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The truth behind Obama’s sliding approval rating
By Marc Levy
Published: August 27, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Neither pollsters nor top news sources acknowledge that the plunge in the president’s popularity results from more than a lingering recession — namely an extreme and unprecedented split of a rabid far right and disappointed progressives.
Peabody police officials call meeting Tuesday
By Marc Levy
Published: May 23, 2010 at 01:57 PM
The Cambridge Police Department sergeants in the Peabody neighborhood invite the area’s residents and businesses to a meeting Tuesday.
9/11 theorist turns to Afghan war
By Marc Levy
Published: May 6, 2010 at 06:31 PM
David Ray Griffin is a theologian and educator who may be most famous — or notorious — for his belief that the Bush administration let the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, happen for political ends. He’s explored the idea in such books as “The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé” [...]
Surveillance cameras remain despite council order
By Marc Levy
Published: May 3, 2010 at 08:18 PM
More than two months after city councillors lashed into the city manager for ignoring their order to take down surveillance cameras, the scene replayed Monday as the city manager admitted the cameras still stood.
Councillors speak up, act out on Gates committee, other police matters
By Marc Levy
Published: February 24, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Complaining of a lack of information and results from the committee formed after the racially charged arrest of a Harvard professor, city councillors rejected — for now — the city manager’s request for $31,360 in committee expenses.
Adding travel restrictions won’t keep us safe. It never has.
By Marc Levy
Published: December 26, 2009 at 02:06 PM
Can homeland security officials really, really be this dumb? They keep piling on airline travel restrictions as a response to attempts at terrorism, and they don’t work. At the risk of drawing the wrath of safety officials around the world, I’m going to explain how terrorists think: Whatever the restrictions are, they try something different.
No need for controversy over Obama, Gates arrest and Fort Hood shootings
By Marc Levy
Published: November 9, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Twitter, the blogosphere and conservative media in general are hopping with unfounded and irresponsible allegations of hypocrisy by President Barack Obama, comparing what he said about Thursday’s shootings at Fort Hood — that “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts” — with what he said after the July 16 arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., that “I don’t know all the facts, [but] Cambridge police acted stupidly.”
It’s time to retire three-ounce rule. Terrorists won’t notice.
By Marc Levy
Published: October 16, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Transportation Security Officials had said they were “confident” airport restrictions on large containers would end this year as they rolled out technology to detect explosives in liquids and gels. Actually, they were overconfident, just as they’ve been about the three-ounce rule all along, and the rule will stay in place.
Being pragmatic, Obama stumbles into Peace Prize
By Marc Levy
Published: October 9, 2009 at 08:31 AM
President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize makes sense from an international point of view when looking at the language the committee uses in its announcement: It applauds that “multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position.” It’s the “You’re not George W. Bush award.”
In taking down “birthers,” Review reveals blind spot on Iraq
By Marc Levy
Published: August 2, 2009 at 11:18 PM
To their credit, the editors of the conservative National Review have written and syndicated an essay attempting to end the “birther” controversy. This is the theory Barack Obama can’t be president because he isn’t a “natural-born” U.S. citizen as required by law. The National Review presents evidence to the contrary, ridicules true believers and notes [...]