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So, I've let this whole Virginia Tech thing sink in a little bit and being a guy whose worked at a College for six plus years now, I feel like I'm in a little bit of a unique position here. I apologize in advance for the lack of proper grammar, and realize this is more of a rant than anything else, but in getting it out a little bit, I find some peace, as this one hits very close to home for me.I

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Are with the students, family, faculty and other members of the Virginia Tech Community. As someone who has worked on a college campus for a good long while now, my heartfelt prayers and sympathy go out to you.To read more about this story, click here

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“It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted on the airwaves…”---Al Sharpton These words should frighten us all. What happened to Imus is not censorship, only another Sharpton/Jackson racial shakedown of another American company. But Reverend Al’s words are yet another societal sign of something very bad for

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Please, Don Imus, stop the groveling. You said a stupid thing, you apologized. Move on. Tell Al Sharpton you'll listen to him sermonize about bigotry when he apologizes for the Tawana Brawley incident. That was more racist than anything you said, and here he is giving us a lecture on bigotry? Please, give me a break. He and Jesse Jackson, who is also pretending to be above it all and shocked,

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Again, sorry folks for being so slow on the posting lately. Life is actually busy again.Anyways, no excuses the next couple of weeks. Here are some events. SHOW THE F_CK UP and put your money where your mouth is!1. Reminder: The Springfield Republican City Committee will meet Tuesday,April 10, 7:00 p.m. at the Parkview Specialty Hospital on State Street withlocal blogger/Friend of the Fed/

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Nancy Pelosi is to world diplomacy what Michael Jordan was to baseball: completely forgettable and unnecessary. But unlike Michael’s slightly amusing foray into the Babe’s world, there’s nothing funny about Pelosi in Damascus. The terrorists and their supporters, who are always looking for weak links and signs that the US does not have the will or backbone to win the war we’re fighting with them,

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I'm so sick and tired of people making millions off tax payer dollars. If you thought Billy Bulger wasn't bad enough, check this out from Lowell. Marty Meehan gets a limo driver.What's not covered for 'public officials' these days in this state? Do they get cooks? Do they get state-paid maids? You've got to wonder if we'll ever get to a point where enough is enough in this state. But herein lies

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Voters in Massachusetts should be in an absolute uproar over this.The US attorney's office let the clock run out this week on a federal grand jury in Boston investigating whether William Bulger had committed perjury or obstruction of justice, concluding that there wasn't enough evidence to seek indictments and take a case to trial, the sources said."Bill Bulger has been a political football for

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The epitome of fluff piece. Is this stuff even serious?Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as more frustrating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers say. During his 1992 campaign, Mr. Clinton was attacked for avoiding the Vietnam draft and organizing antiwar marches in the 1960s. After

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Mitt Romney's fund raising totals almost equaled Hillary Clinton's. That's quite a feat considering her name recognition and the fact that she's got herself and a former US President to help raise money for her. Mitt's total ended up at around $25 million according to Mass live.BOSTON (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney reported raising $23 million for his presidential campaign during the first three

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Again, I don't much like to criticize people who get caught up in circumstances that I, myself, have never been in, but it seems to me that unless there's some sort of coercion going on that's unlike any we've seen in modern history, that the British sailors and marines who were captured by Iran recently were obliging their captors quite nicely and, dare I say, a little too easily? That's just

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Is it me or is the nanny-state legislation spitting out of Beacon Hill at a ridiculous rate?Here's the latest bill, to 'protect' teenagers from tanning booths:BOSTON - Tanning booths are the latest area where teenagers need to be protected from themselves, according to lawmakers and health officials pushing legislation they say will reduce the number of new skin cancer cases. New harsher

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For every Chief Scott in the world, there's guys like this idiot, who sent this absolutely insane letter into the Springfield Republican, in response to the Aaron Brevoort-police shoot out a few days ago in Springfield:The manner in which the Springfield police, the four state police officersand the U.S. marshal killed Aaron J. Brevoort last week appalls me.Perhaps even more appalling is the fact

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I pick up the paper this morning and read that the Mother of All Paper Tigers, the United Nations, has issued a resolution that “bans all Iranian arms exports and freezes some of the financial assets of 28 Iranian individuals and entities linked to Iran's military and nuclear agencies.”Oooh. The mullahs in Tehran must be quaking in their decidedly anti-Western garb.This reminds me a lot of the

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I have got to stop doing this.My Saturday mornings usually begin calm and peaceful. I savor my first cup of French roast coffee, delighted by the fact that I don't have to rush off to work. Ahhhh.Then, it happens.Like a heroin addict reaching for the needle that I know will harm me, I pick up the Washington Post and steel myself for the latest steaming pile of dung disguised as balanced reporting

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Nancy Pelosi really does think she's President."WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned as a sponsor of terrorism, despitebeing asked by the administration not to go."In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort of high- profilevisitors to Syria," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Friday.Pelosi arrived

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This certainly won't be the last hike. Here piggy, piggy!The Massachusetts Board of Retirement agreed yesterday to hike pensions ofabout eight of the 17 active and retired college presidents who asked for theincreases to mirror a boost that former University of Massachusetts presidentWilliam Bulger won in court.In November, the Supreme Judicial Courtboosted Bulger's annual pension by $17,000, to

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Why is health care so expensive? Paradoxically, it’s because it’s so cheap! We are grossly over-insured when it comes to health care. This is largely due our managing to shift the cost of our health insurance to others (employers and the government). We perceive a “free lunch”; so why not make it steak and lobster? But there is no “free lunch”, there never is.Can you imagine the cost of auto

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Frankie Keough was sentenced to three years yesterday. That's right, three year for swindling an entire agency for nearly a decade.As one of the best-known public figure caught in a federal corruption dragnet in Springfield, Keough pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy, extortion, mail fraud, witness tampering and perjury charges linked to his tenure at Friends of the Homeless Inc., which runs

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Tony Blankley, on the inevitability of President Hillary Rodham Clinton: With every passing week it becomes more likely that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party nominee for president. This thought, alone, should provide the strongest possible motivation to the Bush Administration and the Washington Republicans to get their acts together so that the eventual Republican nominee for

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The Deval Patrick administration LITERALLY can't get through a day without something ridiculous happening. This was in today's Globe.Two commissioners on the state's quasi judicial labor relations board are accusing Governor Deval Patrick's chief labor aide of interfering with the agency on cases involving two unions that endorsed Patrick and donated heavily to his gubernatorial campaign.The two

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One must wonder if the following montage of headlines is worth it to Barack Obama to become Hillary Clinton's vice president:Obama's kin owned slaves - A genealogical report finds two slave owners among the candidate's U.S. ancestors (on his white mother's side of the family, natch) Is Obama the new 'black'? - Barack Obama is a rising star. He's a powerful speaker and a gifted writer. He is the

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CBS's Katie Couric has come under scrutiny after her interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards. She apparently wasn’t nice enough. I was impressed Couric actually asked some actual questions. Couric challenged their decision by asking pointed, difficult questions. J. Edwards feigned shock when Couric suggested he was putting work before family. Work is what he did as lawyer. Being President

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Romney seems to be doing quite an impressive job of tapping into the rather sizable College Republican population in the country by bringing them onto the campaign as fundraisers and allowing them to keep up to and in some cases more, than 8% commission on the total money they raise. Pretty innovative stuff.BOSTON (AP) — A millionaire thanks to his work as a venture capitalist, Mitt Romney is

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In an effort to turn up the heat on state legislators who aren't supporting taxes on new businesses, Deval Patrick's going to be touring the state having more of those silly town meeting moonbat pow-wows to push his new policy. In fact, he's planning on 'suggesting' names of some legislators who need to be 'lobbied' according to Mass Live. That'll go over like a fart in church. "At the outset, we

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Deval Patrick's new web site has garnered a little criticism over the past 48 hours or so, but for anyone curious as to how this web site was any different from his campaign web site.. well, uh....Yes, everyone, 9-11 never happened, at least according to the 'community activists' on Deval Patrick's web site. Don't believe me, follow this link.Secretary of State Bill Galvin has even chimed in with

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Rarely does a day go by when we aren’t assaulted by some story of censorship on a college or university campus or even in general by the left. Just last week the Western Massachusetts Republicans had their Calvin Coolidge Banquet interrupted by a bomb threat.Where do we draw the line? For those of us that think free speech is an okay thing, even when it means I have to listen to someone whose

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Looks like ABC-5 in Boston has picked up on the sham of Deval Patrick's "Civic Engagement" web site as well.Team 5 Investigates Janet Wu discovered that when people register to participate, it discloses their home address as listed in the Massachusetts voter database. Wu found that anyone could enter a name and a town and find the street address for any registered voter. For some searches,

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Great lecture on Modern Liberal thinking. The best part is his commentary on Flushing Korans Down the Toilet. How does that work? Enjoy.

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A new study has proclaimed today's college students "more narcissistic than ever."The study was done by five shrinks, who examined responses from over 16,000 respondents between 1982 and 2006 on a written personality test called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. If you Google it, you’ll see that the NPI was published in 1979 and has hundreds of paired statements, one reflecting narcissistic

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They win an election, promising to bring honor back to Washington. Now, they break a promise not to hold votes "open" past the alloted time. Some background: On their first day in the majority in January, Democrats amended the House rules to mandate that a vote "shall not be held open for the sole purpose of reversing the outcome of such vote." Under earlier GOP rule, Democrats routinely

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For me, reading the newspaper has become like conducting surgery, especially in the past few years. Even on the Internet, some stories are becoming so blatantly opinionated that you need to read the same story from four or five different sources just to get an even-Steven look at whatever it is they're trying to write about. Sometimes, the stupidity of the author is only out done by the

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When I Use a Word, It Means Precisely What I Want It To Mean. Nothing More. Nothing Less."--Humpty DumptyIf you search for the name 'Jessica Lynch', you're going to find the words hero or heroine plastered all through the top 10 results. you will find the word heroine or hero prominent in the description of the top ten results. I support the troops, the war in Iraq and the broader conflict in the

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Looks like Deval tried the whole governing thing and figured out pretty quickly he sort of sucked at it. So...*sigh* Back to the campaign!If it ever really ended.....On Saturday, Patrick began a series of eight "town meeting" style forums across the state designed to help him rally loyal backers to push back against the established politicians and lobbyists he says are trying to undermine his

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Thank god this trial is done, at least for the time being. Judge Ponser decided to suspend the trial, at least until the election was over and the legislative process had taken it's course. What a novel concept: Let elected officials decide this issue rather than unelected judges! Ponser and I probably see eye to eye like a pair of feet, but my hats off to him, this is a great decision. Since

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How or why can anyone justify adding to fmr. Senate President Billy Bulger's pension? Treasurer Tim Cahill announced yesterday that retired college Presidents would be receiving substantial increases in their pensions.... even thought they don't need it. According to Cahill, the five-member state Board of Retirement will meet Thursday to take up requests from 16 retired and active college

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Just when you thought we had enough problems in the world, we find this out.In addition to the impact of global cooling, "By paying close attention to the geographic origin of each of the fossilized skulls," said Gallup, "it became clear that seasonal variation in climate may also have been an important selective force behind the evolution of human cranial capacity.I think Universities are making

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Take a look at this piece from the Lowell Sun. Treasonous!?!? What has the editorial board been smoking at the Lowell Sun lately? And I mean that in the nicest way possible. The same Editorial board that staunchly defended outgoing congressman Marty Meehan (D-Massachusetts) unloaded on the Democrats' War appropriations bill, which by the way, is stuffed with pork.Take a read, you may not believe

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Some might not exactly like the fact that I'm going after this, but I think it warrants a conversation at the very least.John Edwards' decision to continue running for President, despite his wife's being re-diagnosed with cancer, disturbs me.I cannot support any person that makes a public exhibition out of a loved one's illnesses for political gain. Yesterday's staged event was meant to do that.

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Last night at the Calvin Coolidge banquet I had the chance to hear Holyoke Police Chief Anthony Scott speak after receiving the public service award for being the best Republican public official and all around stud. I was almost ashamed to have never heard the man speak in the past and feel like we could all learn something from him.During his award 'acceptance' speech, he said 'You think It's

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We must be doing something right.Tonight's Western Mass Republican Dinner was briefly interrupted by a phoned-in bomb threat. When we were told about it, everyone shrugged it off and everyone stayed in the room for the end of the program. Only in Western Massachusetts. Nothing screams tolerance like bomb threats.I guess what makes me laugh about the whole thing is how it illustrates the

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This months edition of things that make me wonder...How does one reconcile that a twelve year old owns her body to the extent that she can obtain an abortion without her parent’s knowledge, but I have no say about the food I eat (no trans-fats) or whether I wear a seatbelt or not?Why is everyone worried about Muslims being offended for receiving extra scrutiny at airports? Presumably they want

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I am convinced that entropy is the most powerful force in the universe. Nothing works anymore. It’s like the system was designed by idiots, and then endlessly tweaked by even greater idiots to maximize the friction and waste within the system. Let me give you a few examples: Our schools don’t teach anymore. At the K-12 level, the system amounts to warehousing kids and indoctrinating them. For

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Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma was the preceding chair of the Environment and Public Works committee, until the republicans lost and liberal Barbara Boxer took the chair. Senator Inhofe asked Gore today to take the same pledge that he pushes on every other American. In effect. "I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household by March 21, 2008.”He

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State Rep. Byron Rushing is insane. I don't think anyone, even some Democrats would debate that. For years now, Rushing has decided to file a piece of legislation that pretty much says we should just forget all that immigration law stuff and 'welcome' anyone into the state who wants to come here.Well, it's back. And thankfully, it's got about as much of a chance of passing through the legislature

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Trav's done in the Senate. Now he's going to go into the influence peddling business, oddly enough with Atty. Tom Kiley, who was counsel for another Senate President you may have heard of, named Billy Bulger. But nope, it doesn't stink. Not even the fact that he's auctioning his services off on ebay.Our new Senate President, Therese Murray, has an impressive past, even by Beacon Hill Standards.

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Is there really anything to this whole firing 'scandal' other than Democrats looking to get some licks in?Democrats' response to his proposal was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides. "Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That's the formula for true accountability," said Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate

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The Springfield Republican City Committee Tuesday, April 10, 20077:00 p.m. at the Parkview Specialty Hospital on State StreetGuest Speaker will be fellow Blog Maniac Tommy Devine speaking on the importance of a strong GOP city committeeIf you want some more info, speak at Mary via e-mail atmjc@attglobal.net.The Western Massachusetts Republicans Present: The Calvin Coolidge BanquetThursday, March

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I got a good chuckle out of this story from the Boston Herald. Cubans in Miami are steaming mad at former Gov. Mitt Romney for shooting his mouth off in stumbling Spanish, mispronouncing names and erroneously associating a notorious Fidel Castro-spewed Communist catch phrase with freedom fighters. liberty-seeking Cubans by Politicians in South Florida have lashed out at the former

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It's expected that Senate President Robert Travaglini (D-Boston) will resign tomorrow.No, he's not taking the Health Care CEO job-thingy. Nope, he's doing what every good Democrat does; starting his own lobbying firm. Nope, no 'cooling off period' here. He's just going to jump right in, head first and start getting goodies while the goodies getting is good!

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Something to check out. Apparently those who vandalized the office insist that Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) has 'blood on his hands'. Oh, how childish politics are beginning to become.For the Full Story from Mass Live, Click Here.

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Those crazy folks in No-Ho are at it again...In a love story only left wing lunatics could love, city councilors Raymond W. LaBarge and Marianne L. LaBarge are at each other's throats once again. Guess what it's about? Name calling.Remember that thing I wrote about public officials acting like children the other day? The bad blood between the two councilors boiled over recently after Raymond made

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Pundits like to tell us that the defining issue of the 2008 Presidential Election is going to be Iraq. Americans are going to have to make a choice between one party which wants to stop the war and the other that wants to win it.Sen. Hillary Clinton, who originally voted to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, now says she didn't really mean it and promises to put a half to the

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You better look nervous, scumbag! There's a new bitch for sale in the Fed Pen!It makes we swoon with joy to watch this clown finally get his.

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I read this at GOPnews.This weekend brought more polarization of illegal immigrants and the mainstream population. In New Bedford, a pro illegal immigrant rally came close to violence when a disabled navy veteran named Marjorie Blaha demanded to be heard regarding her opinion of illegal immigrants. After being forcibly removed from the rally Marjorie stated "I'm just angry that an American

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Despite repeated attempts, former Vice President and 2000 Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Gore, refuses to respond to calls that he show up and debate many of the claims he makes regarding 'Global Warming'.The guys making the challenge is Lord Monckton of Scotland, whose issuing Royal Proclamations among other kingly-edicts to goad the former Vice President into debate. I hope both wear burger

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When in doubt, whip up your yahoos and get em screaming. Nothing saves an administration quite like that!

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When my Father was younger, he told me, he thought he belonged to the best generation that's ever showed up on planet earth. They were the boomers. They invented the whole idea of the Generation Gap by starting a mass rebellion that, even when they were all teeny-boppers, was starting to re-shape America around whatever happened to catch them as their latest whim. There were tons of products

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Details of Valerie Plame's 'tragic' existence were revealed Friday in the Washington Post. With her CIA cover blown by Bob Novak's July 2003 column, she has lived the past four years in a surreal world, but today she will speak out at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Since her retirement from the CIA, Plame's life has been fraught with hardship:Over the past

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Good Lord, it took me two days to find this. Truly hilarious stuff.Ladies and Gentleman... I present to you, Irony."Interfaith group braves storm in climate change trek"-- Boston Globe 3/16/07

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Rosie is one gassed-out moonbat. If you didn't think she was completely nuts, read this.NEW YORK (AP) -- Rosie O'Donnell says she began being treated for depression after the Columbine school shootings and hangs upside down for up to a half-hour a day to improve her mental state. ..."I couldn't stop crying," she said on an episode taped for ABC's "The View" and due to air Friday. "I stayed in

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This congress is going to investigate every member they possibly can of the Bush Administration until they find something that even semi-sticks. If you want proof, look no further than the recent rock-throwing at Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who's getting raked over the coals for firing 8 US Attorneys for 'political reasons'.Just an interesting read I plucked out of the NY Times Archives:

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Leave it up to Dems----who didn't know what they were doing in the first place---to make the rules even more convoluted and weird. Of course, she made sure their liberal friends at big universities were all taken care of. I only hope that Speaker Pelosi is the first to get snared up in these stupid rules. Lawmakers and lobbyists can still meet in exotic places — they just have to get there

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A new poll in the UK's Sunday Times is saying that Iraqis feel life has improved for their since Saddam Hussein left. You won't ever see this talked about in the US media. God forbid they jeopardize their agenda.

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"They all knew that I worked with the CIA," Plame said. "They might not have known what my status was but that alone — the fact that I worked for the CIA — should have put up a red flag."So what is it? Is she 'classified' or 'covert'? Does it matter to her or not? Just because she worked for the CIA should have sent up red flags? Even if she were a janitor?"Classified" is NOT the same as someone

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So Deval Patrick finally cans friend, donor and campaign chairman!.....and then hired a few more hacks.Now I'm a little befuddled as to where this money is all coming from to hire new staffers? Joe Landolfi is replacing Nancy Fernandez Mills, who's not really being fired, just being placed somewhere else in the administration, likely doing nothing, but retaining her salary. So that's not really a

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This is where the text for Friday's really funny column will go. It will be quite uproarious, and will not be a total and complete piece of crap. It will be as un-disappointing as text on a white background can possibly be. If Hillary Clinton were to read the text that will populate this column, she would laugh so hard that she'd stop talking like a southern twit.But only for a second. Then she'd

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Amy Gorin, former Deval Patrick campaign co-chair and chief of staff to Massachusetts First Lady Diane Patrick, resigned from her post.The resignation comes after controversy regarding Gorin's being placed on the tax payer-funded pay roll at a salary of $72,000 per year.Gorin, Patrick's former campaign chair, also came under fire early last year when a testimonial posted on Deval Patrick's

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So is Global Warming just a bunch of rubbish? Thomas Sowell seems to think so. Below is a documentary that aired in England that is quite interesting. Spread it around. Grab a bag of popcorn though, this one's just a little long!

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Governor Deval Patrick announced yesterday, that he is filing a "cost avoidance" bill with the Legislature according to Boston.com. The "cost avoidance" bill will only cost taxpayers $1.47 BILLION dollars. The money wlll be used to build "emergency" projects. "Emergency" projects like a new psyc hospital, and a few new bridges. Who's avoiding the cost again?

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According to State Representative Ben Swan (D-Springfield), Massachusetts is as racist, if not more racist than Mississippi. Swan said in a sworn statement filed in connection with the case that he once preferred the Deep South to Springfield. "When I first moved to Springfield (in the 1950s) I wanted to go back to Mississippi because of the racist attitudes I encountered," Swan said.

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The Springfield Republican ran a headline today that read "Realities muddle voting rights suit". 'Muddle'?No. More like "kills".US District Judge Michael A. Ponsor sounded like he had enough of listening to the stupidity and questioned whether the proposal to create nine voting districts across the city would really advance equal voting rights, saying "It does collide with logic".In perhaps the

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He won't ever go away. Former Governor and 1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee Michael Dukakis was at it again, letting us all know we should stop picking on Deval Patrick about his wife's depression.The best quote from this story:"Former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, whose wife waged a public battle with booze, pills and depression and wrote two books about it, said the media should just leave Gov.

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This one's from Deval Patrick Watch:Apparently Deval's approval ratings are dropping quicker than a hooker's drawers. His approval rating is down a whopping 20 points and his disapproval rating up 22. Yikes.Read the story from CBS here.

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What the!? Why aren't there any statues for these books at the Doctor Seuss park in the Quadrangle?

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Is it utterly impossible for Democrats to look at their own and raise an eyebrow? In the latest 'How Dare You' piece by a member of the liberal Boston media, Margery Eagan is quick to point out all the mean-face, Republican evil-doers who also apparently hot-dogged on the job in an attempt to justify Governor Deval's recent issues. This one though, took the taco:Perhaps you have heard about Mitt

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in distress at not recieving much of a favorable nod from talk radio, recently revived the specter of the Fairness Doctrine. This concept was introduced and rapidly killed in the last century. She was joined in this clamor by fellow liberals, to no one's surprise.The essence of the Fairness Doctrine is equality in presenting points of view. The idea is that if

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I love the National Review. A great read from them on House Democrats.

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Would an event like this draw 300 people. For those of you who are curious, yes, this is front page news on masslive.com.

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SPRINGFIELD - School Committee member Marjorie J. Hurst testified today that backing failed mayoral candidate Thomas M. Ashe in 2005 boosted her political career in by exposing her to more white voters.Hurst, taking the stand in the second week of a voting rights trial in U.S. District Court, said Ashe's lopsided loss to Mayor Charles V. Ryan coincided with her strongest-ever showing in a School

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If you've been engaging in commentary on the various blogs on the Internet and around various places on the Internet, I'm sure you've become quite familiar with many of the changing attitudes within the Republican Party, both nationally and here in Massachusetts as well.Somewhere in the last 10-15 years or so, many of the columns and pundits who were, for a long time, the standard bearers for the

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Yikes, Even Reuter's is giving Deval Patrick some rough treatment these days. An interesting, all encompassing summary of Deval's more than shaky start.

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With the weekend being fairly slow, I figured I'd take some time to take a look at the Presidential Race thus far and try to make some sense of where all this has been and is heading in the next couple of months.The Republican CandidatesRudy Giuliani-- Rudy has run an extremely solid campaign thus far. His 80-20 message seemed to sit OK with Conservatives at CPAC a week or two ago and generally

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Here's this week's calender of events! Remember, if you want us to post an event, contact us at Massfederalist@gmail.com! For future reference, PLEASE send in the Name of your event, what it is (meeting, dinner, lunch, cage match), where it is, what time and WHO to contact and at what number or email address.Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Event: Republican Club of Southeastern Massachusetts Where

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I just got an email from the National Rifle Association. Check out what I found!Looks Like Deval Patrick's 2008 budget has a nice little piece slipped in there to make sure that written notifications for Firearms ID Cards and License to Carry permits are done a way with altogether. Usually, these laws require that a permit holder is notified 90 days before his or her permit expires.The new

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Politics 101: When seedy stories of corruption under your rule begin to take hold, try to make people feel sorry for you. Sympathy always works.So here we Governor Deval Patrick's Wife is now officially depressed.I hope Diana Patrick gets better, but really, this whole thing is far too convenient to not at least arouse suspicion. A lead story in the Sunday edition of the most widely read paper in

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SPRINGFIELD - A former black city councilor and a veteran campaign worker for black political candidates today told a federal judge they received chilly receptions from white voters during election years.Carol Lewis-Caulton, who served on the council from 2001 to 2003, and Democratic City Committee Chairman E. Henry Twiggs, were among witnesses testifying in an ongoing voting rights trial in U.S

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Governor Deval Patrick has a few things to say about the illegal immigrants rounded up yesterday in New Bedford.The plight of families affected by a New Bedford immigration raid is a "humanitarian crisis" and it's not over, Gov. Deval Patrick said Friday.The governor's description of the fallout from Tuesday's raid on the Michael Bianco Inc. factory came as he announced that some detainees who

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UP COMING STUFFThe MassGOP campaign school Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:00-3:00 p.m. at the Quincy Marriott. For more information, contact Rob Willington at 1-617-523-5005; Ext. 228, or via e-mail atRwillington@massgop.com.The Western Massachusetts Republicans will host its annual Calvin Coolidge BanquetThursday, March 22, 5:30 p.m. at The Log Cabin Restaurant, 500 Easthampton Rd., Holyoke.

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Philosopher Hanna Arendt always like to say that “politics is not the nursery”, but if one was to take a quick look at today’s political climate, one will see this proved untrue if not undeniably false. Triangulatio, which is the practice of playing opposing forces against one another lest by any chance one’s own principles be considered “offensive”, is now widely practiced in political

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Because people don't talk about the good going on in Springfield. In a time when it's hard to crack a smile, stories like this are refreshing.

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In a story found on the Springfield Republican's website, State Representative Cheryl Coakley-Rivera (D-Springfield) painted a 'dismal picture of Racial Equality in Springfield'.Que political grand standing at it's worst in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...State Rep. Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera, D-Springfield, who is of Irish and Puerto Rican descent, testified she believes her Anglo roots have helped her win white

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More teachers are diddling kids these days, but no one seems to really care. At least not with the kind of outrage and gusto in fighting the problem in the Catholic Church. So where is it? Where's the Outrage? Because they don't invoke God, does it somehow make them less fun to go after?Here's A Principal in Long Island, some diddling in Peoria, IL and last but never least, a New York City school

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When I tell people I'm from Massachusetts and Republican, their first reaction is usually one of shock. After a little while the look at me like I'm some sort of ice man that was just found in Switzerland and give me the old 'I didn't know those existed'.Lately, the statement that follows that is "SO, whatcha think of this Mitt Romney guy eh? You supporting him?"When I say I haven't decided yet,

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Here's a great piece on Fathers by Jack Dunphy in this week's National Review. Great stuff.The far left has done a pretty good demolition job on Dads in the past 30 years or so. To be a single mom is praised by the media, particularly television. Unfortunately, what is shown and praised are single moms that are successful. The reality is very few are successful.It's not to say us Dads and To-Be

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After a few failed attempts, advocates of Ward Representation in Springfield have gone to the courts, suing the city on the basis that the current at-large voting system used to elect city councilors has rigged the system to work against minority voters.Hopefully, someone lays the smack-down on this before it causes serious, if not irreparable damage to democratic government in the city of

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Looks like the Governor is in a little more trouble than he bargained for.The following was reported on masslive.com: BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick, a day after saying he regrets making a phone call to Citigroup on behalf of a struggling lending company on whose board he once served, said "don't give up on me," as the state Republican Party called for an ethics investigation."I will

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