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...]
Archives for April 2007
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...]
The End of America: A letter of Warning to a Young Patriot [new book]
My own family left our country of origin because to be a member of our ethnic group, our religion, had become a death sentence. I remember my great-uncle showing me the scars of bullets. Riders galloped through his village … [Read more...]
Moyers and Stewart
If you're looking for something both fun and edifying to look at on the internets, here's Bill Moyers interviewing Jon Stewart, which broadcast last night on PBS. We know Stewart is funny, but the thing that makes him so appealing is how … [Read more...]
A spectacular first quarter of 2007
So says today's Globe:The Massachusetts economy surged in the first quarter, nearly quadrupling the national growth rate and recalling the technology-driven expansion of the 1990s. The state's economy grew at a 4.7 percent annual rate … [Read more...]
DSS Budget
At a series of hearings, on DSS, held by the Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect almost every professional organization testified that DSS social workers had responsibility for too many children, too many families and too many cases. The … [Read more...]
Loopholes in the news
I haven't seen much movement on this commission yet. I hope that if the Lege doesn't move quickly on appointing such a commission that the Governor will go ahead and appoint his own blue-ribbon panel to investigate the matter. I think a … [Read more...]
web.archive.org to the rescue!
Thanks johnk for letting us know about the Internet Archive site, so that we can see stuff has been removed from the internet.Now I can show people the short-lived web story on GayCityNews.com entitled "Science's Hope of Two Genetic … [Read more...]
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