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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'
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Unplanned is a movie that you will never forget after watching. I can say that from a very personal level as it managed to pierce the thick skin of skepticism that I have developed over the years of civic and political activism. It certainly shows that while there are many
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A state appeals court has upheld the latitude of local police chiefs to decide who can and can't carry a handgun in Massachusetts, overturning two lower-court judges who found that a police chief in Taunton acted unreasonably when he revoked a license to carry from a man whose
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The symbolic date when Massachusetts residents are said to start working for themselves instead of merely paying their tax burden to government is coming up next week, according to an organization that tracks taxes. Massachusetts is tied for 43rd in the nation this year for earliest Tax Freedom Day, which
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Former Boston Globe freelance writer Luke O'Neil says he never had any inkling to urinate on a dinner entree he served as a waiter 10 years ago to neoconservative William Kristol — as opposed to the earthy term he used while suggesting just that in the lede of a
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An op-ed column published Wednesday by The Boston Globe stated that the author regretted not "pissing" in prominent neoconservative Bill Kristol's food several years ago before the newspaper changed the word to "defiling" before the newspaper changed it to "telling [him] … what I
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The four Roman Catholic diocesan bishops in Massachusetts have come out against the so-called ROE Act abortion-expansion bills, calling them "deeply troubling." "The result would become abortion on demand for the full term of pregnancy," the bishops said in a written statement Friday, through their lobbying
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Supporters of a 4 percent state surtax on million-dollar-plus incomes can expect a largely receptive audience when they appear before a legislative committee Thursday to stump for an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution to establish it. Beacon Hill leaders had their eyes on the extra revenue before the Massachusetts Supreme
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