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We’ve Lost That Christmas Feelin’ …Here’s One Way To Get It Back
One of the biggest problems we have in our society has little to do with politics. It has more to do with culture. We are losing our sense of the sacred.
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A Wall and All That Matters
It once seemed self-evident that if a thing is valuable, it is worth protecting. Conversely, if a thing is deemed worthless, it's tossed away with nary a thought. But now, at this time in American history, as a caravan of apparent asylum-seekers has finished passing through Mexico (not
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Corporate Credit: Doubtful That It’s Different This Time
Life mimics nature — it is cyclical. The amplitudes and lengths of the cycles vary, but human behavior remains resolutely cyclical, despite the evident errors that past cycles produced. One might think that people would modify their behavior enough to avoid past mistakes, but it is apparently built into human nature
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Operation Change-the-Subject:Seth Moulton Endorses ‘Green New Deal’
Did you ever doubt that U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) would endorse the so-called "Green New Deal"? Even if you don't know what the Green New Deal is – did you ever think he might not be all for it?
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YMCA Marijuana Posting Got It Mostly Right
Are potheads now a protected class? That seems to be the gist of reaction to a notice posted recently at several locations of the YMCA of Greater Springfield.
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Hanukkah With The Donald
There are those times in one's public life when the joy of the moment transcends all, to the point where there is nowhere you'd rather be at that time and place. Such as …
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Blame Nixon, McCain, Bush for Trump Campaign Finance Trouble
President Donald Trump has been trying to blame the Democrats for the effort by federal prosecutors to depict payoffs to two women as campaign finance violations. If only it were that simple.
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Republicans on Beacon Hill Should Take Roll-Call-Votes Pledge, and Challenge Democrats To Do the Same
If things are going to get better in Massachusetts, it starts with bad ideas having a name on them. Or, when it comes to Beacon Hill, names. The recent push by several left-of-center incoming state legislators for roll call votes in the Massachusetts Legislature is a breath of fresh air,
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