(5/7/2012) Former basketball star Charles Barkley weighed in on the presidential race
during an NBA broadcast on Sunday night, saying that Democrats would "beat"
presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney "like a drum in November."
Romney, who was at the playoff game between the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta
Hawks with his wife Ann, was shown mingling with the crowd at Boston's TD
Garden during a broadcast on TNT.
"We're going to beat you like a drum in November," Barkley said as the camera
cut to the former Massachusetts governor. "Don't take it personally. You seem
like a nice guy, but you're going down, bro."
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(5/11/2012) BOSTON -- Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the
University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School
under a program for minority students.
The records on Elizabeth Warren were obtained by The Associated Press on
Thursday. Warren's heritage has been under scrutiny after it surfaced that she
had listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school
directories.
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(4/30/2012) BOSTON -- The U.S. Senate campaign pitting Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott
Brown and likely Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has taken an
unexpected turn by delving into whether Warren has claimed Native American
heritage in her academic career.
Warren, who grew up in Oklahoma, said she's proud of her family ties to
Cherokee and Delaware tribes - a heritage she said she learned through stories
passed down to her from older family members.
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(5/3/2012) Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) criticized Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren's
"elitist attitude" and called her challenge of his decision to insure his 23
year-old daughter under his congressional plan under an Obamacare provision
"sad," speaking to reporters Wednesday after a Boston speech calling for
bipartisanship.
Brown was asked about a recent campaign release headlined "ELIZABETH WARREN:
ELITIST HYPOCRITE?" that attacked his likely Democratic opponent for not
paying Massachusetts' optional higher income tax rate. (Brown didn't pay the
voluntary 5.85 rate either and opted for the 5.3 flat rate.)
"The way she is approaching things in terms of knowing better than others, how
to do things, the fact that the federal government can do things better than
individual businesses and individuals," he answered, according to AP. "There
is an elitist attitude there in the way she is communicating to us as citizens
and telling us how do things, who should be taxed, who should not be taxed."
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(5/2/2012) BOSTON -- The U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts is not only one of the most
closely watched in the nation, it's also turning out to be the most expensive.
Campaign donations in the contest between GOP incumbent Sen. Scott Brown and
his chief Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, have already topped $30 million,
with Election Day still more than six months away.
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(5/9/2012) BOSTON -- A retired Massachusetts state trooper who was a model for Norman
Rockwell's 1958 Saturday Evening Post illustration, "The Runaway," has died.
Massachusetts State Police said 83-year-old retired Staff Sgt. Richard Clemens
Jr. died Sunday after a brief illness.
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(6 days ago) BOSTON -- The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy will be giving a spring
commencement speech at a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts after all.
Boston College Law School announced Friday that Victoria Kennedy will give the
keynote address at its May 25 commencement.
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(5/9/2012) NYTimes.com's Pete Thamel reports that the NCAA sent two members of its
enforcement staff to Massachusetts this week to inquire about Nerlens Noel,
the country's top basketball recruit who recently committed to play at
Kentucky. From Thamel's story: Cindi Merrill and Frank Smith, assistant
directors of enforcement with the N.C.A.A., went to Everett High School [...]
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(5/9/2012) Boston Red Sox public address announcer Carl Beane, the voice of Fenway Park
since 2003, died in a one-car accident in central Massachusetts on Wednesday.
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(4/24/2012) Jose Canseco is a man who has worn many hats. In fact, the one he was
wearing when ...
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(4/23/2012) In Boston this fall, you won't need to keep up with your train ticket anymore
-- as long as you don't leave your smartphone at home. The Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Masabi have joined forces to bring a rail
ticketing to handheld devices via iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps.
Headquartered in London, Masabi has launched similar tech for transit
companies in the UK, eliminating ticket lines for many smartphone-wielding
passengers. Software will allow riders to purchase tickets and passes that are
validated with a barcode scan by conductors equipped with mobile devices of
their own. MBTA is looking to cut costs and provide added convenience with the
new system instead of adding more ticketing kiosks to its stations. The
aforementioned apps will be developed alongside focus groups and a small pilot
group this summer with a full rollout to all MBTA customers expected to happen
this fall. Looking for a bit more info? Hit the coverage and source links
below to read on.
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(5/2/2012)
_I'm this much Native American, really!_
"Sacaja-whiner:" Elizabeth Warren and the Oppression Olympics
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012
Elizabeth Warren is the Harvard law professor running for Senate in
Massachusetts as a Democratic populist-progressive champion. But don't call
her "Elizabeth Warren." Call her "Pinocchio-hontas," "Chief Full-of-Lies,"
"Running Joke" or "Sacaja-whiner."
Warren has claimed questionable Native American minority status for years to
reap career "diversity" benefits. Now, Cherokee leaders, campaign rival GOP
Sen. Scott Brown and an army of Twitter detractors have called her out for
gaming the racial-preference system. Live by identity politics, die by
identity politics.
The Boston Herald reported last Friday that Harvard administrators
"prominently touted Warren's Native American background … in an effort to
bolster their diversity hiring record in the '90s as the school came under
heavy fire for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male." When
asked for proof of her tribal heritage, Warren's campaign first denied that
she had ever bragged about it. But from 1986 to 1995, Warren listed herself as
a minority professor in a professional law school directory.
While the Democrat's team scrounged for evidence over the weekend, Warren
stalled for time by asserting that she didn't need ...
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(5/7/2012) Marianna is from North Carolina, and Micah is from Alabama, but the couple has
made its home in Arlington, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. By day,
they work in advertising, but they found themselves missing the South, so they
started Old Try as a way to reconnect. The create a range of prints: from
flags...
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(2 days ago) (_Wiley-Blackwell_) Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for
Children in Boston have determined that pediatric epilepsy significantly
impacts sleep patterns for the child and parents. According to the study
available in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of
the International League Against Epilepsy, sharing a room or co-sleeping with
their child with epilepsy decreases the sleep quality and prevents restful
sleep for parents.
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(5/2/2012) In the fall of 1999, I packed my tape recorder and traveled from my home
outside Boston to visit Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security
prison...
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(5/4/2012) “This is what happens when candidates don’t tell the truth.”
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(4/23/2012) () BOSTON -- A Massachusetts firefighter who claimed city officials bypassed
him for promotion because he missed work for military duty will be getting a
bump in rank.
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(5/4/2012) The $60 million joint venture enables video lesson segments, embedded quizzes,
immediate feedback, online laboratories and student-paced learning.
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(4/28/2012) Earlier this week, Sen. Scott Brown made a consequential and costly decision
for his campaign: to release his recent tax returns and to challenge Elizabeth
Warren to do the same.
Talk about a major blunder.
First, it turns out Brown has a haircut problem. The Boston Herald reported
that last year, Brown took a deduction of $1401 for hair, make up and
grooming. Wow. This is something that will haunt Brown for the remainder of
his campaign. Voters don’t much like career politicians who claim to be
earnest everymen while spending so much money on their vanity and grooming.
Second, it turns out that Scott Brown and his wife made $2.5 million over the
past six years, far more than the Brown campaign and the Massachusetts
Republican Party have let on in all their vitriolic and over the top
advertisements attacking Warren’s own income. What’s more, Brown’s income has
skyrocketed since he entered public service — news that has caught the eye of
pretty much every Massachusetts paper.
Earlier this year, Brown claimed his income was “not a heck of a lot. I mean,
you know, I don’t make a heck of a lot.” He will ...
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(4/30/2012) I _hate_ to admit being wrong, of course, but I'm pretty much stuck here. You
see, last week I RedHotted a post where in passing I more or less indicated
that I didn't think that it was particularly fair to ding MA senatorial
candidate Elizabeth Warren for her claims of Native American ancestry. When I
read the story, it seemed that she had merely repeated it as an anecdote from
her family history - which is to say, something that I've done myself (family
history claims a Huron great-grandmother; I have no evidence whatsoever for
this). I also didn't really think that it was all that big a deal that
Harvard University was claiming minority status for her_ for a time_;
universities do weird things for publicity, she wasn't running for office when
it happened, and besides, Harvard stopped doing that a while back anyway. I
figured that there were more important things that I could be doing with my
time.
Well. This is what happens when you trust the ethical sense of a progressive
politician. It turns out that Elizabeth Warren in fact claimed minority
status: specifically, in the "Association of American Law Schools’ ...
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