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Archives for January 11, 2011

Ask your favorite Boston City Council candidate…

January 11, 2011 By theszak

An Open Boston City Council http://anopenbostoncitycouncil... Ask your favorite candidate about the stenographic machine record of the public meeting of the City Council. Unofficial List of Certified Candidates for District 7 City … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-city-council, boston-finance-commission, budget, budget-hearings, city-council, fincomm

Demolisher’s Reading Assignment

January 11, 2011 By kbusch

Okay, maybe he's only able to prove his point with strong adjectives. Facts less so. Worse, Mr. Hayward engages in a dishonest tactic I've seen a number of conservatives use: He skips all the substantiation that Krugman supplies — … [Read more...]

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James DiPaola

January 11, 2011 By millburyman

Editor's note: The original version of this post was so full of invective and other garbage not consistent with our rules that I considered deleting it.  However, the link is to new information about the Middlesex Sheriff's Office. … [Read more...]

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Vicki Kennedy will not run for Senate [updated – WITH POLL!]

January 11, 2011 By David

Sounds pretty definite. "There's no elective office for me," Kennedy said. Although she has said all along she isn't interested in seeking the seat her late husband long held, the speculation and the cajoling have continued. Now, with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012, brown, ma-sen

Face it: extremists on both sides do the same stuff

January 11, 2011 By mannygoldstein

-- January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: candl, false-equivalency

Lose a ton, of carbon that is, on the $7 Gaviotas carbon diet- Yup, I’m in!

January 11, 2011 By desa-vanlaarhoven

If there is one thing that my team at the Marion Institute hears over and over from me it's "lets walk our talk". I believe that we need to authentically be the change we wish to see and advocate for this change through example. So I, along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: carbon-emissions, carbon-offsets, climate-change, co2, gaviotas, global-warming, greenhouse-gas, marion-institute

Wikileaks Shot Gabby Giffords

January 11, 2011 By JimC

Cross-posted locally. OK, technically Wikileaks is a website, and websites can't pull triggers. Unless it's Sarah Palin's website. And so the Republic is tested again. This is the only story in politics right now. The House could declare … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media

New blog!

January 11, 2011 By tedf

BMGers, I would like to invite you to visit my new blog. It's called Letters Blogatory. For the non-lawyers out there, a "letter rogatory" is a request by one court for assistance from another court--an area of law called "judicial … [Read more...]

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A New Song of Sorrow

January 11, 2011 By bmass

Kathy Myers is a sign of our failure to care for one another.   A resident of Indiana, Myers badly injured her shoulder, had no health insurance and no money, and believed that the only way she could be treated was to take a pistol … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: assassination, christina-green, gabrielle-giffords, guns, kathy-myers, violence

Giffords Discusses Toning Down Rhetoric on Eve of Shooting

January 11, 2011 By johnk

TPM reported that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had send a message to congratulate Trey Grayson for his recent appointment as director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. Trey Grayson was the Secretary of State of Kentucky and lost to … [Read more...]

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