Author: Glen Johnson
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Palin fires up tea-party movement in Boston
BOSTON — Sarah Palin rallied the conservative tea party movement near the scene of its historical inspiration Wednesday, telling Washington politicians that government should be working for the people, not the other way around. Addressing roughly 5,000 people, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee accused President Barack Obama of overreaching with his $787 billion stimulus…
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Boston tea rally has glaring absence: Scott Brown
BOSTON — When the Tea Party Express pulls into the city where the conservative movement got its name, the crowd will be as notable for who’s not there as for who is. Sarah Palin is the keynote speaker Wednesday, but Republican Sen. Scott Brown is skipping the event. The movement claims his upset January election…
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Rap star says Romney started confrontation
BOSTON — A rapper with the Grammy-nominated club act LMFAO says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him — and not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia. Sky Blu, whose given name is Skyler Gordy, says…
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Obama mourns Kennedy, greatest senator of our time
CHILMARK, Mass. — A grieving President Barack Obama paid tribute to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Wednesday, calling him a colleague, counselor and friend who etched his place in history as a “singular figure” on the American political landscape. “Even though we knew this day was coming, we awaited it with no small amount of dread,”…
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Audit finds celebrity records improperly checked
BOSTON – It turns out Massachusetts law enforcement officers have been engaging in a bit of star search themselves – on the likes of Tom Brady and Matt Damon. A new audit says law enforcement and judicial employees have conducted hundreds of criminal record searches on Massachusetts celebrities. A state official says personal information for…
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Analysis: McCain leads a dual life as powerbroker
VIENNA, Ohio – John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song.Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city. Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways.It’s a remarkable dichotomy echoed throughout the Republican establishment, as a party that’s held the…
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McCain says government ‘forced’ to bail out AIG
LAKE ORION, Mich. – Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a day after flatly rejecting the idea of a taxpayer bailout for American International Group Inc., said today that the government had been “forced” into proposing an $85 billion loan to the nation’s largest insurer.McCain appeared to soften his opposition to the bailout proposed by the…
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McCain to give big speech on rebuilt stage
ST. PAUL, Minn. – John McCain embarks on his final drive for the White House tonight, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and addressing the party’s national convention from a stage that workers were hastily rebuilding to fit his “town hall” approach.Elsewhere, on the final day of the convention, a lot of the talk was still…