First, what is ICWA? Answer: The Indian Child Welfare Act. For more than 100 years, our country engaged in the wholesale kidnapping of Native American Children. These children were ripped from their parents and tribes, whipped for speaking … [Read more...]
Understanding the extremist Evangelical threat
Updated — see below I feel compelled to write this piece because so much of the commentary here at BMG reflects a profound misunderstanding of the theology and resulting worldview of the Trumpist evangelical right wing. I refer … [Read more...]
So goes legitimacy
Brett Kavanaugh, the partisan hack and perjurer, is now on the Supreme Court. This is a sickening time for America, where the Republican Party told you exactly what it is, whom it cares about, and whom it doesn't care at all about. We've … [Read more...]
Jay’s Leadership Gets Charlie Running Scared
For a long time now, Jay Gonzalez has been a strong ally of the LGBTQ community. He has been committed to supporting the new law to protect transgender rights. Republican Charlie Baker signed the law behind closed doors, and then went and … [Read more...]
They want you to stay home. Don’t.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. This is the old motto of Common Cause and a great rallying cry for our moment. The folks in power want you to feel despair. They want you to feel hopeless. They want you to stay home. What they don’t want … [Read more...]
Why people check out of politics
Today's decision by Susan Collins and Joe Manchin to vote in favor of the Brett Kavanaugh nomination demonstrates why people such as my adult children check out of politics. It is very hard to answer my youngest son, now 25, who argues that … [Read more...]
John Fugelsang nails Kavanaugh in a sentence
"Every man who really believes Kavanaugh didn't lie under oath should send his wife and daughter into a frat house offering to play Devil's Triangle." Many of my college friends belonged to fraternities and I know the Devil's Triangle was … [Read more...]
Texas Goes Blue…and Massachusetts goes Red.
Been thinking this for a while. The population of Texas is going more and more blue, with Hispanic and non-white populations and disenfranchised white voters increasing, liking Beto O'Rourke. Meanwhile, Massachusetts continues to … [Read more...]
Baker’s Log Cabin Hypocrisy
As Gov. Baker prepares to give remarks to the Log Cabin Republicans tonight, it is worth remembering that just last month, Baker raised money for Jim Lyons, one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ members of the legislature who opposes equal marriage … [Read more...]
Are you a Democrat for Baker? What are you thinking?
We're rounding into October. I note with bafflement the recent polls that show that Charlie Baker is doing quite well in the polls among Democrats. And I'm at pains to point out that if Charlie Baker were a Democrat, we'd be viewing him as … [Read more...]
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