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Looking for Trumpism in all the Wrong Places
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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Standing Up for Our Values
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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WASP Nominee for Supreme Court Would Restore Diversity
For most of its history, the United States Supreme Court has been composed of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. True, there was the occasional Catholic, like 19th century Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, forever tainted by his notorious Dred Scott decision; or early 20th century Chief Justice Edward White. Eventually there was
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Are You A Boy? No? Would You Like To Be One? Then You Can Be A Boy Scout
Memo to the Boy Scouts: You will never go far enough.
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Who Should Be In Charge of the U.S. Department of Education and Why?
Many parents have been tweeting to President Donald Trump to withdraw his support for charter school champion Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education and to propose a different kind of nominee for the U.S. Department of Education. The problem for these parents is not that both DeVos and the
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Baker’s State of the State Speech: Compromise Sorely Needed in Massachusetts
Governor Charlie Baker in his State of the State Speech last week said: "Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results." Governor Baker unfortunately was not describing what really happens in the Commonwealth. His statement was one
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If Trump Is From Mars, His Enemies Are From Pluto
If you want to get an idea of how loony-tunes some opponents of President Donald Trump's temporary ban on visitors from several Muslim countries are, check out the exchange between two Trump critics on CNN on Sunday. CNN, always fair and balanced, featured four guests during a segment
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How Obama Caused the Trump Refugee Debacle
President Donald Trump is being widely (even by Dick Cheney) and at least in part justifiably criticized and condemned for his crackdown on the admission to America of refugees from certain foreign countries. If the goal is to make Americans safe from radical Islamic terrorism, the ban, it is argued
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