Keller's got the goods:Attention, Healey campaign: if youre using push polls, those sleazy phone calls to voters that purport to be legitimate polls but are really aimed at peddling smears about an opponent, you might want to reconsider … [Read more...]
Brilliant Herald column on Bush and the economy
Brett Arends has an awesome take-down of anyone who tries to seriously maintain that George W. Bush's economic "policies" have been successful.he Dow Jones Industrials Average closed last week at 11,867. Thats a gain of 1,279 points since … [Read more...]
Small plane hits NYC building; terrorism not suspected
A small plane crashed into a residential high-rise on New York City's east side this afternoon. The impact started a fire which has since been put out. At least two people are dead.All indications at this point are that … [Read more...]
Justice Antonin Scalia: Deval Patrick was right on the Songer case
OK, folks, this Songer business has gone far enough.In 1985, Deval Patrick represented Carl Ray Songer, arguing that his death sentence was unconstitutionally imposed because of a defect in the Florida capital sentencing statutes that … [Read more...]
Prison guards: Healey’s “the one that is soft on crime”
From today's Herald:Inmates watching Brokeback Mountain and other blockbuster movies behind bars. Lifers having parties at maximum security prisoners. Killers getting day passes to visit sick loved ones. Cons being entertained by circus … [Read more...]
Remember: Healey has a Ph.D. in crime!
Thanks to Adam Reilly for directing us to an article from a few months back that points out just how silly it is for Kerry Healey to proclaim herself some sort of crime expert.How do we know Kerry Healey is a criminal-justice expert? … [Read more...]
Charlie Baker damns Healey with faint praise
Harvard Pilgrim CEO and ex-Secretary of Administration & Finance Charlie Baker's op-ed in today's Globe is about as weak an endorsement of his fellow Republican as one can imagine, barring Baker's pulling a Gloria Larson and endorsing … [Read more...]
Patrick launches … um … non-positive TV ad
It's not exactly an "attack ad," since all it does is call attention to the fact -- and it is a fact -- that a number of things haven't gone so well over the last four years. But I'd be hard-pressed to describe the latest Deval … [Read more...]
Nine men, 112 years
By the numbers: nine is the number of men who have been wrongfully convicted of violent crimes in Massachusetts courts and later exonerated by DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project. Their names are Marvin Mitchell, Neil … [Read more...]
I’m back! Did I miss anything?
Hi everybody! I'm back from a week in (mostly) sunny Italy. You'll be pleased to know that my old friend and esteemed co-blogger Bob's wedding -- the excuse for going -- went off splendidly.Italy is a long way to go for a … [Read more...]
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