Many of us had some tie with Ted Kennedy --- and for most of us it was simply having voted for him because we knew he would deliver for our state. Today, watching the wonderful ceremony opening the new Ted Kennedy Institute for the US … [Read more...]

"We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING How did it ever come to this ? The steady drumbeat of war grows ever louder from the right. The Republican party has become the party of … [Read more...]

Congresswoman Katherine Clark and her son Jarod will join the  President and First Lady Michele Obama and their daughters and other members of Congress to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Selma "Bloody Sunday" march for voting rights … [Read more...]

POTUS was awesome tonight laying out his economic, populist agenda for the middle class.  And I was so proud of my friend, Congresswoman Katherine Clark.  You couldn't miss her in her hot pink outfit ! I can hear puke heads exploding … [Read more...]

I have just learned that the 2015 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Awardees are Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-Melrose, 5th District). Congratulations to them both for championing the populist, progressive … [Read more...]

Modern day fascism, the philosophy of hate, takes many forms but they all lead to death and destruction. It was fascism that killed French cartoonists, exercising their right of free speech, who had the courage to ridicule the hypocrisy … [Read more...]

I remember watching the 1984 Democratic Convention with my late mother, a first generation Italo-American, in which the recently elected New York Governor Mario Cuomo fearlessly challenged President Reagan's trickle down economics in a … [Read more...]

"It's harder to be a liberal than a conservative.  Why?  Because it's easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand."  MIKE ROYKO Tonight President Obama tackled immigration reform in an address to the nation - though you might … [Read more...]

Senator Elizabeth Warren has just been appointed Strategic Policy Advisor to the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Watch out all you crooked Wall Street banksters, liars and thieves.  The Revolution has just begun !  Power … [Read more...]

Last Tuesday America voted for divided government both nationally and statewide. The election results have caused progressive remorse and conservative jubilation.  But look closer and you'll see that neither reaction is warranted. Why … [Read more...]