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Top 10: A conservative’s summer reading list
As Bay Staters escape from the realities of all things Trump and transgender this weekend to the refuge of beaches and barbecues…
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The appeal of Work Drugs
"Sailing away down to the keys Losing our rhythm to the ocean breeze" — "Third Wave" Close your eyes.…
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Will Massachusetts’ diverse economy blunt a looming recession?
With an overload of disparate data, headlines alarmingly assert that the economy is headed for a recession in 2016. Given the severity…
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Why Clinton will choose Deval Patrick as vice president
As "Bern Baby Bern" — like all good socialist-themed endeavors – slowly and inevitably finds itself reduced to a simmering ash…
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Massachusetts: In debt we trust
"When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty." — Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth (1758)…
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Will Boston resist New York’s progressive lurch?
"One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat." — Vincent J. Scully, Yale architectural historian…
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The joyful noise of Wild Nothing
"Dream and love Never wake up" — "Confirmation," 2010 Evoking a nostalgic yearning for youthful, carefree times, the joys…
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Michael Dukakis: The last Progressive
Beaming over the convention of the consonant caucus, the speaker uttered what would be the second most memorable line in the 1988…
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Will Trump learn from Romney’s mistakes?
It was bound to happen sooner or later — former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney regrettably waded into the treacherous currents of the 2016 presidential campaign
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New Hampshire’s results as predicted, explained and questioned
Here's a riddle: What happens when you get a curmudgeonly socialist and a snarly capitalist – two ideological polar opposites – each…
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Weather as entertainment
You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows "Subterranean Homesick Blues" — Bob Dylan WCVB-…
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Baker’s noble restoration of state government
"The Baker-Polito Administration Year in Review – 2016," released nearly a year after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker assumed the corner…
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The Year 2015 and the ‘Peril of Hope’
"It is right there Betwixt and between The orchard bare And the orchard green" — Robert Frost from "Peril of…
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The language of the Left
"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness" — George Orwell from "Politics and…
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No to Massachusetts ‘weed greed’
As Ohio goes, so should Massachusetts. On Nov. 3, Ohio voters — in every one of its 88 counties — overwhelmingly rejected Issue 3,…
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Patrick Kennedy and the politics of honesty
By any standard – the physical and metaphysical – former Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) should not be alive today considering the extreme…
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A Biden-Patrick ticket as a return to novelty
Speculation abounds these days that President Obama will endorse Vice President Joe Biden for president in 2016, with the caveat — are you ready? — that Biden pick former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick as his running mate and serve for only one term.
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Pilgrim Nuclear and the paradox of green energy
Green energy enthusiasts are fond of lecturing Americans about the need to turn to cleaner sources of power. But recent calls to…
