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I have served on local town committees since 1963. Over the years, we have been buffeted by a steady stream of new state laws that require increasingly detailed recording and reporting of our meetings.

Notable quotables from Dominic Erdozain, Byron York, Star Parker, and more.

Libertarianism is more attuned to self-reliance and reliance on neighbors.

THE FOUNDATION "All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride...

"Undoing the damage of three decades of radicalization by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas will take generations," writes one reader. Another writes, "It remains to be seen whether any recognizable semblance of ... a society will be left" in Gaza.

 

A Massachusetts town has raised what a local Jewish leader calls "a symbol to just eliminate the entire Jewish population."

I’ve been reading scattered reports of schools flying the Palestinian flag, and of course, the town of North Andover, MA is flying the Palestinian flag as well. Adve...

Officials in @North_Andover, MA, have decided to fly the Palestinian flag on the town common until Dec. 7. Because why wouldn't you raise a flag in honor of the savage terrorist regime that has j...

“China’s weakening economy offers an opportunity to win meaningful changes in Beijing’s policies,” argues Thomas J. Duesterberg at The Wall Street Journal. But “it will take a hard-line approach.”