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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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U.S. Senator Jeff Flake was just doing his job when he called for a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into accusations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh last week but "has an opportunity to do something really special" if he votes against Kavanaugh on the
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A biological male who identifies as a woman asked the Massachusetts Attorney General's office to force a female-oriented spa on the South Shore to give him a bikini wax and other beauty services under the state's gender identity law. The transgender biological male said in the
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A former longtime Boston Red Sox play-by-play television broadcaster is planning to call the team's nationally televised game with the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on Saturday. Don Orsillo was fired from NESN in 2015 by the Red Sox in favor of current commentator Dave O'
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A committee at one of the undergraduate dormitories at Harvard College is considering whether to continue running "Drag Night." Adams House, which includes sophomores, juniors, and seniors, has been running the yearly event since 1980, when a student reported being attacked by other students because he was a
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Brett Kavanaugh is no Clarence Thomas. Kavanaugh denied allegations of sexual misconduct in forceful terms during an interview on Fox News on Monday night. But while Thomas in 1991 memorably denounced the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and its staff for digging up "sleaze" and "dirt"
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The English Catholic writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) saw all attacks on the family as attacks also on civilization, writes Dale Ahlquist in Crisis Magazine. Among these attacks, he said, are divorce, contraception, and homosexuality.
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A provocative new ad from opponents of the so-called Bathroom Bill shows a teen-age girl entering a women's locker room just after a shady-looking man in a hooded sweatshirt goes in and hides in a bathroom stall. The girl goes to a locker and starts to unbutton her
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The Cleveland Browns went 0-16 in 2017, and hadn't won a game since December 24, 2016. But on Thursday night, September 20, 2018, the Browns beat the New York Jets, 21-17, at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland.