I found a very intelligently written letter to the editor in the Boston Globe about the The Ills Of One-Party Rule in Massachusetts.

SCOTT BROWN is quite right that one-party rule by Democrats in Massachusetts causes problems for the state. The Republican Party could make itself part of the solution by nominating candidates to office whom residents would like to vote for.

When residents weigh the damage caused by one-party rule with the potential damage of voting for a Republican candidate whose ideas of governance would be even more damaging, they are forced to choose the lesser of the two evils.

One would think it wouldn’t be too hard to find nominees who would represent a lesser evil than some of our corrupt office holders. If the Republicans cannot find the way, perhaps another party will come along that can.

The author of said letter was some fellow named Steven Greenberg in some town called Fiskdale, wherever that is.

I found the article There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says on wired.com.

“We’re getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says,” Wyden tells Danger Room in an interview in his Senate office. “When you’ve got that kind of a gap, you’re going to have a problem on your hands.”

What Senator Ron Wyden is saying is that there is a law of the land that you are obligated to follow, but you cannot be told what it is.  It makes me wonder who is actually running this government. I am very unhappy to hear that this sort of thing continues under the Obama administration.  I was very naive to believe that getting rid of George W. Bush would put an end to this.