BMGer, Cambridge son, alternate better reality President of the United States, and Harvard alum Jimmy Tingle's 2010 commencement address has surfaced on YouTube. Deep apologies for the two-week delay in getting it online here. Listen, … [Read more...]
Archives for June 24, 2010
Wild about Harry! Climate legislation is alive!
Man, this is some excellent news:Reid on Thursday offered broad-brush details of his legislative plans in remarks to reporters after an hourlong closed-door meeting with all 59 members of the Democratic Caucus. Senate sources said about … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Defends KnowThyNeighbor.org’s Right to Publish Petition Information Online
Essex, MA, June 24, 2010 -- KnowThyNeighbor.org, the national gay rights organization known for publishing online the names of close to a million anti-gay petition signers, celebrates a major victory in today's Doe v. Reed by the US Supreme … [Read more...]
Supreme Court decision seems likely to allow DiMasi prosecution to go forward
The Supreme Court today narrowed, but did not invalidate, the federal "honest services" law that has been used to prosecute many people charged with public or private corruption, including former House Speaker Sal DiMasi. The essence … [Read more...]
Blogger for Mac D’Alessandro publicly shamed at Swing State Project
Uncomfortable. For the record, I was not aware that Mat Helman was also Senate Guru, not that disclosure was required. Rather than trying to describe what happened, I am simply going to reprint most of DavidNYC's post outing … [Read more...]
Staying Hopeful During Hard Times
Same-sex marriage is now legal in 5 states, and court challenges to Prop 8 and DOMA promise to continue to raise that figure. Women now are a majority of the American workforce for the first time in history7, and continue to make gains in … [Read more...]
Dick Morris’ Balanced Telephone Survey?
Wednesday evening I had an opportunity to participate in a telephone survey sponsored by Dick Morris. The telephone survey was in conjunction with a new book Mr. Morris is writing concerning the 2010 mid-term election and his appearance on … [Read more...]
TX Oil Companies Try to Kill CA Clean Energy Legislation
As if the oil companies from Texas – and their allies in the corridors of power - hadn’t done enough harm to our country already (for more, see the late, great Gulf of Mexico), now they are at it once again. This … [Read more...]
Reforming Probation
Two recent stories have appeared in the Boston newspapers about the probation department in the state courts of Massachusetts. One story, in a Globe series, exhaustively detailed the extent to which probation officers are creatures of a … [Read more...]
Sen. Scott Brown: Wall Street, Main Street … or State Street?
Wow, real man-of-the-people we elected here. Senate staffers tonight are hammering out the shape of the so-called Volcker rule, which would limit insured financial firms' ability to take speculative bets with their capital, or … [Read more...]