Scot Lehigh is up to his usual in this column about Rep. Dan Winslow. Scratch the surface of a complex issue. Take at face value the pronouncements of a glib and ambitious politician. That's great journalism. Lehigh just loves Dan Winslow's … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 4: SURPRISE-NOT!
This blogger just can't get any rest, because the hits just keep on coming. There were two education policy pieces at the Globe on Saturday, March 6, one semi-surprising, one utterly predictable. No, regrettably, they did not involve Diane … [Read more...]
Whoppers Of The Week
And finally, speaking of gifts: The gift that keeps on giving -- Jeff Jacoby. One thing that's always baffled me is how racists think they can speak in "code" that nobody but other racists will understand. Jeff Jacoby, who once … [Read more...]
Global warming deniers
Mr. Gore says the overwhelming scientific opinion is that humans are causing climate warming. Mr. Jacoby finds one scientist who thinks the jury is still out on that. Mr. Gore says that in a random sample of over 900 scientific papers about … [Read more...]
Jeff Jacoby, GOP Waterboy At Your Service!
The Big Dig is indeed a monument to O'Neill. It captures perfectly the costly big-government sloppiness for which he was the poster child. Only in the public sector, where market discipline is nonexistent and financial losses are the … [Read more...]