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Scott Brown Investigated for Telling Samoans They Look Beautiful

Scott Brown, the former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and current U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, said the U.S. Department of State formally investigated him after fielding complaints about comments Brown made during a party in Apia, the capital of Samoa. Brown says he told attendees

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Free Speech Rally Organizer Sues Boston Mayor Marty Walsh

The Lowell resident says the Boston mayor's remarks before the Free Speech Rally on Boston Common in August slandered him and other organizers as racist hatemongers, and led to his being harassed and losing his job.

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$3 Million Will Get You Idyllic Home on Cuttyhunk

The tiny island about 15 miles southeast of Cape Cod has somewhere around 28 year-round residents — but a lot more during the summer.

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Is There Room in Feminism for Pro-Israel and Pro-Life Views?

A freshman at Harvard College who identifies herself as a feminist questions whether the new "intersectionality" makes sense — particularly if it leads feminists to read out of their movement supporters of feminism who also support the State of Israel or unborn babies.

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‘Abortion Bonds’ Giving Planned Parenthood Access To Government Loans To Help Build Abortion Clinics

Federal tax dollars can't be spent on abortions (except in the cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother) because of the Hyde Amendment, but Planned Parenthood has used a loophole in federal law to get access to tax-free government bonds to help build facilities.

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Goodbye Jefferson Davis, Hello Barack Obama for Mississippi Elementary School

School officials at predominantly black Davis IB Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi have decided to rename the school after Barack Obama, the former president of the United States. The current name honors Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War; the "IB" stands

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Anti-Columbus Attacks Have Roots in Marxism and Ku Klux Klan

Karl Marx didn't like Christopher Columbus because he imagined him to be the person who ushered in capitalism in the New World. The Ku Klux Klan didn't like Columbus because he was a Catholic, notes New Boston Post founding editor-in-chief Jennifer Braceras.

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Pro-Life Student President in Ireland Under Attack

Some students at University College Dublin want to remove the student president because she yanked information about getting abortions in England from a student handbook. Abortion is illegal in the Republic of Ireland, where the constitution forbids it, but a referendum is expected next year on a measure to repeal