VOL. 116 - NO. 4 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 27, 2012 $.30 A COPY Do You Remember ..... South Carolina Upstages Romney 11½ Thatcher Street, North End, Boston Handing Gingrich Double Digit Victory before the Famous by Sal Giarratani The Romney train has “Pizza Regina” been derailed twice already. It now appears that Rick Santorum and not Romney actually won the Iowa Cau- cus. Add to that the double digit win by Gingrich in South Carolina where the former Speaker won 40 per- cent of the vote to Romney’s 28 percent. Florida now is a must win for Romney. He must carry the state and carry it in good numbers. The Sunshine State is the first big market diverse Mitt Romney state to hold a primary. Newt Gingrich There are several voting The race for the Republi- blocs here, who will win the dent Obama but many others can presidential nomination very large Latino vote, espe- have a big problem with took a right wing turn in the cially in the Miami area Romney’s ideology or lack of South Carolina primary this where Cuban Americans such. Where does Romney past Saturday. It had ap- are usually conservative stand on various issues peared as little as two weeks Republicans in their poli- seems too often to depend on ago that Mitt Romney would tics? Not to be forgotten is the race he is in? Is he a real carry the day in this south- the older vote as Florida has conservative with core val- ern presidential primary. become America’s retire- ues or is he a moderate will- However, in the week pre- ment state for many from ing to move left or right to ceding the election, Newt the Northeast. From the defeat an opponent? Gingrich appeared to be mak- Keys to Jacksonville, this However, Gingrich has his ing strong and steady gains could be a make or break wives problem. He handled in the polls after two good state for whether Romney or the ABC News and its inter- showings in recent days. Gingrich. Eventually this view of Mrs. Gingrich #3 Many have said the chal- will become a two-man race. but this issue promises to lenge facing Romney is he Santorum doesn’t have the return over and over again. needs to stop running like a finances to stay in this race Meanwhile, now many candidate trying not to lose for the long haul. If Gingrich Republicans are beginning News Briefs and start running like a can- picks up his evangelical con- to look around at a short list by Sal Giarratani didate who wants to win. servative vote, Romney just of possible Republican can- Gingrich right now has mo- might not make it to the didates for vice president. mentum and whether he convention podium to de- High on that list is Governor can keep the big mouth go- liver his acceptance speech. Chris Christe of New Jersey. I Wish Pat Buchanan Was on the ing into the Florida Primary Republicans are caught Next stop Florida, all aboard Presidential Ballot this Year on January 31 is yet to be between a rock and a hard as we move toward the Personally, I am afraid that President Obama seen. Romney on the other place. Many in the party see conclusion of the Republi- could get re-elected by default and the fault is all hand appears to have slipped Romney as the most elect- can nomination campaign those “Dead Men Walking” seeking to replace in voter confidence. able candidate to face Presi- period. him next November. If Romney or Gingrich is their best shot, the Obama crowd must be smiling. The Republicans needed a principled conservative THANKS, BUT NO THANKS, Mr. President this year to counter Obama’s leftward taking of by Sal Giarratani America into the land of European social Playoffs MVP Tim Thomas why anyone would not want for standing up for his personal welfarism. The Democrats have long stopped be- decided against showing up ‘to shake the hand of the man principles about what govern- ing a centrist broad-based political party and have at the White House with the who got bin Laden.” Lastly, ment should or should not be seemingly turned into the British Labor Party. rest of team to meet with Boston Globe sports writer doing. This wasn’t an act of civil If ever there was a year for Pat Buchanan to the president at a White Kevin Paul Dupont wrote, disobedience; this was Thomas run for president, this is it. Everything he warned House ceremony honoring Shabby. Immature. Unpro- deciding where or where not to us about 20 years ago at the Republican National the team. Thomas, one of fessional. Self-centered. go. He wasn’t personally dissing Convention in Houston has come to pass. He two Americans on the team Bush league. Need I go on?” President Obama but rather warned of the coming cultural war and was ridi- decided to stay home and it He and the others men- the direction our federal gov- culed by liberals for spreading racist panic across was his right to do so. He tioned need not go on, they ernment and its leaders, the country. The GOP went with President George didn’t have to justify the have a right to their opin- Democrat and Republican H.W. Bush that year unwilling to listen to Pat’s choice he made to anyone ions. I have a right to mine. alike, are taking us. warnings of impending doom. criticizing his decision. You have a right to yours. Tim Thomas is an Ameri- Buchanan didn’t run, Bush did and Bill Clinton Current TV’s Keith Lastly, Tim Thomas has a can who loves his country beat him in November 1992. Things that Olbermann called him a right to his. He exercised his and took his stand for it Buchanan warned us of have come to pass. “fool” on twitter. Former state right as a free citizen. Should by missing the White House Multiculturalism and diversity have weakened Democrat Party chair Phil be end of story but many in ceremony. He knew he us as a nation. Today we have a president will- Johnson said, “My advice to the liberal media are blast- would be attacked for it but (Continued on Page 10) him is to stick to hockey.” ing him for the choice and took it nevertheless. We Another party spokesman keeping this non-story alive. should be praising him for Kevin Franck questioned I congratulate Tim Thomas his stand not bashing it. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, JANUARY 27, 2012 Res Publica by David Trumbull Now That’s an Idea! Every year since Health Care and COMMODUS, 1991 the Pioneer Insurance — Since The Bastard of the Roman Empire Institute has con- World War II, the fed- ducted a “citizens’ eral government has We all know by this time birth to serpents. The twin and were lucky to get off idea contest” that expanded its role in fi- that Roman emperors often brother, named Antoninus, without being executed. This seeks out and re- nancing and regulat- adopted sons as successors died at the age of four, but as is the nature of the person wards the most inno- ing health care deliv- and often honored those for Commodus, even from that was destined to become vative public policy ery and insurance. sons by bestowing their own early childhood he was cruel, the eighteenth ruler of the ideas. The 2012 com- Are there more effec- names upon them, or at dishonorable, debauched, and Roman Empire. petition will focus on tive ways to insure times even the names of appeared to have inherited Commodus had accompa- federal programs and care for Ameri- illustrious ancestors. We all the vices of his mother. nied his father on two expe- that can be devolved cans through state are minded that these were At the age of twelve his cruel ditions to Germany during to the states — with benefits policy? still pagan times in old and brutal nature really sur- the wars against the bar- like cost savings, more effec- Education — Since its Rome, and ancestor worship faced when he ordered that baric tribes. He ascended the tive delivery of services, or establishment in 1979, the was a recognized part of their his bath keeper be cast into throne as a joint ruler with innovation as a result. U.S. Department of Educa- religion. The eighteenth the furnace because the bath his father and together they Sample topics include: tion has gained control over emperor of the Roman world, water was not hot enough. led the second expedition. Regulations — Are there reporting, spending, behav- and the one that now occu- Fortunately, for the bath Marcus Aurelius died while federal regulations that can ior, academic content, test- pies our attention was popu- keeper, a compassionate hostilities were still going on be devolved to the states, ing, special education, and larly called Commodus or slave in charge of the fur- and notwithstanding the fact resulting in job creation or more. Are there better Commodus Antoninus. nace, burned a sheep-skin that the opposing forces increased economic vitality? ways to achieve common Eventually he bore the full instead, and the resulting were at the point of complete Urban Redevelopment — goals at the state and local title of Commodus Lucius stench satisfied Commodus subjugation.