Last week, Massachusetts held its special senate election primary to fill John Kerry’s vacated seat. Unlike most of you registered voters out there, (a certain member of the MPI staff included), I actually voted. And, as usual, the person I voted for did not win. Around the same time, Great [...]
This past weekend, like many others in the Boston area, I took the time to make my way to Copley Square to pay respect to those lost in the Boston marathon terror attack. The memorial site, though crowded, remained an emotional tribute to those whose lives were taken by the [...]
I have been having trouble forming coherent thoughts lately. Maybe it’s the weather. Or the fact that politics can be relatively exhausting, especially if you work with people who would hate you if they knew what you were thinking. Still, I did manage to eke one intriguing revelation out of [...]
Recently, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow discussed the recent Massachusetts Republican straw poll, at which state Representative Daniel Winslow was chosen to run for the vacant US Senate seat. Maddow described the event, which was held at the luxurious Danversport Yacht Club, as painting the wrong picture for the Republican party. Maddow [...]
To be frank, I find talking about the sequestration boring. The cuts are about the equivalent for us normal people deciding that we’ll switch to store-brand cereal for a couple months to save a few bucks every week. But talk of sequestration is hard to avoid these days, what with [...]
In general, I prefer to ignore anything that MSNBC says. But sometimes I am bored and want to yell at the television. Or computer. Like this morning, for example. Except it wasn’t exactly out of boredom, but more by accident that I ran into The Maddow Blog‘s article “‘Pack journalism’ [...]
Just because there’s a blizzard in Massachusetts, it doesn’t mean the politics cool down. Actually, when the governor issues a state-wide driving ban, complete with punishment of $500 and 1 year in prison, things are bound to heat up: RT @bluemassgroup: Gov Patrick bans non-critical travel on MA roads starting [...]
If you are a resident of Massachusetts, you probably spent a good part of last Fall being told that the middle class was “getting hammered.” But who exactly is doing the thrusting of said proverbial hammer, into the warm, moist, drunkenly passed out opening of the middle class? Could it, [...]
In the 1980s, the first lady of Haiti had air conditioning installed in the National Palace so she could wear her fur coats. It’s an all the more disgusting story when you realize exactly how poor the average Haitian was at the time (it’s not any better now), and that [...]
Remember how, starting in early 2011, mobs of public school teachers and other public sector union members and associated agitators descended on the state house in Madison, Wisconsin when Republican Governor Scott Walker proposed that public sector workers actually contribute something toward their pensions and health care plans? At the [...]
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