Gov Rick Scott reverses course, will support state health care exchanges, having decided that getting re-elected on false promises and certain eventual state bankruptcy is more important than keeping the promises he made to those who elected him in the first place. Another hip that can’t be broken soon enough.  

Wonder if Selectman Jeffries had a dream in which Paul Revere rode by his window with a pitchfork. At any rate, a follow-up to yesterday‘s post, courtesy of RI Red: A thunderous round of applause and a standing ovation greeted the news Wednesday night that a proposed town bylaw to restrict some assault weapons was going to be officially withdrawn. The overwhelming majority of the close to 400 people who

I can’t remember who originally linked Cass Sunstein’s review of Sarah Conly’s book, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, in the comments here, but I did take the opportunity to make note of it on my facebook page.  And rather than re-write what I’ve already written on this in another venue, I’ll just repeat here what I’ve already noted elsewhere, albeit with some expansion. And that is this:  even the title of

Which is in fact his entire strategy, politically — as regular readers of this site have known for quite some time now:   Obama positions himself to blame Republicans for his own executive shortcomings — after all, sequestration was his idea, developed precisely because he knew he could later demagogue it, and that the Republican House leadership, made manifest in a quivering, weeping bowl of orange surrender jello (and prodded

Well, in his mind he did. Defense Tech: Iran photo shop artists are at it again. This time they didn’t just put Iran’s supposed new stealth jet on a show floor, they have it flying over Mount Damavand. The staff at GIZMODO took notice and quickly tracked down the stock photo at PickyWallpapers?.com that was then featured in the media blitz for Iran’s supposed Qaher 313 stealth fighter. We’ve been

Or referenced and cited only when it is politically expedient to call on its protections. At all other times it is but an old document quilled by whigged white misogynistic racists of the propertied gentry who, like savages, brought insurrection and destruction against a dignified Monarchy.  Much of it right from inside Massachusetts! To wit:  “Town of Westford Moving Forward with Unprecedented Gun Ban” (this being one of those occasions

From my email just now comes this heart-wrenching, emotionally-drenched plea to do something to stop the gun violence: Friend — My dad, Reuven Rahamim, was killed this past September in a mass shooting. I was 17 years old, one of 15 children who lost a parent that day. I’m honoring his memory — and those of many others who have fallen — by doing something about gun violence. Whether you’ve

The most transparent administration ever!  Which we know to be true because Obama consistently asserts it.  And in a postmodern presidency, where anti-foundationalism is the ruling “philosophy,” it’s the assertion that acts as the performative, not anything concrete that the assertion refers to.   Meaning, manufactured consent and perception, built on the repetition of assertions and parroted by a compliant media, come to count as fact, whereas actual fact is to

Or at least, that’s how I’ve chosen to paraphrase Alec Baldwin’s denial that he committed what his liberal / progressive pals would call a Hate Crime. Faux News: Alec Baldwin’s latest squabble with the media may have him in some serious hot water. An NYPD rep told FOX 411 the 54-year-old actor is being investigated following an altercation he allegedly got into with a New York Post photographer. “Our hate