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Last week, my son's sixth-grade Spanish class held an end-of-the-year Hispanic food fiesta. Everyone was asked to bring something, and so I took the opportunity to pick up homemade ice cream and fruit bars from La Rosita, a local neveria (loosely translated as "ice cream shop"
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Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying, at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that Americans had adopted "a Republic, if you can keep it." It took almost 230 years, but we are doing our best to throw our Republic away. In November 2016, America might
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The phone has been ringing off the hook at Judge Aaron Persky's chambers at the Santa Clara County court for the past several days. "Tell your judge he can go to hell, and I hope his kids get raped and he rots in hell," said one
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"Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?" — U2, "One" Like a marauding, unrepentant thief in the night, Romneycare, turning 10 this month, continues, unabated, its stealthy larceny and stony legacy. It is the giant wrecking ball of public policy that is smashing into
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During the past decade, Bill Weld has endorsed Republicans and Democrats for elective office. Now he is running as neither a Republican nor a Democrat, but as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. As recently as the 2014 election cycle, the former Massachusetts governor stirred controversy when he
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The Bay State's Secretary of Education and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education are planning to review the Bay State's teacher licensing regulations and tests. About time! Lots of changes need to be made, based on what we know from good research. The 2008
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Probably the most famous example of nanny state intervention in consumer choices was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to ban the sale of oversize sugary drinks. After a court overturned the ban, one state legislator introduced a bill that would impose a similar ban on drinks sold to consumers
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Despite the Obama administration's insistence that its climate change policy accounts for jobs and economic growth, the president's actions, once again, belie his lofty rhetoric. In a new study published by the Manhattan Institute, economist and environmental expert Oren Cass concludes that "President Obama'
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