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Don’t be in such a Rush

Posted in Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2009 Comments

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 to [...]

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Bulletin: Dissent no longer patriotic

Posted in Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 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 [...]

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Big Brother Deval

Posted in Pension Tidal Wave, State issues, Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 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 [...]

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Going to Denver

Posted in 6th District, Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2008 Comments

There was an upset of sorts in Saturday’s caucus for the election of delegates pledged to Hillary Clinton at this summer Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Female delegates are Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll and veteran party activist Agnes Ricko of Lynn. But in the contest for the two delegate slots reserved for males, Rowley’s Stan Slepoy [...]

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Another Republican in 6th District race

Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2008 Comments

There’s another North Shore Republican vying for the right to take on incumbent U.S. Rep. John Tierney, D-Salem.
Richard Baker, a West Newbury resident and former member of the Pentucket Regional School Committee, announced his intentions via a release to local news organizations this week. Rick Barton, the Republican from Manchester-by-the-Sea who ran against Tierney two [...]

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Lottery’s latest: Home Keno parlors

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2008 Comments

Opinions are decidedly mixed over whether Massachusetts should allow casino gambling. But a new program put forward by the Massachusetts Lottery Commission could turn every pharmacy and convenience store into a gaming outlet.
It’s called “Keno-to-go” and would greatly expand the number of locations at which one can buy Keno tickets. These outlets had been resricted [...]

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Another pol caught in St. Pat’s briar patch

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2008 Comments

Those annual St. Patrick’s Day roasts can be dangerous affairs for Bay State politicians who, nevertheless, seem to relish the opportunity they provide to tell bad jokes and sing off key.
For years legislative leaders used to poke fun at the taxpayers for allowing them to play fast and loose with their money. But they’ve found [...]

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How to spin it

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2008 Comments

The Barack Obama camp is spinning like mad today trying to put a happy face on Tuesday’s disappointing results. Here’s the e-mail that went out to supporters this morning, courtesy of a reader in Peabody:
We may not know the final outcome of today’s voting until morning, but the results so far make one thing clear.
When [...]

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Debate season on hiatus

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2008 Comments

Won’t you miss those debates?
For months now Republicans and Democrats have been slugging it out on live TV. And the ratings have been surprisingly good even when they’ve been aired on relatively hard-to-find channels like MSNBC.
They allowed John McCain to show how tough he can be, putting Mitt Romney is his place for flip-flopping on [...]

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A good, ol’-time political smear

Posted in Ken Johnson, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2008 Comments

So I’m sure by now you’ve seen this picture. Someone, it is suspected from the Hillary Clinton campaign, leaked it to the Drudge Report. And it since has been picked up and commented on by newspapers across the country — and even in England.
It’s a good, ol’-time political smear, designed to play on fears that [...]

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