Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Who’s Dumber, Trump Or His Supporters?
Ken
O’Brien
I have sat back in stunned disbelief as an
orange-skinned toupee mannequin has cruised to the Republican nomination for
President.
I am now even more steeped in disbelief as I watch
the leadership of the Republican Party dutifully assemble in support of this
centerfold for Carrot And Moss Monthly. Never has there been more profound
evidence of the observation that while Democrats fall in love Republicans fall
in line.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
The Mobster Candidate For President
By
David Cay Johnston
In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald
Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he
persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his
background to six months. Most potential owners were scrutinized for more than
a year. Trump argued that he was “clean as a whistle”—young enough that he
hadn’t had time to get into any sort of trouble. He got the sped-up background
check, and eventually got the casino license.
But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning
three years earlier, he’d hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his
Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly
overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat
Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal
investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated
with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited
from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was
under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn,
who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central
railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
It’s The Economy (In Kansas), Stupid!
 |
| Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas |
As we sit on the verge of another Presidential
campaign, the fundamental consideration before Americans is how it will affect
the state of the U.S. economy and consequently our daily lives.
Many pundits (most notably those of the Conservative
persuasion) frequently point out that the individual states are a laboratory
for policy prescriptions before they are adopted on a national level.
With that in mind, it is an object lesson in policy
to look at the experience of the state of Kansas. Since the election of a
conservative legislative majority and a staunch conservative governor, Sam
Brownback, in 2010, it has adopted a full blown commitment to the principles of
supply-side economics.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Southbridge Town Council Agenda - May 9, 2016
MacKinnon Council Chambers
May 9, 2016
7 PM
Agenda
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