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Rush Limbaugh, R.I.P.
Rush Limbaugh was often at his best when the country's fortunes were at their worst. During the dark days of…
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Garrison Keillor Calls Himself Conservative, But Not Necessarily the Right-Wing Kind
The former host of A Prairie Home Companion says he misses card games, broadsheet newspapers, and pre-post-modern rock-'n-…
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Conservatism and the Culture
"Conservative thought and conservative intellectuals must be gaining ground or the liberals would not be constantly lecturing us on the meaning…
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How Should Conservatives Respond to Trump’s Nationalism?
Trump managed to tap into a conservative niche that has been neglected since Reagan. So how should the Right respond?…
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Barred from the bar for being conservative
Conservative drinkers be warned; sharing your right-of-center beliefs in Boston bars is now sufficient to get you thrown out. There…
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Conservative leaders mourn Phyllis Schlafly, recall her courage under fire
(CNSNews.com) – Conservative leaders across the country who knew her mourned the death of Eagle Forum founder, prolific author, attorney and political…
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Farm team conservatism
This has been a bad year for conservatives at the ballot box. Washington Republicans and their allies, enabled by chaos in the…
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Missing the point of conservatism and western culture
Pamela Constable's Washington Post reflection on her conservative Connecticut WASP parents has been making the rounds on the right-wing…
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2016: A Conservative Odyssey
With Donald Trump's rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, conservatives find themselves in an awkward position. For…
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A ‘bleeding-heart progressive’ reacts to a viral conservative blog
This article by Kyle S. Reyes has been shared by several of my conservative-leaning friends over the past couple of days.…
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Harvard faculty tilts decidedly left in political giving
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University faculty who made political donations at the federal level overwhelmingly contributed to Democrats or liberal organizations, a review of…
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Top 10: A conservative’s summer reading list
As Bay Staters escape from the realities of all things Trump and transgender this weekend to the refuge of beaches and barbecues…
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Dartmouth students demand end to coddling, focus on learning
HANOVER, N.H. – Alleging that Dartmouth College administrators have increasingly "assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters," students at the Ivy…
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House GOP gives election-year airing to IRS gripes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans gave an election-year airing to their complaints about Internal Revenue Service chief John Koskinen Tuesday, telling a GOP-…
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WATCH: Braceras talks Zuckerberg meeting at Facebook on WGBH’s ‘Greater Boston’
NewBostonPost Editor Jennifer C. Braceras stopped by WGBH's "Greater Boston" Monday evening to discuss last week's…
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Zuckerberg’s conservative battle: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Mark Zuckerberg and his massive social-media site Facebook have come under strong criticism for allegedly suppressing stories of interest for conservative…
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Jason Riley and the Left’s conservative minority problem
Jason Riley must be suffering from whiplash. This spring, the Wall Street Journal columnist and scholar with the prestigious Manhattan Institute was…
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Senate GOP presses Facebook over links to conservative stories
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday demanded an explanation from Facebook after reports that former company staffers excluded links to conservative political…
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Facebook reportedly suppressed news from conservative sites
It's only fitting that Twitter should have listed "Former Facebook Workers" as trending, because Facebook initially did not.…
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An alternative conservative view on the bathroom debate
Back in my UMass days, an eccentric Political Science professor of mine once quipped, "In the world of politics there'…
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Ted Cruz, likable guy? He’s working on that
WASHINGTON (AP) — After spending a year campaigning as a hardened, uncompromising conservative, Ted Cruz wants voters to see him in a different…
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Massachusetts students resist politically correct campus culture
CAMBRIDGE – While universities nationwide have made headlines for their crackdown on "microaggressions" and their creation of "safe spaces"…
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Red tape’s $2 trillion cost cited in call for reform
WASHINGTON – An assortment of conservative and libertarian groups is calling on Congress to implement a regulatory budget that would clamp down on…
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The case against Chanel Prunier
For the 90 percent of Massachusetts citizens who are not registered Republicans, the conflict within the state GOP must be hard to…
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Chanel Prunier: Building a grassroots GOP in Massachusetts
On April 5, Chanel Prunier will stand for reelection as Republican National Committeewoman. Those of us who have "labored in the…
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Tied 4-4 after Scalia’s death, high court gives unions a win
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the clearest sign yet of the impact of Justice Antonin Scalia's death, U.S. labor unions scored…
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Obama scoffs, says GOP leaders to blame for party ‘crackup’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Years of Republican hardline politics and divisive rhetoric have spawned Donald Trump and the "crackup" of the GOP,…
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Will the GOP Big Tent exclude Massachusetts conservatives?
Will the Big Tent have enough room for conservatives in the Massachusetts Republican Party? The answer to that question is wide open…
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Marco Rubio, once the protégé, steps out of the shadows
This article is part of a series of profiles of the 2016 presidential candidates that will appear on the NewBostonPost in the…
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Bread and circuses, 2016-style
A little thought exercise here. Imagine: Dwight Eisenhower, in 1956, wants to push from view Adlai Stevenson's prospects for reclaiming…
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Republican self-sabotage
The latest CBS poll suggests that the Donald Trump juggernaut continues to roll, with 35 percent of Republicans supporting him. Ted Cruz,…
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Justice Scalia’s life and the law
We should all be so lucky to live the life that Antonin Scalia did. When Justice Scalia passed away in his sleep…
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Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79
WASHINGTON (AP) — Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without…
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In Super PAC ad, Trump’s own words paint him as liberal
A new ad produced by an anti-Donald Trump super PAC is taking aim at the billionaire frontrunner's claim that…
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Republican party leaders rally to attack Trump, Cruz
Leaders of the Republican party entered prevent defense mode this week with former Senator Bob Dole warning of "cataclysmic" failure…
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Sarah Palin jumps into 2016 race, endorses Donald Trump
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump is brandishing the endorsement of conservative Republican firebrand Sarah Palin in the increasingly intense 2016 GOP presidential…
