Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Voting day is just about a week away. Here in Massachusetts, we have a closely contested Governor’s race and two close races for two house seats long held by Democrats. The latest polls show the Democrats leading for now. Governor Deval Patrick leads his two opponents in the race for governor but [...]

TGIF News and Views

Good Morning and TGIF, fellow Conflucians!!! Raw Story has an “exclusive” on the toxicity of the dispersants that BP and the Coast Guard used to cover up the massive amount of oil that was released into the Gulf of Mexico by the Deepwater Horizon well from hell. I used the quotation marks, because I wrote [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! I took a little mini-break from my usual obsessive news reading over the holiday weekend. I figured if anything huge happened, someone would post it at TC and I’d learn about it that way. This week will be full of manufactured news from the White House, as President Obama goes on a [...]

Friday Late Morning News and Views

Hello Conflucians!!! TGIF!! I’ve got a potpourri of articles this morning with no overarching theme. I supposed Elena Kagan’s confirmation is the big story today, but I really can’t get too excited about it. She seems to me to be such a mediocre choice. The Politico says that the vote totals were a shot across [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! It’s an iced coffee-type of day here in the Boston area. Boy, this hot weather just won’t quit. We had a couple of days break awhile back and other than that it’s been hot and humid here. The big news right now is that something is seeping from the ocean floor around [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Congress comes back today after their week-long holiday. While they were relaxing or campaigning, millions of unemployed Americans struggled to make ends meet and worried about their long-term future well being. Two million long-term unemployed people have been cut off of unemployment benefits in the six weeks that Congress has been fighting [...]

Lazy Saturday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Is it possible the NE heat wave is coming to an end? The forecast for my area says possible thunderstorms for the next few days and today temperatures in the 80s. From the Weather Channel: A cold front will sweep through the Northeast today and tomorrow finally bringing an end to the [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! TGIF!! There is quite a potpourri of interesting news out there this morning. BP OIL GUSHER NEWS On the BP gusher front, the Washington Post has a story on BP’s latest efforts to stem the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico: “BP prepares to change well’s cap, then start plugging [...]

Thursday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! It’s gonna be another hot one in the Northeast today, maybe a little bit better than the past couple of days, but still really hot and humid. New temperature records were set yesterday in Washington, DC (102), Philadelphia (103), Baltimore (101), New York (100), and Trenton, NJ (103). Here in the Boston [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Talk about a slow news day. It’s the day after the Fourth of July, Congress is in recess for a week, and everyone else has today off. Congress is taking this long break after after the Senate refused to extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans during the worst economic crisis since [...]