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Give the New York Times credit for publishing, earlier this month, a long investigative piece about the strange enthusiasm of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for the communist strongman Daniel Ortega, who ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s and is in power there again today. It bears remembering, though, that the
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U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi received the 2019 Profile in Courage award at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Sunday, May 19. She was praised "for putting the national interest above her party's interest." Whatever she did or did
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In the final two readings of a recent Saturday's Torah portion (Acharei Mos (after the death)), G-d told the Hebrews that incest, bestiality, and homosexuality were prohibited sexual activities and that the Canaanite nations defiled themselves by engaging in these forbidden and abominable practices. Refraining from engaging in
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Joe Biden still has the big smile. He's physically smaller, the same way that Bill Clinton is these days, the way that it's hard to tell whether it's because he's in better shape, or he's shrunken with age, or it&
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What happens when you establish a 15-member commission whose goal is to represent various geographical, political, and demographic backgrounds? If you're in Massachusetts, you appoint a group that tries to represent everyone. Everyone, that is, except Republicans.
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President Donald Trump calls the indictment of President Barack Obama's White House counsel Gregory Craig "a really big story." That it is, but probably not precisely in the way that Trump means it.
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THE SETTING These are difficult times that should challenge us all, with our outlook, and hope, e'en our spirits subdued From the ceaseless, relentless, unpleasant campaigning of spoiled adult children with behavior quite crude, As if they are hostages captive to shock and sheer hatred, they make a
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"Many a true word is spoken in jest." The proverb dates back to Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Cook's Tale" from his Canterbury Tales. It suggests that truthfulness frequently surfaces through comedic lines. Now, if there's anyone in America who should avoid
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