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Charles Krauthammer, R.I.P.
There are a handful of television commentators who do more than fill space with what they say. A smaller number still make you sit up and take notice when they speak. And then there was Charles Krauthammer.
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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Sales Taxes on Out-of-State Internet Purchases Has Some Massachusetts Officials Salivating
By Colin A. Young and Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Siding with South Dakota, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states should be able to require online retailers to collect and remit state sales taxes, a decision with wide-ranging implications for state finances across the country and
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High Court’s Decision on Millionaires Tax Buys Time – But Massachusetts Needs A New Game Plan
The people of Massachusetts have dodged a missile on a technicality. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that a referendum asking voters to approve a 4-percentage-point income tax surcharge on incomes of $1 million or more violates the state's constitution because it links three items that aren&
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A Father’s Ten Commandments
Happy Fathers' Day. Get back to work. Even on this day, you are on the clock. Your children are watching and listening.
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Gaza-Jerusalem Juxtaposition Tells a Story About Limits
The stark juxtaposition of the celebratory opening of America's new embassy to Israel in Jerusalem and deadly Palestinian riots in Gaza has led some to conclude that one has something to do with the other. As New York Times columnist Max Fisher put it in a tweet, "
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Anti-Trump Massachusetts Senate Resolution Is Also Anti-American
Trump Derangement Syndrome is in full force on Beacon Hill, as can be seen in an outrageous resolution put forward by a state senator running for Congress. The resolution calls on federal representatives and senators from Massachusetts to try to get Congress to limit the authority of the president of
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Want To Empower Parents in Public Education? Here Are the Bureaucracies That Have To Go
We are regularly told what the public or Congress or schools should do to increase school safety and prevent more school shootings. We even have a former U.S. Secretary of Education (Arne Duncan) suggesting that high school students not attend school until schools have been made safer for them.
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What Would Einstein Say About Climate Change?
There is no doubt that the Earth's temperature is rising. Temperatures measured on land and at sea since 1880 show that the Earth's globally averaged surface temperature in 2016 was 0.94 degrees Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 20thcentury average. This finding comes
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