Bay Windows reports that the state GOP party committee voted May 24 to instruct GOP party chairman Peter Torkildsen to write a letter to Republican lawmakers instructing them to back the marriage amendment to be considered at the June 14 … [Read more...]
Archives for June 1, 2007
Ex-Gay Advocate is Bush Nom. for Surgeon General
James Holsinger is Bush's new nominee to be "America's Doctor". Q: how can a person who runs a pray-away-the-gay program at his church be trusted to promote healthy public policy?Holsinger and his wife, Barbara, founded Hope Springs … [Read more...]
“Legislators Support Holocaust Denier’s Anti-Gay Bill”
The legislators sponsoring this disgraceful bill and supporting the work of anti-gay Holocaust deniers are listed below. If your legislator is listed, you must contact them and demand that they withdraw their sponsorship of Bill S321 -- … [Read more...]
MA-05: Debate on Labor (Monday, June 4)
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Merrimack Valley Central Labor Council are cosponsoring yet another MA-05 candidates' forum, this one focusing on labor and working family issues, this coming Monday, June 4, at the Little Theater at … [Read more...]
My health care questions for the MA-05 candidates
I'll be in Hudson tomorrow morning. Should be lots of fun. Here are some questions I'd love to hear answered:One word answer, yes or no: Is health care a human right?Several of you mentioned the Massachusetts health care plan as a model to … [Read more...]
NECN’s “Education of Deval Patrick”
I missed it. Outraged Liberal (allegedly a former journo) liked it -- noting that Patrick really is an outsider, thinks like an outsider ... and is treated like an outsider. Ryan is stoked, too. Much of it is on line, although I think NECN … [Read more...]
Presidential Debate on CNN Sunday 7pm
[Got an email from someone at Comcast letting me know the "Democrat Debate will be available ON DEMAND for all Comcast Digital Cable customers in New England . The debate will be found in the Get Local folder by the end of the day … [Read more...]
Just as we suspected
... President Bush's brand new call for controlling greenhouse gases has absolutely no content, no teeth, no nothin':"Will the new framework consist of binding commitments or voluntary commitments?" asked CBS News's Jim Axelrod."In this … [Read more...]
Universal Health Care? It’s History
There wasn't a lot you could do for a sick person in 1912; the greatest cost of illness or injury was loss of wages. Keeping their workers -- and their armies -- on the job was one reason most European countries, starting with Germany in … [Read more...]
America’s Finest News Sources
Catching up in the always-entertaining BMG archives -- down with seatbelt laws and the diktat of the Nanny State, up with personal freedom, by the way! -- I observed that this gem of explanatory reportage, "As Goodling as it Gets," by the … [Read more...]