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The Agony and Defeat of Entertainment and Sports Political Network
"We live in a political world Everything is hers or his Climb into the frame and shout God's name But you're never sure what it is" — Bob Dylan, "Political World"
James P. Freeman
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Baker and Trump Actually Share One Attribute: ‘Nixonian Habits’
In his marvelously insightful book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg recalls the 1960 presidential contest when the National Review founder saw then-candidate Richard Nixon as "less the leader of the GOP than as the 'amalgamator' of
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This Summer, Progressive Culture Has Trumped Conservative Politics
"Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy." ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
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Why Conservatives Should Watch More MTV
Twenty-five years ago, when MTV played mostly videos, defeated presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan delivered his "Culture War" speech before the Republican National Convention on August 17 at the Houston Astrodome, where he feared for the "soul of America." Twenty-five years later, when conservatives have ceded
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Boston Stood for Suppression of Free Speech and Free Press
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme
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How Geoff Diehl’s Conservative Crusade Will Lead to the U.S. Senate
He seems nearly uninterested, certainly unmoved, by the potential link to a lineage of rich Massachusetts political history. He would be the first sitting state representative to win election to the U.S. Senate since Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. upset popular Democrat governor James M. Curley in 1936. He
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When Boston Progressives Abandoned Diversity
Boston voters may be forgiven for not noticing a conspicuous absence on their ballots in the municipal election this fall. Actually, it's been absent for over a century, a forgotten remnant of crooked logic from the first Progressive Era. Nowhere on the ballot lists any party affiliation associated
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Will Trump Use The Espionage Act Against Journalists?
"Some of these people [columnists and commentators] have been known to make up, or willfully distort, information to support their political preferences." — Jody Powell, 1984, The Other Side of the Story