After Graham, a talk-show host on WTKK Radio (96.9 FM), posted his item showing that an FBI site claimed Power was a Weather Underground member, I started digging. In two posts (here and here), I found that the underlying FBI document … [Read more...]
What’s next for the shrinking Globe
Working harder isn't going to do it once the Boston Globe has finished with its current round of 50 reductions to the newsroom staff. Once that process has been completed, the news staff will have shrunk from about 550 full-time journalists … [Read more...]
Michael Graham’s anti-Obama fakery
The second-best part is that Graham calls his blog "The Natural Truth." The best part is that Graham is on a crusade to convince people that McCain-Palin supporters aren't really hate-mongering against Obama. I guess he'll have to exclude … [Read more...]
Palin’s police chief: Charge rape victims for forensic tests
Bryson continues: A May 23, 2000, article in Wasilla's newspaper, The Frontiersman, noted that Alaska State Troopers and most municipal police agencies regularly pay for such exams, which cost between $300 and $1,200 apiece. "[But] the … [Read more...]
The education of Adam Bond
Please. Does Bond think for one moment that the big-money folks behind the casino plans care about Middleborough? As I and others have been arguing for more than a year now, Bond says he sought the casino in order to save the town; but he's … [Read more...]
Jeremiah Wright’s running mate?
America be damned? Gee, who does that remind you of? And could the Palins have been ignorant of Vogler's views in 1994? To this day, the Alaskan Independence Party's Web site proudly carries the following quote from Vogler: "I'm an Alaskan, … [Read more...]
Casino study fails laugh test
The inevitability theme has been used repeatedly, and, indeed, was a big reason that the Middleborough town meeting last year voted to approve a deal the selectmen had negotiated with the tribe, then voted against an advisory question … [Read more...]
Muzzling freedom of speech
Please have a look at The Phoenix's annual Muzzle Awards, a Fourth of July roundup of local anti-constitutionalism that I've been writing since 1998. You'll see why Nat Hentoff likes to say that the human sex drive is exceeded only by the … [Read more...]
Reason #11
Cross-posted from Media Nation. Picking up on Gladys Kravitz's post on the top 10 reasons that a casino will never be built in Middleborough: The wife of Shawn Hendricks, president of the Masphee Wampanoag tribal council, has taken a … [Read more...]
Governor’s daughter comes out
Cross-posted from Media Nation. Bay Windows breaks some pretty big news today: Gov. Deval Patrick's 18-year-old daughter, Katherine Patrick, has come out as a lesbian, right before this weekend's Boston Pride parade. Katherine tells … [Read more...]
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