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Kelvin Cochran grew up in Louisiana with one goal in life: to become a firefighter. He realized that dream in 1981 in his native Shreveport. He rose through the ranks, and in 1999 became the fire chief there, the first African-American to serve in that capacity. In 2008, he was
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Maybe ICE agents should start showing up at Massachusetts courts undercover. They could look and act like someone who poses no legal threat to illegal aliens. Perhaps they could pose as drug dealers or gang members … or maybe wear a black robe. The latest outrage is that a district court
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Thanksgiving is not primarily about turkey, football, or even family. It's primarily about giving thanks to God. Two outstanding examples in American history show the way. In October 1621, after a winter when they had seen half their people die of starvation and disease, the Pilgrims gave thanks
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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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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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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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