Turns out Brian Jones was only three months out of law school - but he sure has "brass balls" if you ask me.John Wesley Hall, Jr., the President elect of the National Association of Defense Lawyers (NACDL)testified as an expert witness on … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2007
What bullets do.
Have you seen this ad? John Rosenthal, eat your heart out: HT John Birge, via Alex Ross. … [Read more...]
Undoing Romney’s pocket veto, Patrick signs bill outlawing adoption-for-dollars
Just in from the Adoption Professionals of Massachusetts:Late last year, the legal definition of "placement agencies" was amended in Massachusetts to allow one well respected Massachusetts "for-profit" foster care agency to provide foster … [Read more...]
Pre-Labor Day weekend quick hits
It's looking more and more likely that Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) will resign in light of his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges stemming from the now-famous "incident" in the airport men's room. [UPDATE: And it's now pretty … [Read more...]
Make Your Own Mitt Romney Ad
Mitt Romney's campaign gave us a gift for the holiday weekend. Make your own Mitt campaign ad. He gives us the tools to create an ad, images, video and music. The Globe has the article. The winning ad will be played … [Read more...]
MA 5th District Positions on Hurricane Katrina & Gulf Coast Recovery
1. What specific measures would you support to help New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Recover from Hurricane Katrina? Jamie Eldridge: I support measures similar to those outlined in the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Reclamation, … [Read more...]
Sad and Angry Morning
I had seen the story before but for some reason this morning, viewing the CNN clip again, it hit me very hard. The burial of the second of three brother who are serving in Iraq. Jared and Nathan Hubbard both in their early 20s and both … [Read more...]
The Bluest Pundit: chapter 2
Chapter 2 brings us an excellent example of Keller's tendency to make broad generalizations that may -- or may not -- be justified, based on a couple of anecdotes. For instance, on p. 41, the book tells us that Mayor Dolan and his … [Read more...]
MA-05: a Donoghue surge?
The polling is in. Niki Tsongas still holds a fairly commanding, though basically unchanged, portion of the electorate: she's got 40%, up from 38% two weeks ago. The big news, though, is Eileen Donoghue, who has jumped from a … [Read more...]
The casino just got deader
Kyle Alspach writes in The Enterprise:Clyde Barrow of UMass-Dartmouth said the Bureau of Indian Affairs will definitely take the claims into consideration.At the very least, this will add extra time to the approval process, he said."The BIA … [Read more...]
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