Special interest junkets: Massachusetts lawmakers exposed
A reader sent this link to a Boston Herald piece that talked about the free rides some Massachuetts lawmakers have rec’d courtesy of special interest groups:
A reader sent this link to a Boston Herald piece that talked about the free rides some Massachuetts lawmakers have rec’d courtesy of special interest groups:
(Scroll down for the Saturday update – original time and date of this post was May 12 at 11:57 a.m. ET)
There have been many fallouts from the NYTimes original ‘revelations’ regarding the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program, fallouts that I’ll remind everyone of at the end of this post. Today, we learn that as a result of the USAToday’s rehashing of an old NYT story about NSA datamining, that Verizon is being sued. Via AP:
If you’re a Republican, from time to time you’ll hear or read a Democrat say – in response to you’re bringing up a Clinton misdeed – something like this: “Why are you so obsessed with Clinton? He’s not President anymore!” While it’s understandable that Democrats who chastize you for bringing up the name of he-who-walks-on-water would be so defensive on the topic of our former liar-in-chief, Republicans shrug it off and respond back correctly by essentially saying that what Clinton did while he was in office is fair game because a lot of the problems we see today are as a result of his unwillingness or incompentence at handling those problems in a way that wouldn’t have left them open for another administration to have to deal with them. In addition to not understanding and/or not wanting to acknowledge that, the Democrats in denial of that also fail to see where our media – just as they did while he was President – have an obsession with all things Clinton … sometimes over issues related to Hillary, but mostly it’s Bill.
The Boston Herald reports today that witnesses told the Capitol police that Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who recently checked into a rehab center after blaming an early morning Capitol Hill accident on his use of prescription drugs, was seen drinking that night at a bar called the Hawk and Dove: