While some BMG “Democrats” dream of ginning up a conservative primary opponent for Congresswoman Katherine Clark (MA-5), progressives may be cheered by this detailed feature story on Massachusetts’ other Liberal Rising … [Read more...]
Looking Ahead: Winds Of War
Progressives will fight for women’s rights, and we may prevail. What will happen if we lose? Let’s assume for a moment that Roe and Griswold will soon be overridden, and that hundreds of Federal judicial appointments that ought to have … [Read more...]
Rogue One: Recruitment Poster for The Resistance
Some lessons from Rogue One: You have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. However greedy, evil, vain, and cruel, power will find servants. Some of those servants will prove capable. The grownups will not protect … [Read more...]
GOTV: Cooking Up A Storm
In the late flurry of elections -- Malden has had constant campaigns since the Warren election -- I've been doing a lot of Get Out The Vote cooking. Kate’s Fourth Rule of Volunteers reads "Feed us!", after all. I've written a bit about … [Read more...]
TPM: Coakley In Trouble
Talking Points Memo: Is Martha Coakley About To Blow Another Major Race In Massachusetts? Coakley's late drop-off seems eerily reminiscent of the 2010 special election against upstart Republican candidate Scott Brown, when the Democrat … [Read more...]
The Health Connector From Armentières
(it’s only been 100 years!) With apologies in advance to Ed Lyons and MerrimackGuy, in celebration of the HealthConnector report . The Java guy from CGI, parlez-vous? The Java guy from CGI, parlez-vous? The Java guy from CGI made … [Read more...]
THE CONVENTION WENT FINE!
There is much hand-wringing about disorganization at the convention. Real conventions are complex and confusing, and this one was real: no one know how things would turn out. This convention planned to introduce a backup electronic … [Read more...]
On “Resurrecting The Liberal Project”
A century ago, a popular ex-president stood before a presidential nominating convention and concluded: We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. And, for the following century, liberals and progressives have lived under the … [Read more...]
Troll Food
The excellent EdFactor at Red Mass Group makes a modest proposal: Coalition of Right-Wing Groups Admit: MA is not conservative A diverse group of not-very-diverse people gathered in front of Faneuil Hall today to announce … [Read more...]
Preparing for the Trolls
Roughly adapted from lectures at Blogtalk 2 (Vienna, 2004) and Blogtalk Downunder (Sydney, 2005). Progressives enjoy an important technological advantage. To some extent, that advantage is inherent: progress is about the future. But in the … [Read more...]