Sunday News Roundup

Good morning Conflucians! The big news is still the massive 8.8 earthquake in Chile and the luckily mild tsunami that followed. Here’s an update, though I’m sure there will be more today. The NYTimes Caucus Blog has the sunday political show line up, for whatever that is worth. Sounds like Nancy Pelosi is planning on making [...]

Saturday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! A giant 8.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Chile and triggered a tsunami President Michelle Bachelet confirmed 47 deaths and said more were possible. Telephone and power lines were down, making damage assessments difficult in the early morning darkness. “Never in my life have I experienced a quake like this, it’s like the [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! TGIF. The weather continues to be very very strange. We in southern New England are being left out of another terrible winter storm. I’m reading that there is an “intense winter storm” in the Northeast: A huge, windy winter storm lingered Friday over the Northeast, cutting power to at least a half-million [...]

News and Live Blogging the “Health Insurance Summit”

I’m watching the Health Care Insurance Summit and that seems to be the big news this morning. But there ARE other things going on in the world . . . Hummer’s suffering is about to be ended. The lumbering giant is being put down by patriarchal General Motors, the American motoring giant 61%-owned by the [...]

Not again! I’m sick of it OPEN THREAD

OK, I’m screaming UNCLE!!  I’ve had enough of the white stuff; and now they’re calling for up to 12″ with 60mph winds here in the Eastern areas of PA. I mean really, did mother nature *have* to add that last component?  I’ll be out and about tomorrow in this mess.  Now, what is it I’m [...]

Wednesday News You Could Probably Do Without

Wow, didn’t see this coming: Wall Street shifting political contributions to Republicans Commercial banks and high-flying investment firms have shifted their political contributions toward Republicans in recent months amid harsh rhetoric from Democrats about fat bank profits, generous bonuses and stingy lending policies on Wall Street. (I’m guessing the next media darling won’t be a [...]

Amy Bishop and Massachusetts Politics

I’m still obsessed with the Amy Bishop case–most of all I’m fascinated by the events of December 6, 1986, when Bishop shot and killed her younger brother Seth. As I’m sure you all remember, Bishop is now in jail, after being charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder for [...]

Monday, Lunch Break News-Hour

President Obama posted his version of a health care plan today. (Ezra says, “Actually, it’s not a plan. It’s 11 pages of fixes, modifications, and small additions to the House and Senate plans.”) I read through the whole thing twice and damned if I can tell where a couple with no kids – or a [...]

Don’t mock the mockers

Lynn Sweet: In her Tea Party speech, Palin mocked Obama by asking “how’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for ya?” I asked White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett recently what she thought of Palin’s dig. Said Jarrett: “Making fun of the folks’ real, sincere hopes for change that Americans across our country felt, I [...]

Black History Month: Remembering and celebrating Yosemite’s Buffalo Soldiers

In honor of Black History month it’s not  difficult to find subjects for showcasing the immeasurable contributions of African Americans to both our country in the world.  I could talk of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, or any one of the many inventors, artists, scientists, politicians, and political activists whose efforts [...]