For years Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe has specialized in columns that seem designed to incite a torrent of letters to the editor, and this pattern is nowhere more striking than in his periodic columns denying global warming. Perhaps … [Read more...]
Archives for September 25, 2011
Ballot Initiative: Signatures Needed
Good evening: A Bridgewater Democrat has received approval from the Attorney General's office on a ballot question hoping to make the ballot. As you know, 70,000 signatures will be needed to get the question on the ballot. The … [Read more...]
Let 17 year old people vote in Lowell!!
I got a call the other night from a young woman from Lowell who asked me to help her get a bill passed that would permit young activists like her to vote in municipal elections at the age of 17. I offered her a lot of free advice about … [Read more...]
Patrick Administration’s charter mess just gets worse
In the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School's application for a charter, the founders based the case in their Statement of Need for the proposed school in large part on Gloucester public school MCAS scores. As we now know, the Charter … [Read more...]
Conservative Pundits Throwing Perry Under the Bus?
For the second time in the past two days a prominent conservative commentator has thrown Texas Governor Rick Perry under the bus possibly sending this latest Tea Party darling into a downward tailspin along the same trajectory as that of … [Read more...]
Outlawing Protest
One of the creepier aspects of our country: protesting is being outlawed. Maybe not made illegal, but controlled in such a way that law enforcement---ordered or abetted by the governments that employ them---can control what protesters say … [Read more...]
EW is the candidate we’ve been waiting for!
She's smart, articulate, photogenic, and her talking points should be echoed by all Democratic candidates everywhere, not just in Massachusetts. Donate whatever time and money you can to elect her. Work as if the future of the country … [Read more...]
Casino gambling and drinking alcohol ARE fundamentally different
Drinking a glass of wine or a can of beer is fundamentally different than playing a slot machine or buying a $20 lottery scratch ticket: 1) Government does not have a vested interest in how much alcohol citizens drink but government … [Read more...]
They were singing, “bye, bye Miss American Pie”
When the Watergate scandal broke, I was just old enough to grasp that something really bad, shocking in fact had happened. That was before "shocking" became just another mot du jour and scandals were not reality shows. I was raised by … [Read more...]