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If you watch enough mainstream media, you know for sure that Donald Trump is down in the polls – probably hopelessly so – and that, above all, 2020 is not like 2016. But actually, 2020 looks a lot like 2016. Now as then, Trump has to win Republican-leaning battleground states Florida, North
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The immigration-restrictionist Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform worries the legislature will use its lame-duck session to push through a pair of bills that are pro-illegal immigration. Among those bills is one that would allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses in Massachusetts (S.2641 and H.3012). Another
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Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education — someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has administered an elementary, middle, or high school for at least a couple of years or so. This
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Are a pair of environmental groups violating Massachusetts and federal campaign finance law? The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance says so. The environmental groups so far are not commenting.
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State Representative David DeCoste sees a few ways in which he sets himself apart from many of his peers in the Massachusetts State House. The 57-year-old Republican from Norwell, who is seeking re-election in the Fifth Plymouth District (Hanover, Rockland, Norwell) in a race against former Hanover selectman and Democrat
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Does big tech censor conservatives and political dissidents? Many Americans thinks so — 73 percent of U.S. adults say that it is likely that social media sites "intentionally censor political viewpoints that they find objectionable," according to Pew Research.
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The Democrats are trying to make it socially unacceptable to vote to re-elect Trump. It seems to be working so far, at least up to a point. The Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, says he wrote in Ronald Reagan. The Republican governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, says he "
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There are an estimated 250,000 illegal immigrants in Massachusetts, according to Pew Research, and mass deportation is not happening anytime soon. Should Massachusetts do what Oklahoma does and try to extract some more tax revenue from them?
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