Regarding the new tax regime -- start with Thomas Edsall at the NYT: You Cannot Be Too Cynical About the Republican Tax Bill [I'm going to leave the big print there.] In it, quoted experts have these assessments: The most serious … [Read more...]
Why Must We Use Tax Dollars to Prop Up Millionaires and Billionaires?
The Walmart family is worth billions of dollars and yet, they are not willing to pay their employees a wage that will sustain an individual, much less a family, in a majority of those employed by the company. Dunkin Donuts CEO makes … [Read more...]
Looking Ahead to 2018
Conditions are incredibly favorable, by all accounts. Generic Dem is way ahead of Generic Republican. So what is our message for 2018? And yes, this is more or less a pretext to mention the Countdown Clock. I love it, but honestly, the … [Read more...]
Genuinely hopeful news on housing
We've been writing here about the cost and shortage of housing in Greater Boston for over a decade. This actually sounds like hopeful news: Aiming for the construction of 135,000 new housing units by 2025, the Baker administration on … [Read more...]
SSCI Explores Russian Involvement With Jill Stein
Someone is finally taking Jill Stein and the Green Party seriously: the United States Senate's Intelligence Committee. Buzzfeed reports: The top congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election … [Read more...]
DNI Declares Trump a Russian Spy or a Tool
Extraordinary. This not just anybody. This is JAMES CLAPPER speaking. The former Director of National Intelligence for the United States of America. https://twitter.com/cnn/status/942881446821355520 … [Read more...]
When they went low, we went local.
Last week, Alabama did something remarkable. Last month, Melrose did. My family moved to Melrose two years ago around the time of the last city election. I was excited to get involved with our new city, and was appointed to the Melrose … [Read more...]
Time to Prepare for Mueller’s Firing
As much as Tuesday's special election result in Alabama was welcome, events over the rest of the week have been ominous in many ways, and in fact the Alabama results might have sped them along. Republicans now seem to have accepted that … [Read more...]
Rep. Lyons, I Do Not Think That Amendment Means What You Think It Means
State House News informs us that on Wednesday, in the Great Hall in the State House, Representative James Lyons and The Massachusetts Family Institute will be holding their second annual Celebration of Christmas, featuring a view of the … [Read more...]
John Kenneth Galbraith’s truth
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises of moral philosophy : that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." … [Read more...]
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