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Sightings
Globe
Responds to Our Stories
Our story about
medical errors and deaths in Massachusetts hospitals was quickly answered
by the Globe with a story on their front page on February 17. Their
answer originated at the Massachusetts Hospital Association and outlined
the steps those hospitals are taking to reduce drug errors. (See our
editorial on page 8.)
The Globe
also replied to our story about how developers are ruining the environment
and creating sprawl throughout the state by their manipulation of the
“anti-snob law.” Their answer appeared as the lead article on the Globe’s
“Section B” front page on February 18 under the headline, “State, towns
clash on low-cost housing.”
We appreciate
the Globe’s acknowledgment that the truths in Massachusetts News are
being heard throughout the state.
Why
So Many Liberals in Mass.?
When it was announced a few
years back that V.P. Al Gore was giving only about $500 a year to charity,
many people said that showed why he was a liberal. He was stingy and
therefore he thought everyone else was just like him, so it was imperative
that the government had to help everyone. Now we find out that Massachusetts
is 45th in charitable giving by those residents making over $100,000.
But we’re in good company. Rhode Island was 46th, Connecticut 47th and
New Hampshire 49th.
Boston
Minister Approached by President Bush
The iconoclastic,
independent black minister, Gene Rivers of Dorchester, is getting a
lot of publicity as one of the black ministers to whom President Bush
is extending a hand. The pastor is well known as the man who has lived
in the worst section of Boston for many years with his wife and children
and has had bullets fired through his house by drug dealers. The liberal
establishment is not sure whether to cheer or attack him. Both the Globe
and the Phoenix have had stories about him. They say he is under fire
for challenging Jesse Jackson. They have apparently taken a wait-and-see
attitude.
What
Did Jane Swift Promise?
Many are wondering
what Jane Swift promised to the Globe. She has received nothing but
laudatory articles from them. She must have signed on to their political
agenda, according to the speculation of many observers.
Response
About Women
at MIT was Embarrassing
The Globe’s response
to our story (and to a column in their paper) about MIT caving in to
women professors in its biology department was so embarrassing that
one must wonder if Renee Loth knows anything about what was revealed.
(She’s the former political editor at the Phoenix who is now the chief
feminist in charge of the Globe’s editorial page.)
The Globe
was upset because the Independent Women’s Forum has demolished the foolish
report written by feminist faculty at MIT that the school had systematically
discriminated against them. In response to the Women’s Forum the Globe
published a long letter from a retired Harvard psychiatrist. In the
first paragraph of his letter, he said he was answering revelations
by the Women’s Forum but he never did that. He immediately went into
a diatribe about how women have always been discriminated against. It’s
just another example of the sad fact that no matter what light is shed
by the most intelligent people, the Globe will always spin it their
way without bothering with the facts. Is there never to be an intelligent
discussion about anything with those people?
Even the
topic that the retired psychiatrist did discuss was not cogent. He has
apparently not read the famous book, The Feminine Mystique by Betty
Friedan, where she tells how professors at the top colleges in the country
were begging women in the 1950s to stay in college, but no one would
listen. “In the last analysis,” she wrote, “millions of able women in
this free land chose, themselves, not to use the door education could
have opened for them. The choice – and the responsibility – for the
race back home was finally their own.”
Doesn’t
the Globe know any history or don’t they care?
An article
about the MIT study was prominent is our web site early.
Andy
Card Causes Concern in Washington
Andy Card, the
president’s new Chief of Staff, is being watched closely by the pro-life
movement, according to the family organization, Focus on the Family.
They were told by Judie Brown, American Life League: “Andrew Card, for
example, is a known pro-abortion advocate. He’s on record. He has made
many statements to that effect.”
But Richard
Lessner, with American Renewal, was more sanguine. “We are always concerned
about personnel, because in Washington as we know, policy is personnel
and personnel is policy,” Lessner said. “[Card is] a Massachusetts Republican,
and in Massachusetts to be a Republican means you’re probably going
to be a fairly moderate-to-liberal individual. That’s simply the nature
of the territory of the Northeast.”
He was
quick to add, however, that Card served well in the elder Bush’s administration.
“The Chief
of Staff’s job is to carry out the wishes and the mandates of the president,”
Lessner said. “So long as President Bush is solid on our conservative
issues, we don’t need to be overly concerned about Andy Card.”
Wealthy
Lawyers Lobby for Feminists
The wealthy members
of the Boston Bar Association are being urged to “Walk to the Hill,”
on March 1 at 11 a.m. to show their support for “adequate state funding
of civil legal services for the poor,” i.e., those poverty lawyers who
work for feminist causes. President Joan Lukey will lead the BBA delegation.
Those lawyers
who will be too busy supervising the new walnut paneling in their offices
are urged to send an email petition. The Walk is also known as “feathering
your nest” with the chief feminist, Chief Justice Margaret Marshall
of the Supreme Judicial Court.
Lawyers
Promote Course in ‘Humanistic’ Practice
The BBA is urging
its members to attend a meeting by the Center for Contemplative Mind
in Society to discuss how to attain a “humanistic professional life.”
The Center offers four-day retreats to explore a “contemplative practice.”
Abortionist
Worried About
Link to Breast Cancer
The largest abortionist
group in the state, Planned Parenthood, is concerned about a new book
which could hurt their profitable business. It shows that: 1) A woman
who has an abortion before her first full-term pregnancy has a 50% increased
risk of developing breast cancer. 2) If she takes birth control pills
before her first child, she has at least a 40% increased risk. 3) If
she has taken the pill for four or more years before her first child,
she has a 72% risk factor.
“The risk
is especially great if the woman has participated in either of these
factors at a young age,” says the author of Breast Cancer: Its Link
to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill, Dr. Chris Kahlenborn.
Worcester
Gets Pro-Life Group
A new pro-life
group, Life Action League of Massachusetts, has been started in Worcester
by Laurie Letourneau who has been active in the pro-life movement in
the state for years. She believes that the central part of the state
needs its own voice. “It is time for us to rejuvenate ourselves in the
fight for life,” she says. Other members of its board are Nina Tsantinis,
Kathy Lake, Rod Murphy, Patricia Taylor, Dr. John Harding, Tom Woods
and Matt Letourneau. Its address is P.O. Box 342, Worcester 016513,
telephone 508-842-4807, email mfletou@prodigy.net
There will
be a dinner at the First Assembly of God, Worcester, on Saturday, March
10, at 6 p.m. where Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for
Life, will speak.
Dept.
of Ed. Seeks High
Schools to Promote GSAs
The state’s Department
of Education has advertised for eight to ten high schools with “model”
gay/straight alliances to receive grants up to $5,000 to “assist three
to five other high schools in the region in the formation of gay/straight
alliances or strengthening of existing groups.” A total of $40,000 in
tax money is available.
Herald’s
Editorial Editor Attacks Parent
Brian Camenker
has been called a “zealot” by the editorial page editor at the Boston
Herald who wrote: “And surely between now and Cellucci’s confirmation
hearings someone will tell the increasingly shrill Brian Camenker of
the Parents Rights Coalition to simply go to his room. Camenker wants
to lay on Cellucci’s doorstep an unfortunate sex education workshop
which resulted in the firing of two Department of Education counselors
by the state’s education commissioner. That the matter was dispatched
quickly by a Cellucci administration appointee actually speaks to the
governor’s impatience with impropriety, not his tolerance of it. But
you can’t reason with zealots and Camenker is a zealot,” wrote the editor,
Rachelle Cohen.
Camenker
particularly enjoyed the words “unfortunate sex education workshop”
to describe the Fistgate scandal. “Here they were teaching children
the most disgusting and health-threatening
sex acts and she calls it ‘unfortunate,’” he said.
Story
on Sprawl Gets a Twist
Our story in the last issue
about the EPA’s concern over suburban sprawl in Massachusetts which
is largely caused by the state’s anti-snob law got a twist by a London
newspaper last month. They announced why Americans are so fat. It’s
not the food they eat, the paper said. “The mystery as to why Americans
have become the fattest people on the planet have been uncovered by
public health experts, who say that decades of uncontrolled suburban
sprawl conceived around the motor car have left them unable to walk
even if they wish to.”
The paper
said that at least one in five Americans are defined as obese.
Chester
Darling Is Cited by Other
Lawyers in Removal of Judge Gertner
The people at Microsoft were happy to hear about the removal
by the U.S. Court of Appeals of Judge
Nancy Gertner at the request of civil rights attorney Chester Darling.
They cited the case last month within days after its release in its
request to have the judge removed from its antitrust appeal.
Brutal
Poverty Lawyer Teaches
Others At Boston Bar
The poverty lawyer
who has brutalized Ken Newell and his children over twenty-six false
charges of violence from his former wife will chair a panel about Domestic
Violence at the Boston Bar Association on March 27 from 4 p.m. to 7
p.m. Atty. Pauline Quirion will lead judges and lawyers in telling BBA
members (for a $95 fee) the latest about the law “protecting victims
and their children from abuse.”
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