The real outrage is that if you live on the South Shore, your chances of getting to a level-one trauma center depend on how well traffic is flowing on the Southeast Expressway. In a region that spends more per-capita on medical expenses … [Read more...]

I'm quoting Alan Dershowitz from WBUR's Radio Boston, today (9/18) at about the 6:20 mark. "(Hamas) use what I call the dead baby strategy." Dershowitz was expounding on his current series in the Globe. My question is, do the … [Read more...]

If I understand the reasoning behind the DC Appellate Court's decision, the IRS has no power to grant a tax break unless the statutory language explicitly tells them to. Someone in Congress should point out that this reasoning would … [Read more...]

Is there anyone, anywhere who will miss Eric Cantor? More importantly, the Republican strategy of taking immigration "off the table" is now gone with the wind. So instead of a pseudo reform of immigration (which would not help the … [Read more...]

Matanov had a legitimate reason to fear for his safety when the FBI or State Police came around. Here's Governor Patrick on March 24, 2014 ". . . one State Trooper who works with me said, ‘Any one of them would have gladly put a bullet … [Read more...]

Both made racist remarks which, given their history, were entirely predictable. The moral?  To fool Sean Hannity, you need to wear a cowboy hat.  To fool the rest of us, you need to own a lot of real estate.  And it helps if your victims … [Read more...]

It didn't take long for the media to take the Republican side after the Dem's curtailed use of the filibuster.  But does anyone think that leaving the filibuster in place now would prevent a (future)  Republican majority from changing the … [Read more...]

President Obama promised people  that they could keep their health insurance policies if they liked them.  But a lot the policies that have been cancelled are not coming back. Why not give the victims of these cancellations a choice.  If … [Read more...]

That's our high tech industry.  The new tax was just too complicated for software developers to figure out, so it will have to be repealed.  No one can write an ap for it, no one can develop software.  How to pay the tax is just beyond … [Read more...]

voted yes on the Amash amendment, which was aimed at preventing the NSA from collecting data on every phone call made in the USA.  The no vote came from Joe Kennedy. … [Read more...]