Last summer I penned two articles, referenced below, related to the controversy surrounding the abuse of foreign student workers at a Hershey's packing plant in Pennsylvania. Both posts were met with the expected knee jerk reactions from my … [Read more...]
Archives for February 26, 2012
Comment of the day: An MBTA baker’s dozen +1
Rep. Dan Winslow held forth in the comments a while back about MBTA revenue/stabilization ideas. I appreciate the effort -- good for a Republican (pat on the head). From stomv, a larger suite of ideas that come closer to addressing the … [Read more...]
Health Care Law’s Natural Outcome is the Recent Attack on Religion
Let me see if I understand this correctly. Up until a few years ago there was no government mandate that most employers provide health insurance for employees. Since then the state and federal government have instituted laws requiring … [Read more...]
Brown’s radical anti-birth control stance blowing up in his face
In which the Senator becomes a booster for the Roy Blunt wing of the national Republican Party, from rural Missouri, and reaps the whirlwind. Here is a profile of the views of Brown's co-sponsor Senator Blunt (R-MO) from Wikipedia: Blunt … [Read more...]
Birther lawsuit doesn’t even pretend it’s not about race.
One Gordon Epperly of Alaska has filed suit to keep the President off the ballot on th following grounds: Barack Hussein Obama II, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama, a.ka. Barack H. Obama has the race status of being a “mulatto.” Barack … [Read more...]