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The words "fascism" and "fascist" are thrown around a lot these days. Most frequently we see these epithets in the blogs and tweets of so-called "progressives" (until recently called liberals, until they rebranded themselves, after realizing the word liberal had become associated with losers)
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I talked to one of me teens recently about the Roman concept of "bread and circuses," things leaders used to comfort and distract the masses. Bread came in the form of free wheat for Roman citizens, and circuses came in the form of the Colosseum in Rome and
Editorials
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and its Western allies, as well as the United Nations Security Council, demanded that Saddam Hussein withdraw from Kuwait. If he did not pull back from Kuwait, Iraq would be subject to economic sanctions and perhaps punitive war by a
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A federal jury in Boston recently convicted Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson in connection with conspiring to get their children into the University of Southern California. The story is more newsworthy for what it says about the corruption of our criminal justice system than for what it says about corruption
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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) brought out one of her worst pro-abortion talking points in the U.S. House chamber recently. Pressley attacked pro-life policies, as she has frequently done, by trying to label them as white supremacy.
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A made-in-the-mainstream-media squall is causing sports broadcaster Sean McDonough some heartache because he had a little fun with a Pakistani surname during a Boston Red Sox broadcast. Yet this one doesn't pass the old David Letterman test: Is this anything?
Editorials
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich to meet Adolf Hitler. There, Chamberlain, and ministers from other Western nations, signed the Munich Pact, handing over the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not even invited to the talks. The Munich Pact was England&
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In any healthy, well-functioning democracy, when things go terribly wrong, heads roll. Not literally, of course. People resign. The military leaders and government officials honorably take the responsibility for the disaster and resign. And if they don't resign, they are fired.
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