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Saturday, November 22, 2008

We’re justice’s gatekeeper

By William J. Leahy / / As You Were Saying . . .

Any fair examination of CPCS spending could only conclude that the Committee for Public Counsel Services is “operationally...

4 Comments

Soldiers know this gratitude is heart-felt

By David Chicoine

The scene is a familiar one: People standing around an airport terminal waiting for their flight, and one, lone soldier standing...

3 Comments

Brakes on the bailout

By Jay Ambrose

Auto executives flew into Washington in private jets, and before long there was congressional stalemate on what they wanted,...

1 Comment

Friday, November 21, 2008

Duty’s torch again passes to youth

By Bill Purcell and John Della Volpe

Despite the daunting challenges and dangers that confront the new administration, our nation is also presented with an opportunity that at best comes once every...

Success in Iraq cost U.S. dearly

By Michael Gerson

WASHINGTON - A war that once seemed likely to end in a panic of helicopters fleeing the American embassy now seems destined...

1 Comment

City Hall needs green thumb

By W.Z. Woodlief

Forget all that folderol over whether Boston Mayor Tom Menino got the better of Michael Flaherty by announcing a new energy-conserving,...

1 Comment

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Mitt Romney adds auto industry bailout to flip-flops

By Rachelle Cohen

The guy who began his unsuccessful presidential run at the Henry Ford Museum, standing beside a Nash Rambler, yesterday weighed...

26 Comments

Under Chairman Howard Dean, Democratic comeback

By Roger Simon

When Howard Dean got to Washington just under four years ago, he didn’t know what to expect. Well, no, that’s not true. He did know what to...

Pols would raise tolls, fuel taxes

By Michael Graham

In the tolls vs. taxes debate, I’m solidly on the taxes side. And not just because I spend more money on the Pike each...

8 Comments

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bullied Barack Obama lets guard down

By Peter Brookes

Barack Obama campaigned on the promise of “change,” but one change the president-elect may be planning on - not...

19 Comments

No need for new New Deal

By Jonah Goldberg

On Sunday night, President-elect Barack Obama told “60 Minutes” that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be a model of...

3 Comments

Full speed ahead for bad bailout

By George F. Will

WASHINGTON - “Nothing,” said a General Motors spokesman last week, “has changed relative to the GM board’s...

1 Comment

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Hillary Clinton would be world of trouble

By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Hopefully, it’s just a rumor started by the Clintonistas, but is Barack Obama seriously considering appointing Hillary...

33 Comments

Taxachusetts lives unless we take action

By Michael Graham

Are these the tolls that try men’s souls? Two weeks after the obedient masses of Massachusetts did what they were...

30 Comments

By aiding Afghan women, we fight terror

By Susan Retik

Sept. 11, 2001: the United States is attacked by terrorists. In the blink of an eye, 3,000 Americans are killed, my husband of six years and the father of our...

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