by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 30, 2010 | News
“Few trends could so much undermine our free society as the acceptance by corporate executives of social responsibility other than to make as much money for shareholders as possible.” That’s economist Milton Friedman speaking in 1970, quoted in The...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 30, 2010 | News
By the end of this month, the U.S. will have spent $1.05 trillion to fight the wars in Iraq ($747.3 billion) and Afghanistan ($299 billion), according to the Northampton-based National Priorities Project. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to come up with a...
by Tom Vannah | Oct 7, 2010 | News
Nearly 10 years ago to the day, I wrote a column about Stephen Buoniconti, then a 31-year-old assistant district attorney in Hampden County who was running against an entrenched Republican, Walter DeFilippi, for state rep in the 6th Hampden District. I remember...
by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 7, 2010 | News
It wouldn’t have been surprising to see Dinesh D’Souza’s article “How Obama Thinks” on a far-right-wing blog. But it’s worth noticing when such a transparent attempt to discredit the president of the United States turns up in a...
by Our Readers | Oct 7, 2010 | News
Higher Taxes Don’t Hurt According to that left-leaning, liberal rag “Forbes,” the following are the 10 happiest countries in the world: Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. One thing...
