The Boston Herald reports Attorney General Tom Reilly raised just over $1 million in campaign donations in 2004. That boosts the likely Democratic candidate for governor's overall campaign war chest to more than $2.2 million. Reilly pulled … [Read more...]
Flip, flop, flip, flop
The AP reports that House Republicans have not only ditched their plan to make it harder for the Ethics Committee to find ethical violations, but have also reversed course on the "DeLay Rule," which (as we discussed here a little … [Read more...]
Dems need to clean up their act on Clarence Thomas
Well, the new year has brought lots of commentary on the ongoing Chief Justice derby. Law prof Steven Lubet opines here (hat tip: How Appealing) that Democrats should not filibuster Scalia for CJ, because (among other things) Scalia … [Read more...]
MA Election Law Violator Bankrolls Romney, Bush and State GOP
Major Massachusetts Republican underwriter and convicted election law violator John W. Childs, one of Romney's major supporters, has joined a select list of donors by pledging $100,000 to Bush's upcoming inauguration, according to the … [Read more...]
R.I.P. Shirley Chisholm
I love this quote from Shirley Chisholm's 1970 book, as reported in the NY Times's obituary today:Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their … [Read more...]
Homeland insecurity
A hat tip to Ben for noting that the Trust for America's Health has rated Massachusetts as tied for last (with Alaska, arguably the state least likely to be hit by a terrorist attack) in emergency preparedness for a bioterrorist … [Read more...]
The Novak mystery … solved?
Somehow I missed the NY Times's latest article on the Valerie Plame affair (hat tip: MyDD) and the mysterious role of douchebag of liberty Robert Novak, who for reasons unknown has remained unscathed as other reporters face jail time, even … [Read more...]
Fool me twice, uh… We can’t get fooled again!
AARP also joins in the pre-mortem of Bush's Social Insecurity plan.This could be fun: I'll nominate the SS privatization as the first nominee for the 2005 Great Thud of Non-Event. You can nominate your own Bush initiatives for a big ol' … [Read more...]