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Comment on: Middleborough officials not on board with Cape Flyer train - South - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: Barnett Newman painting auctioned in NY for $43.8M - A&E - Boston.com
The only reason I can think of is that the other work by this artist, though probably also abstract, was more visually substantial than this work and the buyers and bidders really valued obtaining one more »
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Comment on: Amtrak unveils locomotives to replace aging fleet - Business - The Boston Globe
Buses and railroads will continue to grow market share and I think we'll even see the reintroduction of non-Amtrak intercity rail passenger service in the not too distant future too as a result of con more »
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Reading the story, Webb said he sent his kids to Malaysia so they could experience the culture there. I have often seen people in the US spend time overseas so that their kids don't lose the culture more »
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Uh, Sopwith, refresh my memory. Just *when* did Christians have the chance to "root out" Salvi, but didn't do so? Salvi was a kook that came out of nowhere. I am quite sure that many Christians wou more »
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I don't know. I've read this short piece as well as the full article at BostonGlobe.com along with all these reader comments, but still, I don't know. I hear over and over, Islam is a religion of pe more »
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Comment on: Police facing questions in 3 women's Ohio rescue - News - Boston.com
This is so true. I recall when police wore hats and ties - and no, blue/black SWAT helmets don't count as hats.
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Comment on: Mass. funeral director chasing burial offers - News - Boston.com
I hear you, but speaking even as a libertarian, let's be clear, there are LOTs of provisions of the Patriot Act that are loathsome and one needn't be a liberal to see that.
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Comment on: Mass. funeral director chasing burial offers - News - Boston.com
Talking about things seems to be the only thing the mother and father do. I have yet to see any follow through on their now-cancelled visits to the US or anything else for that matter.
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Comment on: Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales - Business - Boston.com
It seems to me the solution is fairly simple. Instead of taxing based on the buyer's location, tax based on the business' location as if the buyer was coming to the store. This way, the seller woul more »
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Comment on: Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales - Business - Boston.com
It seems to me the solution is fairly simple. Instead of taxing based on the buyer's location, tax based on the business' location as if the buyer was coming to the store. This way, the seller woul more »
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Comment on: Armored truck maker sees validation in use during manhunt but critics disagree - Business - The Boston Globe
This creeping militarization and arms race between the citizens and the police will not end well. Progressives for years have been decrying the militarization of right wing radicals along with being more »
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I agree with cordgrass and sjwu81. That said, I think long term we could take a less violent approach to appropriating oil and other resources in the Middle East and acknowledge that our own military more »
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Comment on: Ron Paul criticizes Boston shutdown during police search - Politics - The Boston Globe
Is it possible to wish for a less militarized police solution without being given the childish, overly political, false choice of bad schools and teenage pregnancy versus police spraying bullets all o more »
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Comment on: Ron Paul criticizes Boston shutdown during police search - Politics - The Boston Globe
We didn't need the light tanks. People on both the left and the right have been voicing concerns about the creeping militarization of police forces for some time. You make some good points, but ther more »
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Comment on: Ron Paul criticizes Boston shutdown during police search - Politics - The Boston Globe
Yes, all else equal, little people are SO annoying, aren't they?
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Comment on: Ron Paul criticizes Boston shutdown during police search - Politics - The Boston Globe
Exactly. This country has dealt with bombers, mass murderers, and serial killers before without turning the police into a blue-colored army. Special steps were needed here, but the over-the-top mili more »
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Comment on: Ron Paul criticizes Boston shutdown during police search - Politics - The Boston Globe
What does his height have to do with anything? Paul was one of the only Presidential candidates that was consistently against the Iraq war and the endless militarized drone bombing. It's okay to di more »
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Well, we will see. We have now had 2 occasions this year where we have been told to stay inside, one enforced with a fine and one not. Previous to this the last travel ban was 35 years ago during th more »
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Hear, hear, Ron Paul!
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Comment on: The man behind bag fees - Business - The Boston Globe
I don't fly much anymore because of what flying has become and I don't miss it. I've heard a fair number of other people say the same thing. 'Hope the airlines are happy.
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Comment on: Deval Patrick, State Police defend response to Boston Marathon bombings - Boston.com
Having lived through the Blizzard of 78 back when and seeing all those cars stuck on 128, and after hearing the forecast for this past winter's storm, I thought it was the right call to shut the roads more »
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Comment on: Officials: Suspect unarmed when arrested in boat - News - Boston.com
They were still investigating that boat and backyard several days after the arrest. If they missed a gun tossed overboard, that doesn't speak well for their efforts. I, for one, highly doubt they'd more »
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Comment on: Officials: Suspect unarmed when arrested in boat - News - Boston.com
I will also say that I heard some people complain that the criminals are firing "automatic" weapons all over Watertown and that they have stronger firepower than the police....this from a very anti-gu more »
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Comment on: Officials: Suspect unarmed when arrested in boat - News - Boston.com
I agree. At one point they said that over 250 rounds were fired during the Thursday night, early Friday morning shootout. Now we find the brothers only had a single semi-auto pistol between them, th more »
I'm tired of people whining about trains running on railroad tracks. Those tracks have been there for decades and decades and the railroad(s) shouldn't need new permission everytime they run a new tr more »