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What’s Really Disturbing about the Southeast Expressway Protests

January 17, 2015 By bob-gardner

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...]

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“Dead Baby Strategy”

September 18, 2014 By bob-gardner

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...]

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A Quick Resolution to the Latest Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit . . .

July 23, 2014 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Nothing but good news from Virginia tonight

June 10, 2014 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Governor Patrick and Scott Pelley provide a defense for Matanov

May 30, 2014 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Donald Sterling = Cliven Bundy

April 28, 2014 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Nuclear Option!

November 21, 2013 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Let’s Offer Medicare and VA Benefits to the people who lost their insurance

November 15, 2013 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Too Stupid to Pay Taxes

September 25, 2013 By bob-gardner

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...]

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Seven of the Eight members of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. . .

July 25, 2013 By bob-gardner

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...]

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