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Three Things Andrew Cuomo Should Have Resigned Over Before Now

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he is planning to resign in a couple of weeks in the wake of a report finding that he sexually harassed 11 women. His grabby, smutty, demeaning behavior with subordinates (as described in the New York Attorney General's report, and essentially

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Race? Sexuality? ‘Equity’?No More Accelerated Math?Nothing To See Here In Milton, Move Along

This past April, NewBostonPost's Tom Joyce reported on a highly controversial 91-question survey of students at Milton's public high school and middle school that probed their feelings about race and human sexuality. Mr. Joyce's reporting included information about how high school students were essentially

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When’s The Last Time You Heard A Graduation Speech Worth Listening To?

The salutatorian walked to the podium, she being the first of a handful of speakers at the college graduation. I have heard these student speeches before, often filled with prideful recognition – "look what we accomplished" – or ideology stemmed from relevant trends, and not from a well-formed conscience. But,

News

Do People With Down Syndrome Have A Right To Exist?

We were born the same year, our mothers old friends. Jenny and I were first friends. They didn't call them "playdates" back then, but the two of us hung out a lot as tykes — had tea parties and made typical pre-school messes while our moms sipped

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The Party of Lincoln

For several decades, the progressive wing of the Republican Party has misrepresented the legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. In the 1960s, such politicians were accurately dubbed "Rockefeller Republicans," named for liberal New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Since conservatives triumphed in the GOP during the Reagan Era, liberals shied

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Six Wrong Things About the Massachusetts GOP Flap Over Jim Lyons and Same-Sex-Couple Adoption

Massachusetts Republicans lost control of the state House of Representatives in 1948 because they managed to get themselves seen as taking an anti-Catholic position on birth control. Now, many Republicans in the state are demanding that a Catholic chairman of the party disavow Catholic teaching about marriage and children or

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Black Pastor Demolishes Critical Race Theory In New Book – Fault Lines

Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie Baucham Salem Books 270 pages April 2021 If you do not know what Critical Race Theory is, you better learn about it fast. This Marxian theory of race that divides all people into either oppressor or

Culture

Screens Are Damaging Our Kids – Childhood 2.0 Shows Us How

There's been a flurry of films in the past few years about kids and the screen-based life they now live. There was Screenagers in 2016, Like in 2018, The Social Dilemma in 2020, and now Childhood 2.0. This likely isn't an exhaustive list, either, and