By Michael M. Shapiro This past month, Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig and Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean and senior advisor to John Edwards in their runs for the White House, teamed up to form “Change Congress,”…
Category: Opinion
Voice of the People: Another Taxpayer-Funded Political Hack Job
by James J Devine The first New Jersey lieutenant governor will be elected in 2009. When New Jersey selects our first lieutenant governor next year, that person will still not be someone with a statewide electoral mandate if he should…
The Shapiro Report: Fewer Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
By Michael M. Shapiro Last month, the New Jersey State Senate approved legislation that would ban members of the Legislature from serving on the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards, the committee that investigates allegations of ethical impropriety made against…
What America Means To Me
by James J. Devine, Publisher, Atom Tabloid & Citizen-Gazette Some people are upset about an advertisement that appeared in newspapers I publish. Created by an organization – http://www.tompaine.com – that believes President Bush is using the call to arms against Iraq…
The pig with a wooden leg
Once I was driving along a country road and saw a farmer with pig that had a wooden leg. I went to the farmer and asked him about the pig. “That there is an remarkable pig, an incredible pig, the…