EB3 will have to read more than just the Phoenix adult personals this week -- David Bernstein assembles a hard-hitting piece on Boston D.A. Dan Conley. But District Attorney (DA) Dan Conley is a rare phenomenon: a Boston pol who is … [Read more...]
Archives for June 20, 2007
Candidate videos from Take Back America
Just so you can know what the heck I was talking about, I'm putting all the videos of the speeches I saw in one place -- at least from the candidates that have a snowball's chance in hell.Here's Richardson: Here's Obama: Here's Edwards: … [Read more...]
Carter speaks about Bush troublemaking in Israel
Carter says US seeks to cause divisionBy Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press | June 20, 2007DUBLIN -- Former president Jimmy Carter accused the United States, Israel, and the European Union yesterday of seeking to divide the … [Read more...]
Ice Cream Kills, MCAS Makes You Smarter & Other Thoughts
Here Plummer confuses correlation with causation. Ice cream is the a textbook example of this faulty logic: Research has found, for example, that there is a positive correlation between the consumption of ice cream and murder, drowning, … [Read more...]
Big Wind in Upstate New York
The Natural Resources Defense Council offers an interesting description of a Big Wind project in upstate New York in the latest issue of its OnEarth Magazine. Some of the observations in the article: (1) Wind power development is highly … [Read more...]
How to solve the immigration problem
From the San Antonio Express-News:LAREDO: In response to the Department of Homeland Security's plans to construct hundreds of miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, the McAllen Chamber of Commerce started a campaign of their own: … [Read more...]
Let the People Vote? Maybe Not.
If there ever was an argument for the not-so-salutary results of direct democracy, it's Hillary Clinton's new campaign song. Phillip Anderson of The Albany Project has a wonderful post on the results of Hillary's contest for a new … [Read more...]
“Speculation over DiMasi’s future”??
From sco: What the heck is this about?As speculation mounts over DiMasi's future, Rogers has been laying the groundwork for what many on Beacon Hill believe will be a succession fight. His major rival is Representative Ronald Mariano, a … [Read more...]
The One Issue: Meehan was a progressive.
(via Dick Howe) Columnist Mark Shields writes about Marty Meehan's major legacy in Congress: Getting enormous soft-money contributions -- i.e. millions in legalized bribes -- out of politics. We need to remember that money's domination of … [Read more...]
Today’s Jeff Jacoby opinion piece is copy of Wall Street Journal piece from May 29
I have noticed more and more often over the last few years that media outlets tend to copy each others stories, i.e. someone does a story on topic A and two days later same story covered in exactly the same way by another TV news network or … [Read more...]