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Joseph Rosenbloom

Joseph Rosenbloom is a freelance writer based in Newton, Mass.

Recent Articles

Richardson's Handshake Gamble

Bill Richardson is hoping the near-celebrity status of the three Democratic frontrunners will keep them from exuding the same folksy charm and handshakes he's using to connect with New Hampshire voters.

Joseph RosenbloomJul 20, 2007

To a crowd of more than one hundred people gathered under towering oaks in the backyard of his house in Dover, N.H., on Monday afternoon, former mayor William Boc introduced Bill Richardson, who was there asking for their votes in the Democratic presidential primary.

Boc noted that house parties like the one he was hosting for Richardson adhere to a cherished New Hampshire tradition in which voters expect highly personal campaigning by the presidential candidates. "We want to talk to you in our backyards. We want to shake your hand, and we want to ask you some questions," Boc said.

Impeachment, Vermont Style

Joseph RosenbloomApr 25, 2006

A. Jeffry Taylor is a 62-year-old lawyer and Democratic activist in Rutland, Vermont. As a young lawyer in the Los Angeles office of the Justice Department, he prosecuted antitrust cases during the Watergate era. The corruption he witnessed firsthand within the Nixon administration (a high-ranking Justice official once told him not to pursue a case, he recalls, because the suspects were “friends of the President, and we don't sue friends of the President. Are you dumb?”) gnaws at him still. His blood is boiling now because of what he regards as another President's unlawful conduct -- namely, what he regards as President George W. Bush's flagrant violations of the Constitution's due-process guarantees.

The Unique Brutality of Texas

Joseph RosenbloomJun 14, 2005

Gathering dust in Texas Governor Rick Perry's inbox is a clemency petition from Joe Lee Guy, a death-row inmate. The petition declares that "the integrity of Guy's capital trial was severely compromised." Considering how horrendously the wheels of Texas justice turned for Guy, the petition's claim seems, if anything, understated.

In 1994, Guy was sentenced to death for his role, the year before, in the robbery of a grocery store and the murder of its proprietor, Larry Howell. Guy was the unarmed lookout for two other men, Ronald Springer and Thomas Howard. Springer supplied the .22-caliber pistol that Howard used to shoot Howell. Springer and Howard received life sentences.

The New Anti-War Protesters

Joseph RosenbloomOct 28, 2004

SANDWICH, N.H. -- By the end of last week, Maggie Porter's brick collection totaled 1,099 -- and counting.

The bricks are meant to depict the coffins that the United States has been transporting to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware since the Iraq War began. Each brick is wrapped in a miniature American flag and labeled with the name of a serviceman or woman who has died in the war.

The Unique Brutality of Texas

Joseph RosenbloomJun 18, 2004

Gathering dust in Texas Governor Rick Perry's inbox is a clemency petition from Joe Lee Guy, a death-row inmate. The petition declares that "the integrity of Guy's capital trial was severely compromised." Considering how horrendously the wheels of Texas justice turned for Guy, the petition's claim seems, if anything, understated.

In 1994, Guy was sentenced to death for his role, the year before, in the robbery of a grocery store and the murder of its proprietor, Larry Howell. Guy was the unarmed lookout for two other men, Ronald Springer and Thomas Howard. Springer supplied the .22-caliber pistol that Howard used to shoot Howell. Springer and Howard received life sentences.

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