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http://bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/12/05/elizabeth-warren-ended-senate-campaign-debt-despite-record-fund-raising/ShWe5K7KzUiVnFHiIxkX5H/story.html

http://freebeacon.com/see-no-evil/ I'll just leave this here and continue to watch this flame war make Hiroshima look like a Girl Scout trying to light a match.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/113012-635352-bush-tax-cuts-did-not-cause-deficits.htm White House Data Debunk Myth Bush Cuts Built Deficit By PAUL SPERRY Posted 11/30/2012 06:24 PM ET...

Granting large swaths of people the right to vote (preferably once) and then bribing them with other peoples' money or property usually works better. (See South America and Africa for details) Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense...

The US isn't a democracy it is a democratic republic. True democracies never work because of the majority always voting itself the minority's stuff. Freedom without responsibility is a paradox. It can't exist. A large segment of the population currently receives a larger refund or benefits than...

The concept of only allowing taxpayers to vote is that people with taxable income game will be more careful about whom they put into office. There is also the issues of a majority, whom might not pay taxes, which decides to vote themselves the property of the minority or vote for politicians...

May I suggest you peruse Watertown?

Re: Hong Luk Project - Chinatown One has to appreciate how a poor subsidized elderly housing developer could afford the expense to save several of these lovely, yet relatively historically insignificant, facades; when just down the street, dirt poor, destitute, and almost homeless Ron Druker...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos So when can we expect the new blissfully 'qualified' MBTA GM to decide the Green Line is unsafe and needs to be permanently bustituted?

Arguing on the internet is the best use of anyone's time Don't raise the debt ceiling to force the government to pay down the national debt regardless of what the tax code and rates are. Say no to giving the executive office the authority to unilaterally raise the U.S. borrowing ceiling with...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion That building was the headquarters for the Pope Manufacturing Company (bicycles). Several stories were added in the 1920s to stretch the building vertically.

Popular Vote favors population centers and doesn't adequately represent the majority of the country. Cities are important, but the rural areas which grow all our food, mine raw materials, and now host a significant portion of manufacturing are important too. A government elected by LA, NYC, and...

The tubes ran to the post office in Post Office Square. Several of the old office buildings and the department stores downtown had messenger tube systems with a direct connection in the central mail room to the post office.

Idea for reforming the Electoral College: change the Electoral System such that each Congressional District is a mini election. The congressional delegate from each district would then cast a vote based on the results.

The GSD is principally a club to meet the right people to work for or get your foot into the door of academia someplace influential. Accept that, and the remains of the day seem less absurd The older sketches depict a density and vibrancy rivaling, if not surpassing, the historic downtown core...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/ THEY CRACKED THIS 250-YEAR-OLD CODE, and found a secret society inside. “For more than 260 years, the contents of that page—and the details of this ritual—remained a secret. They were hidden in a coded manuscript, one of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZtHFxIs6so&feature=youtu.be Another one for Mr. Newman

Re: Residences at Kensington Two words: Foreign Investors FI can also be understood to abbreviate a term more appropriate to this forum's taste.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324352004578136931848743300.html?mod=rss_opinion_main Jenkins: None Dare Call It Default A nicer term for what's about to sock the middle class is 'entitlement reform. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. To call Greece First World may be a stretch...

Toll the highways to NH, since most of our sales tax money is fleeing quite logically to the north. Or get rid of the sales tax and collect other increased retail taxes from the commerce staying local. I'd also add open road tolling and get rid of the overpaid & unnecessary staffed booths...