Some useful health care links: HealthCareforMass.org discusses the proposed Health Care Constitutional Amendment. MassDefendHealthCare.org is the website for The Alliance to Defend Health Care (formerly the Ad Hoc Committee): "Bringing … [Read more...]
This one hit a rib going in
Joe Keohane, Editor of the Weekly Dig, writes about seeing Good Night and Good Luck in Cambridge. (I'm a recent Cambridge expat, with mostly fond memories.)After having lived in the storiedIsle of Cantabrigia?oftentimes several hundred … [Read more...]
Alito and choice
So it turns out that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said, on a 1985 job application, that he didn't believe that the Constitution should protect a right to abortion. The relevant sentence is this:I am particularly proud of my … [Read more...]
Slow weekend roundup
sco's got the scoop (a week late, but earlier than us = scoop) on the special elections for the the 1st Bristol, 27th Middlesex, and 2nd Worcester state rep districts. Primary January 10, election February 7. We got elections year-round in … [Read more...]
Coward
Sorry, no policy analysis in this post.George W. Bush is a coward. To hide behind "the troops" to try to deflect criticism from his own dishonesty and lousy judgement, is despicable. To use Veterans' Day as the occasion to shift … [Read more...]
Baker’s half-dozen
Earlier today, David did a terrific job of running down the six health care op-eds in the Globe today. I have nothing to add to David's takedown of the hapless Christopher Anderson, except to agree that Anderson's column was a factual … [Read more...]
Alito’s 1990 Senate questionnaire
An emerging issue in the Alito Supreme Court nomination has been his participation in cases involving parties such as Vanguard (in which he had invested a substantial amount of money) and his sister's law firm. The issue is not so … [Read more...]
Six health care op-eds
The Globe published a nice collection of six short op-eds on health care today, each from a different perspective. The authors are Gerald Algere (a businessman and board member of Greater Boston Interfaith Organization), Charlie Baker … [Read more...]