As inevitably as death and taxes, the Boston Globe has come out for Martha Coakley for Senator from Massachusetts. What’s far more interesting than the completely expected endorsement is the way the paper did it: tepidly. The editors could barely … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: I got word from a commenter that Kennedy’s campaign manager, Dave Galusi, had written back to him that Kennedy is forbidden by law to drop out. Perhaps a better tack, then, would be to write to Galusi (dave@joekennedyforsenate.com) asking … Continue reading →
As if tiny Haiti didn’t have it bad enough, now it has been hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.0. Buildings in Haiti are flimsy even without a temblor, and many have fallen, with extremely high casualties very likely. Communication … Continue reading →
If Sarah Palin had said what Martha Coakley did, it would be headline news everywhere, and Saturday Night Live would devote at least one program to it, maybe several. Here’s the quote from Coakley’s debate with Brown: “I think we … Continue reading →
Pound for pound, Joe Rollino was one of the strongest men who ever lived. Five-foot five inches tall, weighing between 125 and 150 for most of his life, he set records for all sorts of muscular feats: lifted 475 pounds … Continue reading →
An interesting contrast in approaches. First Coakley, in traditional negative-ad style: Nothing in there about why Coakley is good, only about why she thinks Brown would be bad. Coakley doesn’t even appear in the ad, nor do we hear her … Continue reading →
…about Obama’s foreign policy in the midst of such pressing domestic issues. But John Bolton is here to remind us, and it’s not a pretty picture. [ADDENDUM: This should also be a big, big story, although health care reform seems … Continue reading →
In my “Avatar” post, I wrote: [The movie] fits in so nicely with the current notions of many of the AGW and PETA folks””that humans (especially of the first-world variety) are the scourge of an otherwise wonderful earth””that it makes … Continue reading →
What do Martha Coakley and Dan Quayle have in common? Well, let’s see: (1) They are both lawyers. (2) They both have been affiliated with their states’ AG offices (she as Attorney General, he as an investigator for the Consumer … Continue reading →
Check this out, from tonight’s debate in the Massachusetts Senatorial race: In case you missed the money quote, Scott Brown said: With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy seat and it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat. … Continue reading →
A great many of us on this blog have been saying this sort of thing for quite some time, about why the Democrats don’t seem too worried about a voter backlash. In the article, John F. Gaski speculates about the … Continue reading →
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this one, because I’m very tired of the petty stupidity and transparent partisanship involved. The word “racist” has almost no meaning today, except as a weapon to throw at opponents. … Continue reading →