Uh oh, they are on to us...

Bad news people – they are on to us. Our plan to destroy the Democrats from within has been exposed. Not sure there is anything they can do to stop us now – but the press appears to be waking up to the fact that President Obama is a Republican plant. He got inside the Democrat party, and then started doing really loony things for which the Democrats will be blamed for generations! Just like we planned! Please – if anyone is approached by the press, remember, Karl Rove had nothing – NOTHING! – to do with this.

My only concern with the execution of the plan is that our man Obama is tanking things too early and too obviously. I mean really - tacking on a trillion dollars of debt in the middle of a recession? That is just too obvious an effort to discredit Democrats. The crazy people he has brought into his administration, the comical fumbling of foreign affairs, nationalizing the auto industry, wrecking the healthcare industry – just wacko stuff each and every day, all to create issues for the Republicans to clean the clock of the Democrats for years to come!

The plan has worked well my friends, maybe too well.

Author: Mark

Wow – how low can he go?

This latest Rasmussen poll might cause a few waves tomorrow:



Obama support is completely collapsing. Pushing nationalized healthcare instead of focusing on 10% unemployment is going to be looked at by historians as a blunder of epic proportions. There are just 11 days left for the Democrats to jam thru Obamacare before the holidays put Congressmen back in their districts to face voter blow-back. If the Republicans can keep fighting for those 11 days and defeat the bill, the country will be able to breathe a huge sigh of relief. Ironically, if the Republicans succeed, it will probably be better for the Democrats in the 2010 election than if the Democrats succeed in jamming this legislation down the throats of voters.

That poll is showing a dramatic decline in voter support. Let’s see if the Democrats notice.

Author: Mark

Tick Tock, Tick Tock

The Iranians are playing the US for fools, again. They keep promising that they might, someday, agree to stop developing nuclear bombs. Someday. Let’s just chat about it a bit more. Obama offers engagement, the Iranians are more than willing to talk while they build. In September Obama gave the Iranians until the end of December – OR ELSE! Or else there will be non-stop condemnations, and the UN may also offer sternly worded press releases. This has been going on for years, but apparently no one thought to brief our Commander and Chief. The time to fix the problem has passed, now we are just watching a slow-motion train crash.

The Israelis will make an attempt to fix the problem, probably in the next few months, and the mid-east will be at war once again. At that point the question will be whose side we are on – the Iranians or the Israelis. The administrations efforts to date have certainly left some large room for doubt on that issue.

Tick tock, tick tock.

Author: Mark

Cracks in the Dam Global Warming Theory

Does anybody remember the movie “Force 10 From Navarone”? World Word II movie, Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw. At the end of the movie the good guys set an explosion in a dam, with the idea that when the dam explodes, the flooding water will take out a strategic downstream bridge. The explosion goes off, but the dam appears to be intact. Disappointed, the saboteurs are wondering what to do next when suddenly the dam begins to give way. It turns out the small blast was just enough to crack the foundation. It just took time and gravity to do the rest.

ClimateGate is the small explosive. The cracks in the dam have begun, and although the global warming mania has not collapsed overnight, it will. Time and gravity will do the job.

But in the meantime, we have our own Ed Markey, doubling down, not really concerned in the least that the core temp data has been dumped, not aware that he has been duped. From CBS News:
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Markey, the head of a House global warming committee, said during a hearing that his Republican colleagues "sit over here using a couple of e-mails to (tell us) how to deal with a catastrophic threat to our planet." And: "There is no alternative theory that the minority is proposing, other than that we know has been funded by the oil, by the coal industries that want to continue business as usual."
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Actually, there are some alternative theories: the sun is causing warming (why is that such a leap for the Democrats?), or the planet is not warming at all. Before massive energy taxes are implemented, the warming has to be proven – it’s not up to the ‘skeptics’ to prove the earth is not adhering to natural temperature variations.

The best commentary I have heard of the past few days comes from Daniel Henninger. He makes the observation that it is science that is under attack with the Global Warming group-think analysis. And I think that is why this issue has resonated along political lines – the Republicans reason with logic, we want to see the raw data. The Democrats reason with consensus – if enough people believe it is so, well then the issue must be ‘settled’. Better to just go along with the crowd than to create conflict with opposing ideas.

And that core difference carries to many other issues: healthcare ‘reform’ looks like a disaster when looked at logically. But the Democrats look at is and say ‘everyone thinks it’s a good idea, it must be a good idea’. The problem for Democrats is that a majority now think it is a very BAD idea, and I believe will make that point clear in the 2010 elections.

The war in Afghanistan is another good example. Senator Obama railed against the Bush plan to send more troops to Iraq. But when he actually has to make a policy decision based on logic, he decides to implement his own surge. It’s a move in the right direction, but it certainly makes his comments on the Iraq surge look naïve (when he was touting the Democrats consensus analysis). Many of his party peers are still searching for a clue (Frank, Markey, and Kerry to name a few).

If ClimateGate does nothing else, at least it has focused the debate on what analysis is sufficient to make sweeping policy changes. That can only help the Republicans, on a whole range of issues. The cracks in the dam are there, just wait for it.

Author: Mark

Natick Food Pantry Moves

This morning the Natick Food Pantry moved to its new location on Cottage Street. To move the food, the Natick Service Council organized a food ‘chain’. About 400+ people formed a human chain from the old location at St. Paul’s Episcopal church to the new location. It’s about half a mile, and the chain was solid. Here’s a picture of the chain as it went across the common:




A great day for the event, and 900 grocery bags of food were moved in about an hour. Lots of kids, people of all ages helping out. No political insight here what-so-ever, just thought it was a nice community effort worth mentioning. A few more pictures here.

Author: Mark

Global warming theory melts

For quite some time we at the NRTC have been sounding the alarm over global warming. Not that the planet is heating up due to human contributions to CO2, but that the entire global warming phenomenon is one of the biggest frauds perpetrated in the history of the planet.

From its roots in England in the early 70s as a platform for Margaret Thatcher to gain politically, it has snowballed into a giant, global scam. Global warming ‘scientists’ have made fortunes in corralling government grants, and Al Gore, the PT Barnum of the circus, has pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars on the enterprise. And last week we learned that the leading climate ‘scientists’ have been making up data, colluding to block differing view points, and hiding data.

In what is now being called “ClimateGate”, it appears the entire foundation of the fraud has been exposed. I would expect many of these ‘scientists’ to lose their jobs. And if the NY Times has any shred of journalistic integrity left, it will fire Andrew Revkin, a shill for the fraudsters.

With so many people involved with the sale of invisible clothes to the emperor, the demise of the man-made global warming frenzy will not happen over night. But I believe the tide has now turned, and true science can now make its way into the public consciousness without the fraudsters blocking the information. Slowly the advocates of the fraud will be turned out of their institutions, slowly the global warming snowball will melt. To whomever leaked those emails to the public, the world owes a great deal of thanks.

Author: Mark

Unemployment certainly got stimulated

The administration talks of “Jobs created and saved” with the stimulus plan – and yet the unemployment rate continues to skyrocket. What went wrong? Is there anything we can learn from a $787 billion mistake?

Alan Reynolds, writing in the New York Post, makes one of the best observations on the unemployment rate that I have come across. His contention is that the stimulus package actually INCREASED the unemployment rate substantially. By extending unemployment benefits, at no cost to the states, there is no incentive to go back to work. Subsidize unemployment, and you get more of it. That explains a lot.

Every time a liberal uses the levers of government to ‘do good’ by interfering with the market economy, the law of unintended consequences ALWAYS comes around to bite them in the butt. No grounding in finance or history, no grounding in reality.

Alan asks:

Why did the unemployment rate rise so rapidly -- from 7.2 per cent in January to 10.2 percent in October? It was clearly the administration's "stimulus" bill -- which in February provided $40 billion to greatly extend jobless benefits at no cost to the states.

When the government pays people 50 to 60 percent of their previous wage to stay home for a year or more, many of them do just that.

And the stimulus bribed states to extend benefits -- which have now been stretched to an unprecedented 79 weeks in 28 states and to 46 to 72 weeks in the rest. Before mid-2008, by contrast, only a few states paid jobless benefits for even a month beyond the standard 26 weeks.

When you subsidize something, you get more of it. Extending unemployment benefits from 26 to 79 weeks was guaranteed to leave many more people unemployed for many more months.
And longer unemployment translates to higher unemployment rates -- because the relatively small numbers of newly unemployed are added to stubbornly large numbers of those who lost their jobs more than six months ago.

Read the whole thing here.

At least the American public is beginning to catch on that the emperor has no clothes:



Author: Mark

Mr. Brown is Back in Town

Yesterday Massachusetts’ next State Senator Scott Brown dropped by Natick for a visit. On a rainy Saturday evening the turn-out was impressive. Scott talked about the lunacy that has overwhelmed Washington policy makers, as the national debt is hiked through the roof, and unemployment skyrockets. While the President and Scott’s Democratic challengers are pushing full-tilt on nationalizing large parts of the economy (healthcare), and imposing significant new taxes, the economy remains in ruins, and will only get worse if the current direction continues. Scott’s position is that Nationalizing healthcare should not be the top priority right now – the economy should be the top priority, and he is absolutely correct.

Below are some pics from the event. The special election is January 19th – if Massachusetts elects a Republican Senator, the effect will jolt the Democrats nation-wide, and put the brakes on the lunacy. So get involved! This is a rare opportunity for the efforts of a few to have a massive effect on national policy. Join the fight! Here is the Scott Brown for US Senate web site.







Author: Mark

Barney Frank, Dopey in Maine

I simply can not let this pass without comment. Yesterday the news broke that Barney Frank, US Representative of Massachusetts Fourth Congressional District, was a witness to his boyfriend being arrested for possession of Marijuana plants a couple of years back. The arrest was at the boyfriends house in Maine, and Barney was there at the time. If you click on the link above, watch the FOX News video, and hear Barney’s response. It’s just too funny as he claims he does not know what a pot plant looks like. And of course, the jokes are running rampant today: “Hey Barney, if you want to know what dope looks like, look in the mirror!”.

We have a longstanding issue with Congressman Frank, and his pivotal role in the collapse of the US economy through his backing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. More on that can be found here.

So the question is, how do we get rid of this embarrassment to Massachusetts?

Here is a map of the congressional districts of Massachusetts. Barney’s district, the 4th district, consists of the following towns:

Newtown, Wellesley, Millis, Dover, Foxboro, Mansfield, Sharron, Taunton, Lakeville, Rochester, Wareham, Middleboro, Halifax, Westport, New Bedford, Dartmouth, Freetown, Berkley, and Dighton.

It is these towns that have the power to dump this bozo. Who is the Republican challenger for US Rep against Barney for 2010? I am not saying there isn’t one, I just don’t know who it is. If anybody reading this knows the answer, post it as a reply or send me an email.

Also, I am looking for the Republican Town Committee Chairmen in all of those towns, so I can get a real-time status update as to how the challenge is progressing. If anyone knows those names, let me know. I know Foxboro has a strong town committee, with Angela Davis as the Chair.

As I get the info, I will post it over in the ‘Elections’ section of www.natickrepublicans.org

-Author Mark

To get out of the hole, first stop digging

Today I want to point readers to this editorial in Investor’s Business Daily. It is a great synopsis of the current state of the US economy. Anybody who has had even a basic college course in “Macro Economy 101” knows that tax hikes hurt economic growth, tax cuts boost growth. It’s been proven time and time again. And yet this administration, with unemployment over 10%, continues to propose massive health-care tax hikes. Gold prices are shooting through the roof, and the dollar is collapsing, because federal deficits are soaring. A falling dollar brings on higher oil prices, which slows the economy further. The stimulus was a total failure, which anybody with a iota of finance understanding predicted.

Let’s take a look at a few charts. The first one compares the unemployment rate with the projections provided by the administration as it was lobbying for the 'stimulus' package:

This second graph is simply a graph of the unemployment rate over the last several years. The problem does not seem to be under control.

And the third graph is gold prices. Gold is viewed as a hedge on inflation and depreciating dollars.

The market certainly seems to be betting on things getting worse.

One of my favorite sayings is that elections have consequences. Too many people did not do their homework before going into the voting booth last year, and we are all paying for it now. It’s going to be a long 12 months to the 2010 election.

Author: Mark

Kerry Clueless

On Wednesday the Senate voted down an attempt to tack a quarter of a trillion dollars onto the federal deficit. 13 Democrats voted with all Republicans against the proposal. Both MA Senators, Kerry and Kirk, both Democrats, voted FOR additional deficit spending. I think it should be mandatory for all incoming Senators to take at least one college level course on economics. If a Democrat, at least two courses.


“Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.”
- Jay Leno

"John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500 billion deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card."
- Craig Kilborn

Author: Mark

New Natick High School

One of the biggest projects facing the town of Natick over the next several years is the construction of a new high school. The current high school was constructed in 1953, with renovations in 1964 and 1995. It has served Natick well, but the physical plant is deteriorating, and a new school needs to be built. Below are some pictures of the current high school.

Recently a location was selected, as well as an architect and a blueprint for the new school. The new building will be constructed on the tennis courts/baseball fields/soccer fields right next to the existing school.

During construction, one wing of the old school (the “B” wing) will need to be torn down. This wing, the ‘leftmost’ wing of the school as you face it, is closest to the construction site of the new building. In the picture below, we are looking at the left side of the high school, with the front to the right of the picture, and the back to the left (the chimney can be seen in the picture above for further orientation). In the foreground we can see the soccer fields where the new building is intended to be built, and we can see the “B” wing. The brick structure to the right of the B wing is a gym, which will also have to be torn down during construction.

Here’s another picture of the current high-school complex with a little height. Again, the left side of the complex below is what we are looking at in the picture above.

Here is one more picture of the construction site. If you went over to the Gym in the above picture, and turned around, this is what you would see:

How much will the new building cost? Estimates vary, but somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 million to $90 million seems to be the first take. The town has chosen to build a ‘model’ school to take advantage of significant state subsidies for the project. The model school chosen is the Whitman-Hanson model.

For the Natick portion of the cost, an over-ride will be necessary. That over-ride vote will take place in the town election this spring. If the over-ride passes, the new school could be completed in approximately 3 years. If the over-ride fails, Natick will go to the back of the line on the state’s priority list of schools. Natick would then have the choice of either funding the entire amount of the new school itself, or putting off the construction for many years until the town works its way back up the state funding priority list.

The over-ride vote is certain to be contentious, as all over-ride votes are, but in this case, I think it is pretty clear Natick needs to build a new high-school. There really isn’t a Republican/Democrat partisan angle that I can see – there are likely to be people on both sides of the issue from both camps. But as the largest spending issue facing Natick, I thought it was worth a mention.

Author: Mark

Barney Frank Should Resign

A point we have been emphasizing for some time is that the implosion of the US capital markets was caused by federal regulations interfering with the market. Thomas Sowell writing today nails if far more succinctly than me:

“Our current economic meltdown results from the federal government, under both Democrats and Republicans, declaring home ownership to be a "good thing" and treating the percentage of families who own their own home as if it was some sort of magic number that had to be kept growing-- without regard to the repercussions on other things. We are now living with those repercussions, which include the worst unemployment in decades. That is the price we are paying for increasing home ownership from 64 percent to 69 percent.”

“Federal regulatory agencies leaned on banks to lend to people they were not lending to before-- or else. The "or else" included not having their business decisions approved by the regulators, which could cost them more money than making risky loans.

Mortgage lending standards were lowered, in order to raise the magic number of home ownership. But, with lower lending standards, there were-- surprise!-- more mortgage payment delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures. This was a problem not only for banks and other lenders but also for those in the business of buying mortgages from the original lenders. These included semi-government enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Wall Street firms that bought mortgages, bundled them together and issued securities based on the anticipated income from those mortgages.

In other words, all these economic transactions were "interconnected," as the Russian economists would say. And when the people who owed money on their mortgages stopped paying, the whole house of cards began to fall.”

To sum up: the Federal government played Russian roulette with the US economy in an effort to get people who could not afford to own homes to own homes, and the economy got shot in the head. There were a whole host of Federal busy-bodies responsible for the fiasco, but our own Barney Frank was clearly the most prominent. He should resign out of simple embarrassment, but the sad fact is he does not even realize he caused the problem. Perhaps voters can explain it to him in the 2010 election.

Read Mr. Sowell’s entire article here.

For more on the topic, read Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco and this.

Author: Mark

MA: Canary in the Coal Mine

Wendy Button, a Democrat speech writer, writing in Politics Daily, talks about her experience with Massachusetts healthcare:

“Since I care more about my country than my personal pride, here's how I lost my insurance: I moved. That's right, I moved from Washington, D.C., back to Massachusetts, a state with universal health care.

In D.C., I had a policy with a national company, an HMO, and surprisingly I was very happy with it. I had a fantastic primary care doctor at Georgetown University Hospital. As a self-employed writer, my premium was $225 a month, plus $10 for a dental discount.

In Massachusetts, the cost for a similar plan is around $550, give or take a few dollars. My risk factors haven't changed. I didn't stop writing and become a stunt double. I don't smoke. I drink a little and every once in a while a little more than I should. I have a Newfoundland dog. I am only 41. There has been no change in the way I live my life except my zip code -- to a state with universal health care.”

Ms Button raises an interesting point: why are policy makers in Washington ignoring the debacle that is Massachusetts ‘universal’ healthcare? For that matter, why are they ignoring the crisis that is Medicaid and Medicare? What about Canada? Why are politicians, such as Massachusetts own Ed Markey, Barney Frank, and John Kerry ignoring the many precedents for disaster that have been set over the years? Are they ignorant of history? Do they just not care? As my dad always told me, don’t assign to malice what can be explained by ignorance. So I’m going to go with ignorance of history rather than malice towards their constituents for why they are working to demolish the US healthcare system. Should these people really continue to represent Massachusetts voters?

One other point that struck me in reading Ms Button’s story – she says she is not insured. But she HAS to be insured, it’s mandatory in this state. She claims she can not afford coverage, but IT DOESN’T MATTER. She MUST have insurance, whether she can afford it or not. She will be paying fines if the government catches on to her. Mandatory healthcare coverage is a tax increase – a big one – a point Ms Button could have made.

It’s an excellent ‘light bulb moment’ story for a liberal speech writer. Read the whole thing here.

Author: Mark

America Needs a Climate Change Revolt

The Obama administration is taking the country down a lot of wrong roads all at once, from healthcare to Iran, so it is important for Conservatives to keep fighting on all fronts. One front that is very active is the government’s intrusion into the energy sector with pending cap-and-trade legislation. This issue will come to a head in December when world leaders meet in Copenhagen to work on a “global warming” agreement. As we've blogged about previously, the fact that the world has been getting colder since 1998 is not slowing Al Gore down in the slightest. Here in the northeast in fact, we’d better keep the shovels handy.


From Lynn Woolley, writing at HumanEvents.com:

“Let me state this as plainly as possible: Global warming is a hoax designed to provide a crisis that will lead to a spreading-of-the-wealth among nations. Here at home, it will greatly increase the power of the government and Central Planning. If the government wants your thermostat set at 72 degrees, then that it what it shall be. If the government says get rid of your SUV -- you’ll have to find a used Yugo somewhere. It will be government’s choice and not yours.”

Great article. Read the whole thing here.

Author: Mark

Elections Have Consequences

Republicans have always been loud in our support for Israel, a small outpost of Democracy surrounded by dictators intent on its total destruction. That is in contrast to President Obama, who appears intent on isolating Israel and enabling its enemies. In his speech to the UN yesterday, he “put Israel on the chopping block”, according to former UN Ambassador John Bolton. The inclination for Republicans is to stand with our trusted ally and fight with every means possible for their right to exist, letting them know that the current Administration does not speak for the majority of Americans. This is what we will do for Poland, this is what we will do for Honduras – the US has momentarily lost its moral bearings, but we will fix it. Just hold on.

The question is, though, does Israel want our support? The US Jewish electorate voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Barak Obama in the previous election: 78% Obama/22% McCain. Obama’s anti-Israel inclinations were well known. Should Republicans argue against the current US policy towards Israel if that policy is what American Jewish voters want? If US Jewish voters put Israel on a path to destruction, if Iran gets nuclear weapons, should Republicans care? Well, of course we should care. And of course we will continuously and LOUDLY argue on behalf of our ally. But it would be a lot easier to make our case for, and offer protection to, Israel if that 78% of American Jewish voters joined us.

Author: Mark

MA Delegation Supports ACORN

The House vote on Sept 17 to deny further federal funding to ACORN was pretty overwhelming, as one would hope after videos that showed ACORN staff, in multiple ACORN offices, counseling a couple claiming to be a prostitute and her pimp how to get a mortgage, buy a house as a brothel, and then launder their earnings (and those of a dozen or so underage Salvadorean girls they intended to import to work in the brothel). The vote was 345-75 to deny funding, with two 'present' and 11 not voting.

WHO were those 75 who thought that ACORN should still get federal (i.e., taxpayer) funds?

Well, are the names familiar? They are Massachusetts Congressmen (8 of 10): all pathetic amoral excuses of gutlessness. The only Massachusetts Congressman to vote morally was John Tierney. Even Barney Frank had the courage (?) to be 'not voting': his nose, at least, appears to retain a few receptor cells to alert him to the stench of ACORN.

By the way, Moran of Virginia, with his Natick origins, and morally challenged as his career has been, also voted like a typical Massachusetts rep: let's hope it's not something in the water. (Actually, it probably isn't the water: Markey hasn't spent enough time in Massachusetts in the last 30 years to drink any water, except perhaps the occasional bottle of Perrier at Alan Solomont's Weston estate during fund raising events.)

Ed Markey's offices (contact ALL of them, if you are angered by his vote)
5 High Street, Suite 101
Medford, MA 02155
781-396-2900

188 Concord Street, Suite 102
Framingham, MA 01702
508-875-2900

2108 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
202-225-2836

Author: Mike

Sorry Poland! Good Luck!

It’s a busy world out there for our Commander-in-Chief: steamroll healthcare, help Hugo Chavez crush Honduran democracy, levy energy surtaxes on everybody, negotiate with the Iranians, nationalize the financial and auto industries. But fortunately our President found time to squeeze one more achievement into his portfolio: sell out the Poles and the Czechs. No nuclear shield for eastern Europe, as that would upset the Russians. This will go right up there in the annals of diplomacy with Neville Chamberlain's brilliant political moves to prevent Germany from invading Cheklosovkia, otherwise knows as the Munich Agreement. The more times change, the more they stay the same. Poland and the Czechs again, 70 years later.

It is very sad to see the US on the retreat throughout the world. Hopefully Poland and the Czechs can hang on three more years until a change of administrations re-establishes the US standing as a trusted ally. If I were Russia, or Iran, I would certainly make sure the nuclear threats achieved territorial gains before that window closes. Israel will likely make a move to stop Iran sometime in that window, but I fear they will fight alone.





Author: Mark

Tally ho! The game is a-foot!

The starter gun has gone off, and the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat is under way! The special election to fill the seat will be held January 19^th. Governor Patrick may or may not get the Massachusetts State Legislature to change the rules (again) and let him appoint an interim replacement until that election. For those of us who do not want the health care industry to run like the post office, it would be better to leave the seat vacant for a few months.

So lets take a look at how the field is shaping up:

Definitely running for the Democrats:

Attorney General Martha Coakley

Maybe running for the Democrats:

Congressman Michael Capuano, Congressman Stephen Lynch

Not running for the Democrats:

Joe Kennedy (being best buds with Hugo Chavez works against him), Congressman Ed Markey

Definitely running for the Republicans:

State Senator Scott Brown

Maybe running for the Republicans:

Curt Shilling, Christy Mihos

Not running for the Republicans:

Mitt Romney, Andy Card, Kerry Healey

On the Democrat side, the biggest disappointment is clearly the decision by Ed Markey not to run. We in the seventh Congressional district appear to be stuck with him until the November 2010 elections, when his votes on the cap-and-trade energy surtax, the stimulus pork-a-thon bill, and the nationalization of healthcare should be enough to move him to early retirement (IF the Republicans recruit a viable candidate to challenge).

On the Republican side, Curt Shilling is the wild card. He has the money and name recognition to become an instant contender. Yet State Representative Scott Brown has the experience as a legislator as well as the grass-roots political organization to make a strong run at the seat.

Here’s my prediction: Stephen Lynch for the Democrats against Scott Brown for the Republicans. Lynch will take greater Boston out to 128, Brown will take everything west of 495, and both will fight it out in the trenches of the suburbs between 128 and 495. That battle works to Brown’s advantage, in my opinion. Scott Brown will get my vote, and my support.

One further consideration: when the 2010 census results are in, it is likely that Massachusetts will lose yet another congressional district, as the population shifts to other parts of the country. All 10 of Massachusetts congressional districts are represented by Democrats (which might not be unrelated to the fact that people keep leaving Massachusetts). So those 10 Democrats might be thinking about the possibility that their district might be re-districted out of existence, which might in turn be a factor in who runs for the Senate seat.

Author: Mark

ACORN exposed, again

A young women posing as a prostitute/sex trafficker, and an independent videographer posing as her law student boyfriend, sought ACORN's advice in how to go into business: buy a house, set up a brothel, and bring in 13 or so 11-14 year old girls to work for them. They asked, and receive advice from not one, but TWO ACORN offices: both Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

People complained to the Maryland State's Attorney for Baltimore City about the Baltimore ACORN behavior, so the state office has apparently threatened to take the couple (not ACORN) to court for breaking state law. (Huh?)

But then this is the same state that indicted Linda Tripp for taping Monica Lewinsky's phone calls.

But when tax cheats are put in charge of numerous Federal offices, including the Treasury, and at least one 'czar' wanted "Bush/Cheney ties to the 9/11 attacks" investigated, what should we expect?

Link.

Author: Mike

Whole Foods Founder on Health Care Reform

A lot of attacks have been aimed at John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods, for his opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Health Care Reform. But few, if any, of the attacks dispute any of his points.

Why? Because they are clear, logical, and would be effective. But they gore too many 'progressive' oxen: personal responsibility, discretion, limits on lawyers, etc.

Check out his points here, and make up your own mind.

Author: Mike