STATE HOUSE — It's rare that the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate and Gov. Charlie Baker can agree on tax policy – particularly if the question is about raising taxes.
But should Massachusetts voters next month decide to legalize marijuana, there could be a script all three would be willing to follow that would lead to a higher tax rate on pot than the one proposed in Question 4 on the November ballot.
The recently leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign confirm what most political observers have long known: that the liberal establishment is contemptuous of faith, tolerates no dissent, and views Roman Catholicism as a particularly ferocious enemy. Given the left's enthusiastic embrace of big government, this is hardly surprising.
Organized religion provides the most effective bulwark against the modern liberal agenda and traditional faith is the last institutional safeguard against the unmitigated tyranny of the behemoth state. For secular liberals, people of faith represent an obstacle to progress – an impediment to the instant gratification that political solutions can supposedly provide.
