Photo by Deborah Sirotkin Butler 3/18/12 Severyn Bruyn, Richard Smith, and Ann Smith at the Saint Patrick's Peace Parade I hope I age with the fire, grace and passion of Severyn Bruyn, the Veterans for Peace Member riding high in the … [Read more...]
Archives for March 18, 2012
Republicans, especially Romney, just can’t seem to tell the truth about gas prices
Mitt Romney apparently believes that the president has the power to wave his magic president wand and cause gas prices to fall, and he just can't figure out why Obama won't do it. It's hard to find another explanation for his increasingly … [Read more...]
Senator McCain Condems Citizens United
Arizona Senator John McCain appearing on this morning's "Meet the Press" told commentator David Gregory that the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision was one of the worst decisions that the high court has ever rendered labeling it naive … [Read more...]
A Continuing Problem With Hate Groups
Back in early 2010 I wrote about the reemergence of extremist right wing hate groups and militias in three posts that appear below. Now two years on the problem continues unabated as detailed in the following: Number of US Hate Groups Is … [Read more...]
Who Killed the St. Paddy’s Day Breakfast?
In the old days, it was funny. Today, it's excruciating. It's like a retirement party for someone nobody liked very much. The jokes were around when Curley was mayor, and marginally more criminal. Not everyone has the blarney of Billy … [Read more...]
Grover’s Pigs
Today's Globe Magazine covers one man who has profoundly changed America. The Bay State's son, Grover Norquist, has convinced so many American leaders that no matter how much pollution poisons our air & water, no matter how many … [Read more...]