By Lee Harrison, member, Democratic State Committee, former chair, Berkshire Brigades Recently, Bill Kristol – the Republican thought leader – tweeted this:  “Doesn’t the pathetic GOP accommodation of Trump mean that the GOP after … [Read more...]

The NYT's Timothy Egan nails it: "Donald Trump’s supporters know exactly what he stands for: hatred of immigrants, racial superiority, a sneering disregard of the basic civility that binds a society. Educated and poorly educated alike, … [Read more...]

The Republican Party that existed during my youth, one that included the likes of Dwight Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Senator Edward Brooke is long dead. Clearly, it’s no longer the Party of Lincoln. In fact, it’s no exaggeration … [Read more...]

I fully understand why many Mass Dems love what Bernie Sanders is saying and intend to vote for him on March 1.  Four decades ago, I felt the same way – only the candidate then was Sen. George McGovern.  After years of Vietnam under Johnson … [Read more...]

From Politico Mass Playbook: DELEO TO THROW SUPPORT BEHIND CHARTER SCHOOLS ON WEDNESDAY -- "Prepping for charter school fight," by Hillary Chabot, Boston Herald: "Beacon Hill bosses Robert A. DeLeo and Stanley C. Rosenberg will sound off … [Read more...]

Globe headline: "Northeastern to equip officers with semiautomatic rifles" I went there in the 1960s but am ashamed of the school now. Sadly, NU President Joseph Aoun seem to be rejecting FDR ("The only thing we have to fear is...fear … [Read more...]

So, tell me again why grassroots Dems should support the leadership? "He’s “doing very well,” Treasurer Deb Goldberg said, at the state Democratic convention of all places. At the same confab, colleague Joshua Miller pointed out, Attorney … [Read more...]

Ann Berwick, former Massachusetts’ undersecretary for energy and later DPU chair in the Patrick administration, makes a solid case that more gas lines may not be the answer to all our energy problems.  In an Aug. 17 Globe Op-Ed she says the … [Read more...]

Last Thursday, at its quarterly meeting in the town of Amesbury, the Democratic State Committee passed the following resolution: Making ‘Reducing Income Inequality’ the Theme of the 2015 Massachusetts Democratic Convention WHEREAS,  … [Read more...]

With officials in South Carolina now forced to remove the Stars & Bars from their statehouse grounds (Charlie Baker notwithstanding) and Mississippi thinking of doing the same in the wake of the mass murder in Charleston, maybe, just … [Read more...]