The Rev. Pat Robertson is dangerous. Not because he’s going to hurt you or anyone else. He is dangerous first because he has a megaphone – his own TV show, The 700 Club, from which he can spew the kind of judgmental venom that he did this week after the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. Hundreds [...]
So, Mark McGwire “came clean.” He used steroids during the 1990s, including 1998 when he hit 70 homers. I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to hear that. But, of course, he’s not really coming clean. That is not shocking either. He’s still tap dancing around the truth. In an interview with Bob Costas, [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Taylor Armerding on Dec 8th, 2009 View Comments
There was our former governor, Michael Dukakis, arguing this week against allowing casinos in Massachusetts. Yeah, he made passing reference to the moral case – we don’t need more addiction – but his real pitch was that the state could get the additional money it needs by repealing “worthless” tax exemptions. That’s some serious rhetorical [...]
Supposedly, talk radio megamouth Rush Limbaugh is the best weapon Democrats have. Democratic strategists James Carville and Paul Begala said they discovered in polls conducted last fall that Limbaugh was “deeply unpopular,” particularly among young people. Even more unpopular than “God-damn-America” Jeremiah Wright. So, when Limbaugh famously said recently that he wanted President Barack Obama [...]
Posted in Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 View Comments
Remember, not so long ago, when dissent was “patriotic”? Remember when Democrats who favored immediate withdrawal from Iraq – who hoped the U.S. would lose the war because it would make President Bush look bad – would throw tantrums if anybody called them on it, because, they said, this was an unfair questioning of their [...]
Posted in Pension Tidal Wave, State issues, Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 View Comments
I didn’t expect, for a moment, that Gov. Deval Patrick would bring anything resembling tax relief to Massachusetts. He never really promised to, anyway. If you listened to what he said during his campaign, it was that if the income tax was reduced to 5 percent after 18 years of a “temporary” surtax, then property [...]
How disgusting is it that President Bush is still trying to ram things through Congress with the same, tired old politics of fear? I mean, first it was the weapons of mass destruction, and now it’s that we’re going to sink into an irreversible depression if we don’t hand him $840 billion for some kind [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Jan 28th, 2009 View Comments
If you had any lingering doubts about the Statehouse being a palace of delusion, listen to some of your elected representatives defend their vote for Sal DiMasi as House Speaker, just three weeks before he resigned under an ethical cloud that grows blacker by the day. Read about it here. Rep. John Keenan, D-Salem: “I [...]
Posted in Local politics, Municipal meltdown, Taylor Armerding on Jan 5th, 2009 View Comments
I agree with those who say that the few thousand bucks area school districts spent last November sending their superintendents and some school committee members to a conference on Cape Cod (read about it here) was no big deal – at least when it comes to breaking budgets. The top outlay of $4,500, which Methuen [...]
Lots of stories this week on how President-elect Barack Obama is going to have to do something about global warming in a hurry, because we’re already tipping past the tipping point, according to all credible scientists. The most interesting factoid came late in these apocalyptic reports, however, where it noted that 2008 was going to [...]
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