Daniel Patrick Welch

Writer, singer, linguist and activist Daniel Patrick Welch lives and writes in Salem,Massachusetts, with his wife, Julia. Together they run The Greenhouse School.

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31 July 2004
Empty Platform, Empty Town
Daniel Patrick Welch
The hype and hysteria reached even the sleepy North Shore of Boston. In the weeks leading up to the summer's seminal event in The Big City, local police...
29 June 2004
Good for Business, Bad for the People
Daniel Patrick Welch
It's funny. I'd seen all this stuff before--I mean it isn't as if there was anything really new here for anyone who's been paying attention for the past few...
18 May 2004
Impeach the SOB, Damn the Republicans-Full Speed Ahead!
Daniel Patrick Welch
It's time to stop beating around this Bush and start beating up on him--but good. There is no set of humanitarian or democratic principles by which this...
30 March 2004
When Good Men Don't Do Nothing
Daniel Patrick Welch
Perhaps, after all these years, Edmund Burke may have got it wrong: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is not, as the wise Englishman once opined,...
22 March 2004
With all deliberate stupidity: US self-isolation makes Iraq a virtual non-issue in the elections so far
Daniel Patrick Welch
The king is dead--long live the king! Okay, so the old lefty saw about it-doesn't-matter-who-gets-elected-they're-all-the-same-anyway might have less punch...
22 February 2004
The Wrong Side of History
Daniel Patrick Welch
We were all lied to. We're used to it. If Westmoreland's body counts and Watergate and Iran Contra and the Savings and Loan and the first Gulf War didn't teach...

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