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Recent advances in communications technology have made it easier than ever for speakers to spread their messages and for listeners to find the content they are after. I emailed the final draft of this column to the NewBostonPost yesterday, and today it might be read by someone on the opposite
Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a challenge by an order of Catholic nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, to a federal regulation implementing the Affordable Care Act's (a.k.a Obamacare's) contraception mandate. Is the Little Sisters' case likely to
Massachusetts
In this increasingly permissive age, we are told that drug abuse is a victimless crime. The Wikipedia entry for "victimless crime" includes "recreational drug use." In July, President Obama commuted the sentences of nearly four dozen men and women convicted of selling drugs (mainly crack or
terrorism
Disgusting is an insufficient word to describe the cruel tyranny that exists in the swathes of Iraq and Syria controlled by the Islamic State. A report by a Syrian human rights group released Oct. 7 catalogues more than 10,000 executions by ISIS in those two countries over the past
Democrat
Brace yourselves: Attorneys at America's largest law firms are far to the left of the American political center. That's the unsurprising news from a study released by a trio of political scientists, who reviewed decades' worth of data on political contributions by hundreds of thousands
Massachusetts
Harkening back to the days when Massachusetts was known derisively as "Taxachusetts," a liberal coalition is pushing to amend the state constitution to impose a 9 percent tax on incomes above $1 million. The amendment would override the state constitution's current prohibition on graduated income taxes.
Commentary
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's denial of Tom Brady's appeal from his Deflategate suspension might never become a regular topic of study in our nation's law schools. And whether Tom Brady takes the Patriots' first snap this season won't affect the legal