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Everyday Americans Just Schooled Governor Dan Malloy
I almost feel bad for Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy. The key word here, obviously, is almost.
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Boston Globe As Arbiter of Republicanism? Not the Real Diehl
Is there anything odder than The Boston Globe criticizing a Republican candidate for not being Republican enough? That's where Geoff Diehl finds himself today. The Republican state representative from Whitman running for U.S. Senate was outed Wednesday as having been a registered Democrat from 1996 through at
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A Deval Patrick Presidential Run in 2020 A Gift for the GOP
More than anyone else, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick would bring much more harmony to Republicans than to the masses should he formally announce a 2020 presidential candidacy. And more so than Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Patrick is still today's marquee progressive. A gift for the GOP. Patrick
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‘Crossing Point’: A Tour de Force of the Revolution and America’s Littlest Colony
When you hear "American Revolution," do you think Rhode Island? You should, as James Glickman's marvelous and surprising novel Crossing Point makes clear. The book tells the story of leading men and women in Rhode Island who played a significant role in the War for Independence.
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Oscars 2018 Prove That Liberals Are Ruining Everything – Even The Movies
Hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. Synonym: Hollywood
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Ending the Obsession With Race
"The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect."— Daniel Patrick Moynihan By the time Daniel Patrick Moynihan penned a famous memo to President Richard Nixon in 1970 he had been in the forefront of authoring or sponsoring nearly
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Corruption Cases Fit Pattern of Prosecutorial Overreach
One way to make sense of the onslaught of political corruption investigations and prosecutions in recent years is to understand it as our legal system trying to draw the line between political misbehavior that is merely shady and that which is outright criminal. Instead of looking at each of these
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Is There A Middle Ground on Guns That Makes Sense?
After the mass shooting two weeks ago that killed 17 at a high school in Parkland, Florida, gun advocate Chris Waltz said the murderer's weapon, a semi-automatic rifle, was not to blame. "It's not a rifle problem," he said in a recent Associated Press
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