Lost in the discussion of immigration raids is the real cost to business from ICE's final solution raids.For example, Swift says it complied with the law 100% and ICE's raids cost Swift 30 million. The more I hear, the more it seems … [Read more...]
Tsongas whiffs on health care.
Earlier this week, a number of MA bloggers, including me, criticized MA-05 candidate Niki Tsongas for what seemed to us like a rather credulous, pat stance on how to solve the country's health care crisis: "free markets." I offered Mrs. … [Read more...]
Rurak questions city growth in Haverhill on his website Rurak.com
Rurak on his website writes the following ..Rurak.comCity Growth Now Out of Control People across the city feel it and the projections of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission confirm it; Growth is out of control. But rather … [Read more...]
Martin Feldstein and the Defense Budget
In an article in the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs, Feldstein, who is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard and a former Reagan administration economic advisor, argues that "a substantial increase in defense … [Read more...]
Misinformation – A Compendium
Exhibit C April 5, 2007 Cheney claims Iraq/Al Qaeda link the same day 2002 memo debunking claim is declassified. The report said that the office of then-undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith -- one of the foremost advocates for invading … [Read more...]