News
How To Kill Cape Cod for Kids
Someday soon on Cape Cod it may be legal to buy an edible gummy bear laced with marijuana but illegal to buy a helium balloon. Something has gone wrong.
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Commentary
We’ve Lost That Christmas Feelin’ …Here’s One Way To Get It Back
One of the biggest problems we have in our society has little to do with politics. It has more to do with culture. We are losing our sense of the sacred.
Commentary
Operation Change-the-Subject:Seth Moulton Endorses ‘Green New Deal’
Did you ever doubt that U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) would endorse the so-called "Green New Deal"? Even if you don't know what the Green New Deal is – did you ever think he might not be all for it?
Commentary
YMCA Marijuana Posting Got It Mostly Right
Are potheads now a protected class? That seems to be the gist of reaction to a notice posted recently at several locations of the YMCA of Greater Springfield.
News
Republicans on Beacon Hill Should Take Roll-Call-Votes Pledge, and Challenge Democrats To Do the Same
If things are going to get better in Massachusetts, it starts with bad ideas having a name on them. Or, when it comes to Beacon Hill, names. The recent push by several left-of-center incoming state legislators for roll call votes in the Massachusetts Legislature is a breath of fresh air,
Culture
Fire Chief Wins $1.2 Million Case Against Atlanta for Firing Him for Religious Beliefs
Kelvin Cochran grew up in Louisiana with one goal in life: to become a firefighter. He realized that dream in 1981 in his native Shreveport. He rose through the ranks, and in 1999 became the fire chief there, the first African-American to serve in that capacity. In 2008, he was
Commentary
Massachusetts Needs Independent Probe of Judges
Maybe ICE agents should start showing up at Massachusetts courts undercover. They could look and act like someone who poses no legal threat to illegal aliens. Perhaps they could pose as drug dealers or gang members … or maybe wear a black robe. The latest outrage is that a district court
Commentary
Chief Justice Roberts’s Trump Rebuke A Dead Letter
When he was running for president U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said he wouldn't have appointed John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court. If that's so, maybe he had the right idea.