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Friday, July 30, 2010

A perfect storm for Gulf Coast

WASHINGTON - When people think of New Orleans, most think of jazz, hurricane cocktails, Katrina - and now the oil spill in...

Dare call it treason

If we needed yet another example of Washington’s self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified...

Afghan war not lost cause

The House vote on an emergency spending bill shows that President Barack Obama faces weakening support among his own Democrats...

Prez vogues on ‘The View’

So President Barack Obama is aware that Lindsay Lohan is spending time in jail and - despite cracking a joke about her just...

A reckoning for Rangel

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) tried like hell to avoid a trial over his alleged legal and ethical violations, and in this...

Time’s running out

Senate President Therese Murray and Gov. Deval Patrick were already worried about saturating the gambling market by allowing...

Mel’s gone mad

Is anyone else as sick as I am hearing about Mel Gibson’s obscene rantings and expletives (“Mel Gibson quite shaken over Bond, James Bond,”...

Lots in a name

The negativity toward this is just too cynical (“Mass. gov. signs college name-change bill,” July 28). There...

Taxes sink industry

Sandwiched between tax-free havens to the north and south, fewer and fewer boats are built in, bought in, registered in and...

GOP’s blameless

President Barack Obama’s desperate pep talks to rally support for Democrats is laughable (“Obama: Give Dems time...

Abuse speculated

The fact that oil prices rise on speculation leads me to believe that it is not a supply-and-demand issue that follows normal economics (“Oil prices rise...

Profile in courage

Rep. Kay Khan is a true champion of “we the people” for wanting to investigate all this so-called sick leave....
Thursday, July 29, 2010

And there’s no end to ill-advised policy

A Gallup poll reveals that only 11 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in Congress, and though it’s...

Absent accountability, Mass. schools fail

Amid the controversy over Massachusetts adopting national standards, few other education issues have gotten any attention....

Gov, veto ‘popular’ bill

There is still time for Gov. Deval Patrick to recognize the flaws in a bill that would upend the way Massachusetts votes...

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It’s time we honored overachieving hacks

Howie Carr So Sen. Stanley Rosenberg had to fly down to Louisville to accept an...


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