Mr. Foreman, you HAVE to choose a side…
Earlier this week, a lawsuit against the city of Boston was resolved. A couple injured in a car crash were suing the city for pain and suffering. They wanted $7,000,…
Welcome to Massachusetts: you WILL have a happy Thanksgiving — or else
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. The day when people traditionally spend time with their families and other loved ones, a brief respite from such concerns as work. Most businesses are closed, and…
Compassion Uber Alles
Last week WRKO's John DePetro (now my favorite talk show host) had "Illegal Thursday," where he had two illegal aliens who would like to attend Massachusetts state-run colleges at the…
An utterly empty symbolic gesture
A group of anti-war organizations in Massachusetts are pushing a petition around the state. If they get enough signatures, next November the voters in Massachusetts will vote on whether or…
Fairy dollars
In the latest dust-up over whether illegal aliens should be granted in-state tuition to state-run colleges in Massachusetts, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is weighing in. In their learned opinion, granting…
I suppose this was inevitable…
As a response to a rise in gun violence in Boston recently (a fact officials frantically tried to keep quiet before last Tuesday's election), Mayor Thomas "Mumbles" Menino is calling…
Muffy the liberal slayer
If there's one constant in life beyond death and taxes, it's that politics in Massachusetts is never boring. Next year there's going to be a race for governor in Massachusetts….
Fruit of the poisoned tree
I've had my share of fun at Lawrence, Massachusetts' expense. I've called it "the armpit of the Bay State," among other things. Every now and then, though, I hear something…
"I'm gonna sue you for not stopping me!"
For several reasons (some of them quite good), I don't drink at all. I'm a complete teetotaler. None of those issues are moral ones, but I've never had any patience…
Vox populi
Yesterday, a miracle happened in Massachusetts. Governor Mitt Romney signed a new drunk-driving bill into law, toughening the penalties and removing some of the roadblocks that had been in place…
Massachusetts Attorney General goes on drug-crazed rampage
Massachusetts, like many other states, is having a bit of a problem with Oxycontin. There are a lot of Oxy addicts around, and many pharmacies have had to post signs…
I won't say "sanity prevails," but the insanity is reined in slightly…
There's good news and bad news out of Massachusetts this morning. Yesterday I mentioned that a bunch of illegal aliens held a rally at the State House to demand in-state…
"We're criminals, and we demand our rights to break even more of your laws!"
As I've said before, one of Boston's great strengths is it's one of the few two-newspaper cities left in this country. With the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald continuing…
Good thing the Oldsmobile was in the shop…
From both the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe comes this heart-warming story. It seems Ted Kennedy was out along the beach at the Kennedy Compound over the weekend when…
I gotta try this "it was just a metaphor" excuse some time…
The police in Somerville, Massachusetts recently arrested a guy they'd been looking for for some time now. There's been a rash of graffiti around the city, and it's had quite…
Gay marriage and the fragile tyranny of the minority
In my posting on gay marriage yesterday, a few commenters questioned the sincerity of my belief in gay marriage, saying that subsuming it to public opinion gave me an "easy…
All you ever needed to know about Boston traffic…
…is right here. A car thief was chased down and caught by police officers on bicycles….
A breakdown in transportation theory
Traffic was tied up in knots for a few hours yesterday in Methuen, Massachusetts from a rather nasty traffic accident on Interstate 495 South. I haven't found any accounts online,…
Crime and punishment, Boston-style
With unemployment at quite manageable levels, it seems that most people who want a job can find one. It might not be their dream job or their career choice, but…
Pride goeth before a fall
On the very same day Tom DeLay was indicted for campaign-finance charges, so too was a Massachusetts State Senator sued by the state Attorney General over similar matters. Senator Dianne…
If it weren't for bad ideas, they'd have no ideas at all
There's a quote from "Alice In Wonderland" where Alice says that sometimes she believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast. In that vein, I find that I can…
Only in Massachusetts…
Saturdays are supposed to be slow news days. It must be a full moon, though, because I find myself with a full slate of Massachusetts lunacy. First up, in the…
The thin blue line of freedom
I've often discussed the huge philosophical differences between my own New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that persistent reminder of just how things could be worse, just to our south. But it's…
Well, at least he's entertaining himself…
I've been following the case of Joseph Druce, the Massachusetts man who killed convicted pedophile and defrocked Catholic priest John Geoghan while the two were in prison. Druce is now…
Sodom on the Merrimack
I've often decried the vile, despicable, corrupt, run-down, gang-infested, crime-riddled, drug-awash city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. It really is, in microcosm, a wonderful case study of what's wrong with American cities….
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