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If Massachusetts someday legalizes prostitution, will the mayor of one of its cities line up to be the first customer at a brothel? It's not the same as marijuana, but it's not completely different, either. Both are destructive things that hurt people who partake of them.
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New Boston Post recently reported comments by the new president of the University of New Hampshire dismissing concerns about ideological bias on university campuses. "I think that people make a little bit more of this than it really is," James W. Dean Jr. is reported to have said
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Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism. Great Britain's exit from the European Union. Donald Trump's attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling in American politics. Even public marches by avowed
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Seals are cute and fun to watch. They're also a nuisance on Cape Cod, where tens of thousands of them are eating fish that might otherwise be caught by Cape fishermen and drawing great white sharks that are occasionally attacking swimmers at Cape beaches. A man was seriously
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Dan Crenshaw, the maligned American hero and Republican congressman-elect, followed up his appearance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend with a column in The Washington Post that is must-reading for political commentators everywhere. Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost his right eye to an improvised explosive device in
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Pete Davidson's apology to Texas Republican Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw on Saturday Night Live – and Crenshaw's acceptance of it – ought to become a watershed moment in American culture. On Saturday, November 3, three days before the recent election, Davidson, a comedian, poked fun at Crenshaw's
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Two-term U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin, the only Republican member of Congress in New England, got about 2,000 more votes than his nearest competitor, a Democrat, on election day last week. So he won re-election, right?
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The guilty plea of a former lawyer for the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, on Augist 21 was reportedly motivated in part by Cohen's 83-year-old father, who supposedly told his son that he didn't "survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Mr. Trump."
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