Chip Faulkner Funeral Service Thursday, May 30

Chip Faulkner Funeral Service Thursday, May 30

A wake and funeral service are scheduled for Thursday for Chip Faulkner, longtime taxpayer advocate with Citizens for Limited Taxation.

Faulkner, 73, died Friday, May 24, at a hospice in Worcester after a 15-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

The Daniel Ortega Democrats — Not Just Sanders
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The Daniel Ortega Democrats — Not Just Sanders

Ira Stoll

Give the New York Times credit for publishing, earlier this month, a long investigative piece about the strange enthusiasm of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for the communist strongman Daniel Ortega, who ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s and is in power there again today.

It bears remembering, though, that the group of Democratic presidential candidates who might be described as Ortega groupies extends well beyond the self-described socialist senator from Vermont.

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