He is a circuit court judge from Colorado, and former clerk for Justices White and Kennedy (and if confirmed will be the first justice to serve with another justice for whom he clerked). In any other circumstance I would say he's qualified … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2017
Gorsuch Nomination in East Room
I hope everybody's enjoying the white party in the East room of the White House. What a very white house it is this evening. What is this? 1923? … [Read more...]
Republicans Pose Laws Cracking Down on Lawful Protests
From CNN. These are the sort of officials we need to highlight, and run against. I'm going to guess that Rep. Keith Kempenich has a pretty safe seat, but it would still be useful to challenge him. Lawmakers in that state are set to vote … [Read more...]
A Progressive Legislative Agenda for 2017-2018 (plus, your action needed)
Progressive Massachusetts proudly announces our 2017-2018 Legislative Agenda for the 190th session of the Mass General Court. The Moral Urgency of Now: Massachusetts Must Lead. We are watching the federal government under President Donald … [Read more...]
Ripe Opportunity for the state to help Western MA
The Hartford Courant is reporting that the insurance company AETNA is exploring a move to Boston from Hartford. In general this seems like a silly proposition, but is a perfect opportunity for our state leaders to help the Western … [Read more...]
Dump the Trump Slump
I originally posted this on my Facebook page, in response to seeing despair from a lot of friends. Maybe it can do some good here as well. You’re exhausted by the news. You’re by turns baffled, angry, and weepy about the things that are … [Read more...]
What am I Missing?
As stated in the Boston Globe: The growth of the state economy slowed to a crawl in the last three months of 2016 as the shortage of skilled workers squeezed company expansion plans, the University of Massachusetts reported on Friday. The … [Read more...]
It’s not really about Trump, Part 3
See this article. It's a lot about Bannon. Now we know why Bannon got himself onto the National Security Council. He already seems to be in control of Trump's domestic agenda of rolling back enlightenment-inspired pluralism and the … [Read more...]
Are we being “played”??
From Heather Cox Richardson: she is writing from the position of a moderate (albeit one who has published several books on the history of the Republican party). ---- “I don't like to talk about politics on Facebook-- political history is … [Read more...]
What happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Not a single person has been killed on American soil by terrorists from the seven nations included in Trump's immigration order. But the order is popular with many Americans -- roughly half. It is popular because those Americans are … [Read more...]
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