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As we close out 2016, and the Obama presidency, retrospectives will abound. Liberals will lament the close of the Obama "Hope and Change" era, and, to varying degrees, cower in fear over the coming Trump administration. But a review of what Obama supporters loved about his two terms
Thanksgiving
If you spend any time on social media, it is easy to see the divisions in our country, in our communities, in our families. Although every four years, emotions run high and partisan tempers flare, this year did seem different. I have had good friends literally suffer physically from their
Commentary
Through crisis comes opportunity. Politically, the country appears headed for the brink regardless of the outcome of this election. A Trump presidency presents the most immediate threat, in that his narcissism, boorishness, volatility, and incoherence could produce disaster from day one. ("President Assad, that great leader, said I have
Commentary
What's a conservative to do in November's election? The presidential election is nothing short of a 5-alarm dumpster fire. Trump's celebration of ignorance, added to his unworthy character and impulsive, volatile personality, disqualify him for many conservatives on numerous grounds. Hillary Clinton is, well,
Commentary
In yet another summer Friday document dump last week more information about Hillary Clinton's secretive email server, and the classified information stored on it, dribbled out to the public. And what did we learn? It now is quite clear that Clinton blatantly lied to the public when she
American
I am an American. That designation being insufficient for purposes of the diversity-accountants of the modern civil-rights movement, I am a straight, cis-gendered male of European ancestry, particularly Irish. Apparently, this means that I am the product of privilege. I am, in the sense that that I was born into
colleges
Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in its entirety. I have made my children listen to it many times. Although we all know the key lines, which will be played
Charlie Baker
Governor Charlie Baker recently broke new ground by making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered-owned businesses the beneficiaries of government set-asides. The new "supplier diversity" order means that in a few years, a certain percentage of contracts entered into by