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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White Random House October 2016 In Ronald C. White's magisterial biography of Ulysses S. Grant, he quotes the following from President Grant's first inaugural address on March 4, 1869: "All laws will be faithfully executed,
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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving in Washington this week to meet with President Donald Trump and the press full of headlines about turmoil at the National Security Council, the president faces some big decisions. Among them:
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The practiced politicians in the Massachusetts House and Senate, working under cover of a dull rules debate and a national political spectacle, recently passed whopping pay increases for themselves and other elected officeholders and members of the judiciary. The raises put some of these folks at the very top levels
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If you've done something really bad recently and you're looking for penance to atone, try watching Elizabeth Warren's speech about Jeff Sessions on the floor of the United States Senate. But don't stop after 50 minutes and 24 seconds on YouTube. Once
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Mr. President: Supporting, as we do, the great majority of the policy initiatives that you and your administration are pursuing, we nevertheless have a word of advice: Stop talking mindlessly; just act. Can't one or more of your key advisors persuade you to simply shut up for a
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A New York-based FBI agent who played a leading role in a string of recent insider trading prosecutions is under criminal investigation for what federal prosecutors, in a recent court filing, call "unquestionable misconduct by an agent of the Government … improper and inexcusable." It's the sort
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Let's play a little game. I'm going to give you quotations from published statements that have appeared since President Donald Trump signed the travel-ban executive order on Friday, January 27.
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Looking back on this week, I am so proud to be a Bostonian — and to be your Mayor. On Friday, January 27, President Donald Trump made good on his divisive campaign rhetoric, and signed a series of executive orders that are designed to promote American isolation, intolerance and fear. Boston
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