Coakley is more focused on prosecuting drugs than on a progressive reform of drug laws. Coakley recently lost a case in the US Supreme Court where she wanted to be able to use drug evidence without allowing the 6th amendment right to … [Read more...]
Archives for September 4, 2009
Labor’s Labor Day Challenge for Wal-Mart
The coalition includes: AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Sierra Club, Campaign for America's Future, National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, National Consumers League, AFSCME, American Rights at Work, Communications Workers … [Read more...]
Health Care Reform or Bust
A Harvard study found that medical expenses were the leading cause of personal bankruptcy filings. The study also found that most bankruptcy filers had health insurance! But that is only half the story. As health care costs skyrocket, … [Read more...]
Four Frozen Pols in the Race for Senate
But Lynch really isn't really fooling anyone. Like the three other current or former Congressmen mulling a race are waiting for a smoke signal from the Kennedy compound. It's like Lynch, Congressmen Ed Markey, Mike Capuano and former … [Read more...]
How to have a discussion, and not a shouting match, with a Senator
Now my first thought, having been to Wisconsin and witnessing first hand the generous and polite character of that area of the country, was to wonder if these teapartyers are simply more polite than others and that this left an opening to … [Read more...]
LYNCH OPPOSES HCR, IMO
WELL-CONTROLLED MEETING Congressmen Lynch and Curry College President Quigley did a great job keeping decorum and minimizing shouting or speaking out of turn. Quigley set the tone and the rules of participation. We all recited the … [Read more...]
Ed O’Reilly “seriously considering” run for US Senate
I've received the following email: I need your help and appreciate your thoughts! As you may be aware, I am seriously considering entering the U.S. Senate race. Although this special election may be quite different from last year's … [Read more...]
Once Upon a Time in America
Only that was then and this is now. That America no longer exists. The degradation in tone and quality of our national discourse as well as the marginalizing of civic education in our public schools has created an atmosphere of … [Read more...]
The Closing Of Senator Kennedy’s Office By October
If was reported in The Boston Globe the late Senator Kennedy's staff must close his office within 60 days of his death which means his office and any constituent services must end sometime in October. That is reason enough for the Great? … [Read more...]
Weekly Joke Revue
Rupert and James Murdoch's News Corporation presents: Daniel Kurtzman: "I read today that former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is considering running for the Senate. In fact he's already holding fundraisers: $500 for the full hour and … [Read more...]