Ok here we are on another Monday Morning with Thousands of foreclosures going on daily coast to coast and we are bailing out another one of the big banks with cash and insurance way beyond the bailout provisions layed out in the … [Read more...]
Barack Obama’s politics of hope is NOT socialism
Some have ignorantly and incorrectly labeled Barack Obama a socialist. I would instead argue that Barack Obama has read, studied, and learned from the work of psychologist Abraham Maslow. I say this because to have a functioning … [Read more...]
Stunning Op Ed in the Boston Globe – by the new President of Pakistan
It says something that the newly-elected President of Pakistan has, himself, written and posted an Op Ed in the Boston Globe. Perhaps Boston was chosen in part because of the Sloan School - or Harvard. Only Asif Ali Zardari, the … [Read more...]
WHY sex scandals matter in the US of A: Blog “atlanticfreepress” asks the real question
Here is a link to an intriguing post: http://www.atlanticfreepress.c... Personally, I don't mind the sex as much as the whining and lying - I would prefer a guy or gal who did the randy to just say "yeah, so what" and then get on with … [Read more...]
Patriot Ledger talks Same Day Reg, Boston Globe says No More Floridas
Should 537 votes in Florida decide a presidential election, when one candidate is beating the other by over more than half a million votes nationwide? Today's Boston Globe says "no" to more Floridas, and "yes" to the National Popular Vote … [Read more...]
For enhanced “civic engagement” bring back cable coverage of formal legislative sessions
"Legislators behave differently when their constituents are watching" - a quote from the book Lobbying on a Shoestring that I believe is a true statement. Excerpt: http://www.realclout.org/ppi/p... Digital streaming is no … [Read more...]
United States of America is the #1 Prison State reports the Boston Globe
No wonder Massachusetts spends more on incarceration then education. Each adolescent committed to the Department of Youth Services costs $23,000 a year - the tuition and fees at a community college are about $3000 a year. Each young … [Read more...]
A Modest Proposal: Vote your conscience on Feb 5th
And later: One thing is clear... whichever candidate does get the nomination, his or her chance of victory will rest largely on the ideas Mr. Edwards brought to the campaign. There's much discussion going on about who the Edwards people are … [Read more...]
Democratic Caucuses on February 2, 2008 – the building blocks of the party
To "steer the barge" of party politics in a new direction more progressives need to show up for caucuses, and become delegates, and show up and help out and become part of these committees. It is too late to file papers to be on a … [Read more...]
Yesterday’s rally of Lawyers in support of the Pakistani Lawyers
The President of the Asian Bar Association, as well as Amnesty International, the Hispanic Bar Association and others spoke. I recognized members of the distric attorneys staff, senior partners from law firms, the Executive Director … [Read more...]