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freedom
Among the most pressing questions we face as a civilization is the meaning of freedom and how it applies to our everyday lives: Is freedom merely the license to do as one pleases, or is it something more complex, an idea interconnected with virtue and responsibility? Can freedom exist in
Massachusetts
Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander about what he had accomplished with the recent re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In an op-ed in The Tennessean on Dec. 12, 2015, Senator Alexander
boston
If Boston is serious about urban renewal, it may want to bring back one of the now defunct policies of the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino: Broken Windows policing. Broken Windows theory holds that enforcing public order laws — such as laws against graffiti, trespassing, and illegal street vending — reduces both
Massachusetts
"One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat." — Vincent J. Scully, Yale architectural historian So was the thinking about the demolition of a Beaux Arts masterpiece, New York City's Pennsylvania Station in 1963, an act of progressive vandalism, from which
mexico
Let's look at the political angst over trade deficits. There cannot be a trade deficit in a true economic sense. Let's examine this. I buy more from my grocer than he buys from me. That means I have a trade deficit with my grocer. My grocer
Barack Obama
In 1959, Fidel Castro and his communist henchmen put a bullet through the head of freedom. Proclaiming the era of equality, they threw dissidents in jail or shot them, cracked down on free speech, closed their markets and seized private property. Thousands of Cubans fled to the liberty of the
terrorism
The attacks of March 22 in Brussels were shocking, but not surprising. They reinforced what many have known for years: Belgium has a serious problem with terrorism.
Pro-life
Historically, assisted suicide (aiding a person to take his or her own life) was prohibited by the common law in Canada, as in all common law jurisdictions. Indeed, at common law suicide resulted in forfeiture of all goods and chattels of the suicide victim to the state. A person who
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