by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Articles
2012 US Senate candidates Todd Akin (R-MO and Richard Mourdock (R-IN) advanced in the General Election for those seats with the certainty of winning, but they ended up losing over stray remarks over abortion. So goes the political thinking of our time. Granted, they...
by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Articles
Governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown re-entered office in 2010 (her had served as governor from 1975-1983) with a ten-point lead ahead of Ebay CEO Meg Whitman, a pro-choice and now pro-gay marriage Republican who had hoped that her business savvy could help turn...
by altha-admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Articles
In my previous piece, I was whining because General Treasurer Gina Raimondo had not filed a lawsuit against California Governor Jerry Brown. Still, California’s chief executive (if this Democrat can take the lead against his own party) has more pressing, depressing,...
by altha-admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Articles
Consider once again the example of Naomi in the Book of Ruth. She was left with nothing, so she thought. She was bitter because she had a wrong view of God, that it was His fault that her life was completely desolate. Yet God was just setting her up for greater...
by altha-admin | Aug 5, 2013 | Articles
Congressman James McGovern (or McGovernment, as one Go Local reader pithily commented), has opened up a new office in Worcester. An incumbent Massachusetts Democrat (yes, a deadening tautology, but bear with me), Rep. McGovern now has three offices in his 2nd...