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For Capuano

December 2, 2009 By carl_offner

Comparing the Candidates, as I see it Capuano/Coakley: There are a number of differences, but the big one for me is civil liberties.  Coakley has lately been virtually indistinguishable from Capuano on this issue (as one can see for … [Read more...]

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Sudbury DTC Endorses Capuano

October 13, 2009 By carl_offner

This will be short and sweet.  I'm happy to announce that tonight (Tuesday, October 13) the Sudbury Democratic Town Committee overwhelmingly voted to endorse Michael Capuano for Senate.      --Carl Offner … [Read more...]

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Sen. Kerry, Health Reform, and the Labor Day Rally

September 6, 2009 By carl_offner

While I was waiting in line to get in, I passed out about 30 copies of the Sudbury DTC report "Single-Payer Universal Health Care—An Idea Whose Time Has Come".  It was very well received, and I noticed the person in front of me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care, kerry, obama, public-option, single-payer

Tribute to Senator Kennedy from the Sudbury Democratic Town Committee

August 31, 2009 By carl_offner

He cared about civil rights as "the still unfinished business of America".  He was instrumental in renewing the Lyndon Johnson Voting Rights Act in 1968, and in preventing Ronald Reagan from watering it down in 1982.  He was a key … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ideals, kennedy, national, values

Report on Rep. Tsongas’s health care meeting in Hudson

August 11, 2009 By carl_offner

In contrast to the Saturday meeting in Chelmsford, this meeting was civil.  No one was shouted down, and in fact there were very few out-of-order interjections at all.  There was some applause -- on both sides -- but nothing that … [Read more...]

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The obstacles to single-payer health care.

July 22, 2009 By carl_offner

                      POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS Many people reading this are no doubt familiar with the web site fivethirtyeight.com ("538 dot com" -- 538 was the number of electoral … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cynicism, health-care, insurance-companies, politicians, single-payer

Ideas, the Republicans, and Us

March 9, 2009 By carl_offner

The Republicans really do need Obama to fail.  The reason is not that this will lead to Republican electoral victories, though it may.  The reason is much deeper. The Republican party is committed in a fundamental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cynicism, ideology, individualism, obama, rush-limbaugh, world-view

Wasted Lives

March 19, 2007 By carl_offner

It's quite understandable.  For a parent who has lost a child; ahusband or wife who has lost a spouse; a child who has lost aparent in that war, the pain is just so great.  And there is theaccompanying impulse to at least provide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush-administration, iraq-war, national, torture

On Teachers and Teachers Unions

December 1, 2006 By carl_offner

Many people believe that the main function of teachers unions is to protect those teachers that are minimally competent or outright incompetent.  In my experience, this just isn't the case.  When I started out teaching, I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick-working-groups, teachers, teachers-unions, unions

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