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Daily Archives: April 13th, 2009

The Day Shills for the Right

Monday, April 13, 2009

The right wing population in this area is small, but it has disproportionate influence with one of our institutions: the New London Day. Over the years the Day has been inundated with letters accusing it of right wing bias (while it was endorsing Republicans such as Simmons and George Bush). In response, the Day has […]

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Leave Tom Paine alone

Monday, April 13, 2009

Some people can never rest easy. Consider Poor Tom Paine. During the latter years of his life he was hounded, even on his deathbed, by what passed at the time as the American right-both secular and religious. His name was mud from the early nineteenth century until the mid twentieth, despite all he had done […]

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