The most interesting thing to me has been the focus on the payroll tax cut: it has, among other things, given Ryan a nasty headache. But what does it do, really? It cuts 2% off payroll taxes for a period of one year, which means that … [Read more...]
Archives for December 21, 2010
View on DADT from MassEquality
Marriage equality advocates would like to think the DADT repeal would foreshadow one for the Defense of Marriage ACT (DOMA). While Suffredini sees who can serve in the military and who can marry as closely linked in this issue and … [Read more...]
Snippets and Seeds
--The number five bestselling paperback non-fiction book on the current New York Times list. is "Heaven is for Real," described as "A boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy." --What, 25 years ago (1985), was a … [Read more...]
Obama continues run of ineptitude, failure
This time by the Senate passing the new START nuclear arms treaty with Russia. It's so awful, such an unconscionable betrayal of progressive ideals that many Senate Republicans voted for cloture. A sufficient number of Republicans … [Read more...]
Where’s the State Democratic Party now?
I admittedly do not receive the press releases of the Mass Democratic Party but I am wondering why I haven't heard anything in the press from them regarding the recent probation issues. This seems like it's an issue where we need some … [Read more...]