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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Op-Ed

Foster kids need you

By Ruth McRoy /  / As You Were Saying . . .
Children needing placement are an average of 8 years old and many of them have been in foster care for several years. Targeting...
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Op-Ed

Not to our health

By Deroy Murdock
As the Senate weighs a 2,074-page health care “reform” bill, supporters of a government option for medical coverage...
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Op-Ed

Real men don’t spin lettuce in a vacuum

By Roger Simon
The phone rings. It is my friend, Larry. “Catch you at a bad time?” he asks. No, no, I pant. Why? “You seem out of breath.” ...
Op-Ed

World won’t bow for Obama’s sake

By Michael Barone
On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition...
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Editorials

Moving on health

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Even as Senate Democrats prepare to make a show of support for majority leader Harry Reid’s health care bill, those...
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Editorials

And a delay on climate

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
The Senate will put off consideration of a climate-change bill until spring - and that’s good news. Delay gives opponents more time to make their...
Friday, November 20, 2009
Op-Ed

Don’t throw book at her

By Jonah Goldberg
Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that succubus Sarah...
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Op-Ed

The sister saved may be yours

By Lynne K. Varner
Obviously, I am not more knowledgeable about breast cancer than a government-led panel of experts. Yet I know enough to look...
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Op-Ed

Swing and miss in China visit

By Peter Brookes
If you were troubled by President Barack Obama’s “Wow Bow” in Japan, you won’t be any happier with...
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Editorials

Taxpayers never win

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Just when you think the Legislature might actually be “getting it” - hearing the public’s outrage over...
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Editorials

Race for last place

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
In failing to adopt meaningful education reforms by the end of formal sessions this week the Legislature has placed the commonwealth at risk of forfeiting some...
Letters to the Editor

The real score

As a Boston Public Schools employee I understand how this was put forward and it is not so cut and dried as is written here (“Union blocks teacher bonuses,”...
Letters to the Editor

Our Common interest

I love the idea of food in the Boston Common (“Two eateries seek Common ground,” Nov. 14). While the Shake Shack...
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Letters to the Editor

Victimized twice

The state’s decision to cut funding for the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program is in a word insane (Nov. 15). Certainly budgets are tight,...
Letters to the Editor

Illegals rewarded

There is only one problem with Gov. Deval Patrick’s New Americans Agenda: These people are not Americans (“Roadblocks...
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