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Massachusetts, Bring Back Fireworks
If King George III had banned fireworks in America, Thomas Jefferson would have mentioned it in the Declaration of Independence. Instead, our own Massachusetts Legislature banned them, back in 1943.
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If King George III had banned fireworks in America, Thomas Jefferson would have mentioned it in the Declaration of Independence. Instead, our own Massachusetts Legislature banned them, back in 1943.
Commentary
What would you do if they came for you? It's a question religious people sometimes ask themselves, hoping they'd give the right answer. Forbidden God is a movie about several dozen Roman Catholic seminarians who were rounded up by anti-clerical leftists during the early days of
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"These laws passed in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, and elsewhere are an unconstitutional attack on the fundamental rights of women. They are about prohibiting women from making personal decisions about their own bodies, their own families, and their own lives." — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, testifying before the Massachusetts
Commentary
In the final two readings of a recent Saturday's Torah portion (Acharei Mos (after the death)), G-d told the Hebrews that incest, bestiality, and homosexuality were prohibited sexual activities and that the Canaanite nations defiled themselves by engaging in these forbidden and abominable practices. Refraining from engaging in
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In his taped presidential campaign announcement, former Vice President Joe Biden began on a sublime note citing the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," he intoned, "that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights." Then he
Commentary
The indictment of a Newton District Court judge who prosecutors say helped an illegal immigrant escape a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last year is a good first step to stopping the outrageous behavior of some Massachusetts judges. But it's not enough.
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The mildness of Polish conservative Ryszard Legutko's classroom comments on the campus of Middlebury College last week highlight the silliness of the planned campus protest that led to the cancellation of his scheduled public speech. Legutko is a philosopher and a mainstream political figure in Poland – he'
Editorials
The timbers of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris had been drying out for eight centuries, so when a fire started near the roof they burned quickly, lighting up the sky in a riveting and sad spectacle Monday. The drying timbers, though beautiful before they were consumed, are a reminder