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Daily Briefing: President Bill Clinton endorses Coakley

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:34:04 -0500

President Bill Clinton has made a last-minute endorsement of Attorney General Martha Coakley as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, saying, "you can trust her to get results." Coakley was a strong Hillary Clinton supporter in the presidential election, as was one of Coakley's top supporters Senate President Therese Murray (D-Plymouth). Bubba taped a [...]

lovable liberal: Losing my religion

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:04:00 -0500

Who needs justice?

Click image for full Pat Bagley/Salt Lake Tribune cartoon. [...]

MassResistance: Why Kevin Jennings' GLSEN Got Award at Mass. Youth Pride 2007

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:01:00 -0500

"Safe Schools" czar Kevin Jennings founded and ran GLSEN. He was still executive director of that organization when it received special recognition in May 2007 at Massachusetts Youth Pride. GLSEN is behind the GSA clubs (gay/straight alliances) in the schools which funnel kids to this event. This is where GLSEN and [...]

lovable liberal: One panel Keynes

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:51:00 -0500

The simplest, most obvious fact that Republicans have to blind themselves to in order to remain blissfully ignorant of economics that acknowledges the incompleteness of the free market.

Click image for full Matt Davies/Journal News cartoon. [...]

Blue Mass. Group: We're not withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2011 after all

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:41:15 -0500

That didn't take long. NYT:

On NBC's "Meet the Press," Mr. Gates said that under the plan, 100,000 American troops would be in Afghanistan in July 2011, and "some handful, or some small number, or whatever the conditions permit, will begin to withdraw at that time."

In his prime-time address at' [...]

Blue Mass. Group: Bess Lomax Hawes

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:07:11 -0500

I'm a little late on this... OK, over a week late, but I just saw this, and in all the Senatorial fuss it seems not to have been mentioned here. Bess Lomax Hawes died on Friday, November 27.

Hawes was a folk-lorist, teacher, and singer who, in the '40s, was [...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: Conservatives, keep your powder dry and leave Tisei alone

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:25:14 -0500

This week, conservative Republicans from across the state blew a collective gasket with the announcement that Charlie Baker committed the political malpractice of selecting Senate Minority leader, and the leading Mass GOP moderate/liberal, Richard Tisei as his endorsed choice for Lieutenant Governor. Many people I've talked to, including some who' [...]

Blue Mass. Group: President Bill Clinton Urges Massachusetts to Vote Coakley

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:52:22 -0500

Wow.

President Bill Clinton will urge voters to get out and vote for Martha Coakley in Tuesday's election. Clinton recorded a phone message to be sent on Monday to more than half a million primary voter across the Commonwealth. Listen to the message here. The [...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: Will you pledge to help a Massachusetts Republican candidate in 2010?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:31:49 -0500

I have started a new Facebook Group to collect pledges of support to the Republican cause next year. The name of the group is I Pledge to Volunteer for a Massachusetts Republican in 2010.

Will you join the group and help our cause? All you have to do is [...]

Left In Lowell: Capuano in Lowell Tomorrow Night

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:22:53 -0500

Number of comments: 1

If you’re still undecided ahead of Tuesday’s election, Mike Capuano is coming to Lowell tomorrow night, at the Olympia Restaurant on 457 Market Street from 5:30pm – 6:30pm. This is a good chance to meet Mike. As most people know, I’ve endorsed Capuano in the primary.

The primary is this [...]

Chimes at Midnight: On the other hand...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:38:00 -0500

Capuano could pull it off...
Pagliuca could be fading this weekend as evidenced by his inexplicable decision to brandish the Celtic's NBA championship trophy at his campaign appearances like it was the Hammer of Thor or something. If he fades enough, the conventional wisdom seems to [...]

Viking Pundit: Can't get it out of my head ...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:37:00 -0500

Can't get it out of my head - The Boston Globe has an article titled: "Let us now praise jingles." Cos-tan-za!' [...]

Everyman: Down And Dirty

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:42:56 -0500

I'm dreaming of a jobless Christmas . . .' [...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: Gas Tax Increase Hearing Monday!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:09:10 -0500

Per www.bostonherald.com

Mass. lawmakers to hold hearing on gas tax bills
By Associated Press |

Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a series of bills that would hike the state's gasoline tax.

The gas tax, currently 23.5 cents, would increase by 50 cents under one proposal to help cover the Massachusetts Turnpike's Big [...]

Blue Mass. Group: A Message from Martha Coakley

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:44:51 -0500

A warm thanks to the BMG editors, participants and readers for this opportunity to ask you for your vote to make history on Tuesday, December 8th.

My middle class roots began in Western Massachusetts' North Adams. I grew up there when my father returned home after serving in the Navy' [...]

KnowThyNeighbor.org: Op Ed: GLBT Wake Up Call

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:38:07 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Last year we had a significant loss in California to Prop. 8. This November we had another startling loss in Maine with Question 1. Now on the heels of our most recent loss in New York I have to ask the public, have you seen enough yet [...]

Maggie's Farm: Sunday late-day outstanding and mild links

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:04:00 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Image via Mr. Free Market

Christmas books: The Dangerous Book for Boys

Good streaming Christmas music via FBC radio . It's not mall music.

Not being an economist, I always have to look up the exact definition of rent-seeking

A nation of Watanabes.' [...]

MassResistance: Details on a GLSEN Lesson Plan in American History

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:37:00 -0500

Here's a lesson plan similar to what "Safe Schools czar" Kevin Jennings might have used when he taught American history at Concord Academy. One of his GLSEN disciples, a teacher at the Harvard, Mass. high school, described her lesson plan in great detail at the 2001 GLSEN-Boston conference (maybe after picking up [...]

And Rightly So!: EPA to America: All 300+ million of us are a public danger

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:54:07 -0500

Damn the science: full speed ahead

According to a Fox News story today, the EPA is set as soon as tomorrow to “officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy”.

And since every living being is an emission source for [...]

Blue Mass. Group: Message from Mike Capuano

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:23:12 -0500

Hi folks,

Mike recorded this message for you yesterday. Thanks for being a part of this campaign.

-Roger
[...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: On "Climate Change" the Boston Globe still has its head in the sand

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:03:28 -0500

What better way to spend a snowy Sunday then by reading real newspapers? I've not read an actual hard copy Sunday newspaper for about three months. It's something I miss, so I trudged out through the snow to the store to pick up copies of the Sunday Globe, Sunday Boston' [...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: Lowell Sun endorses Scott Brown, No Dem!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:03:26 -0500

Yesterday's Lowell Sun endorsed Republican Scott Brown for United States Senate in the Republican Primary. In a shocker they refused to endorse any of the four Democrats! Their editors did not hold much back and in my opinion are foreshadowing a Scott Brown general election endorsement.
Brown's' [...]

View from the 'Bridge: @jessekb tweets for week of 2009-12-06

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:01:00 -0500

Ruins of Pompeii on Google Street View: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pompeii,+italy+ruins&sll=40.716428,1... # [...]

Maggie's Farm: It's...the Arts

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:56:00 -0500

Number of comments: 2

Is art "whatever you can get away with"?

Roger Kimball offers us The art world vs. the world of art, and announces the annual art edition of The New Criterion.

[...]

Everyman: Naughty Or Nice?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:53:29 -0500

Or both? [...]

Everyman: Over To You, Donks

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:47:51 -0500

In the mid-term elections of 2006, Democrats took control of Congress. [...]

Maggie's Farm: Playing For Change: Peace Through Music

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:44:20 -0500

Number of comments: 4

Forget ideology. Forget harsh realities. Suspend skepticism.

For just a little while, enjoy a truly remarkable, unique, more than pleasurable musical experience. Experience the cross-blending of superb musicians and voices from around the globe.

My family, from 4 to 62, sat transfixed before the TV one late night last [...]

Massachusetts Liberal: T stands for turmoil

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0500

When the folks who run the MBTA can't agree on the most pressing needs, what are we supposed to do?

The Globe's closer look at the D'Allesandro report -- and the conflicting responses of T management to the seriousness of the problems -- also reveals the rot within [...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: Weekly Constitutional Office Money Watch Week 5

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:55:21 -0500

Here is your fifth installment of the Massachusetts Constitutional Office Money watch. There are 47 more to go. Mary Connaughton is on the board!

Gubernatorial Race

Charlie Baker (R): $85,750 in four deposits this week. The monthly report is out and Charlie Raised $528k, spent $238k, and had $1.13M in the bank. [...]

internet128.com: Pictures of WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub’s street team hitting the road

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:38:54 -0500

A couple of months ago we snapped the photos below of Boston sports radio station WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub’s street team heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The photographer tells me the driver in one of the vehicles laughed at the attention and also that there were hot [...]

Red Mass Group - Front Page: Poll & Open Thread: BIGGEST NEWS STORY 2009!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:27:18 -0500

Wow. It's already December and time to begin our second annual informal set of awards. Last year these threads were very popular and after so much infighting during the past few weeks, I hope we can have some more fun with them again as we wrap up 2009. 10.2% unemployment? [...]

New England Republican: Master of what Universe

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:57:00 -0500

Here’s the pandering Pan Pacific President, truly a Podesta puppet.

Just think of the lives saved, if FDR did this Dec 8, 1941.
Truman’s nasty deed unnecessary too, Jon Stewart wetting his pants happy!

Everybody would have learned Japanese or German without spending money at the Berlitz [...]

No Looking Backwards: I Thought That Sounded Familiar

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:53:00 -0500

Wall Street Journal - December 2009:

If Democrats want faster job creation by next November, they'll do nothing at all.

[...]

Adjourn for the year, spend December with the family, come back in 2011.

No Looking Backwards - July 2009:

You Really Wanna' [...]

internet128.com: Facing down history

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:49:48 -0500

In 2006 Massachusetts progressives carried a sub-prime mortgage lender to victory in the state’s gubernatorial election, essentially heralding the collapse of the mortgage bubble. One wonders what disaster their choice of candidate in the senate race will foretell?

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New England Republican: Safely see/sense what a Liberal/Prog sees!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:18:20 -0500

Do you want to know what our liberal politicians see/sense?

Watch the video and follow the directions exactly.

[www.youtube.com]

Gorebots probably see the world the same way. No more guessing! [...]

Bill Manzi.Com: Gavin Newsom Withdraws

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:01:43 -0500

In a post made some time ago I had pointed to the California Governors race as one that was going to be very interesting. It will still be interesting, but maybe a little less so now that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has pulled out of the race for the [...]

greylocknews: upstreet Contributers to Read at WordPlay December 12

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:46:59 -0500

NORTH ADAMS, MA- Saturday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m. WordPlay, a monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books, will be held at Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street. Featured writers will read from their work, which has recently appeared in upstreet number five, a nationally distributed [...]

Maggie's Farm: Climategate update

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:31:00 -0500

Number of comments: 7

Just when it seemed as if, finally, there could be some real open discussion about the data, ClimateGate Professor Calls G-Warming Skeptic 'A**hole' on Live TV

Climate scientist: There is no smoking hot spot

The other scientists held their nose in public. Bolt - Climategate: [...]

Maggie's Farm: From today's Lectionary: The voice of one crying out in the wilderness

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:03:00 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Luke 3:1-6

3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,

3:2 during [...]