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Zito: American hostage’s mom pleads ‘Bring them home’

His first name roughly means “first crop,” which is what first-born son Omer was for Ronen and Orna Neutra 22 years ago. The photos his family shares show a young man bursting with life and...

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Krikorian: Taxpayers funding illegal immigration

People often ask how illegal immigrants can afford to pay for their journeys. Much of the funding comes from predictable sources: Relatives in the United States may send the money, the migrant may...

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Howie Carr: Fani Willis drama must-see moment

President Trump, please, I’m begging you, fly to Atlanta tomorrow for that court hearing on whether to disqualify the corrupt Democrat prosecutor behind that phony-baloney Georgia election-interference...

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Lucas: Biden could take lesson in humility from JFK

A little humility never hurts. A lot of hubris does, though Faced with embarrassing defeat, President Joe Biden should show some humility, not the excessive pride and arrogance that defines hubris. It...

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Scimeca: Mass tort litigation makes us all poorer

As regular viewers of late-night television know, commercial breaks are filled with endless ads recruiting potential victims of some product or treatment. Although seemingly innocuous, these ads...

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Battenfeld: Maura Healey SJC appointment raises thorny ethical questions she...

The problem with Gov. Maura Healey nominating her ex as a Supreme Judicial Court justice is not that it came from a small rubber-stamp panel – the problem is the thorny ethical questions the nomination...

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Howie Carr: The PPP dog whistle payback time

When the feds set up all the COVID welfare programs in 2020 during the Panic, it was like blowing a dog whistle for every fraudster, grifter and flim-flam man on planet earth. It was a high-pitched...

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Franks: Confessions of a former ‘basketballist’

I am a blessed man. I am an American. I am a Black American, a descendant of slaves who has been granted the vast opportunities this country has to offer. Praise God. It did not have to be this way. In...

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Ambrose: It’s time for Biden to pack up & go

Lately, things have gone kaboom for Joe Biden even though it was just a few years ago that he was elected president. It was at least partly because he and his multiple faults hid out in a basement by...

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Lucas: We’re on our own with migrant mess

Gov. Maura Healey ought to make a quiet trip to the southern border. There, she could get a firsthand look at how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is dealing with the illegal immigrant invasion of the country....

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Kolhatkar: Airbnb driving up housing $$ for everyone

Americans have been on a vacation binge since the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. In particular, the vacation rental company Airbnb is thriving. Late last year, the company posted its highest-ever...

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Editorial: Israel takes hostage issue into own hands with raid

Negotiations designed to secure the release of hostages taken during the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel “were productive and serious,” CNN reported Tuesday. But Israel has also taken its own...

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DeRugy: Joe Biden’s shrinkflation blame game

President Joe Biden wants to remind you that your Super Bowl party was more expensive than it used to be. The reason, he claims, is corporate greed and “shrinkflation.” In a social media video before...

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Lowry: Russia is a civilizational adversary

The poet Robert Frost once said that a liberal is someone too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight. What would he say about those on the right who seem to be confused about the same question?...

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Battenfeld: Potential Elizabeth Warren GOP challenger a step in right direction

Cryptocurrency lawyer John Deaton may not be the answer to the Elizabeth Warren problem, but it’s a step in the right direction. The far left Bay State senator could be vulnerable and is clearly...

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Howie Carr: The ‘putality’ of Biden’s mind

All dialogue guaranteed verbatim. That is my guarantee to you, the readers, whenever I present Dementia Joe Biden’s unedited, unexpurgated remarks for your edification, shall we say. Let us begin this...

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Antoni & St. Onge: Scranton Joe & the Temple of Doom spending

Millions of young Americans seem to have given up on their economic future, turning instead to “doom spending.” Rather than save up for a house, to start a family or for retirement — which they view as...

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Gaskin: DEI is Job 1 in going forward with green energy

Those who supported the Green New Deal claim victory for getting the largest federal investment ever to fight climate change in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs...

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Lucas: Kamala Harris may be ‘ready,’ but voters are not

Ronald Reagan may have gotten it wrong back in 1986 when the popular conservative Republican President said: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and...

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Battenfeld: Michelle Wu’s divisive decision to exclude thousands of kids from...

Michelle Wu loves feel-good initiatives that give away free stuff, and never worries about the cost to taxpayers or businesses. But her decision to exclude thousands of charter, parochial and METCO...

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