So, the lege is taking up Romney's Extra Cuddly Death Penalty? tonight. Won't pass. We're too busy trying to keep people from being killed in the first place. Somehow that's not cuddly enough for Our Guv.Yawn. Wouldn't it be great to have a … [Read more...]
kos dummy post
Health Care: From Despair to HopeHealth care seems to be the juggernaut issue for the next several years -- one which both parties have tried to avoid. It's closing in on all of us, one way or another: Costs continue to spiral upwards to … [Read more...]
Healthy Links
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...]