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Joe Biden could have been a good president. All he had to do was leave things alone. Instead, he blundered into the office and wrecked the country. He is like the guy on a Boeing 747 high over the Atlantic Ocean who breaks into the cockpit and says, “I can fly this thing.” “You don’t have to, Joe,” the pilot says, “It’s on autopilot. It flies itself. You know, computers.” Undeterred, Joe presses buttons and flips switches. The plane goes into a nosedive. Which is where we are today. You don’t put a guy like this in control. He is...

If I were one of those phony political consultants, I would have charged Deval Patrick an initial $ 100,000 for taking my advice to run for president. Since I am not, I will waive the fee. I gave the former Massachusetts governor that advice in a political column that ran in the Boston Herald Sept. 21, and in the Lowell Sun and Sentinel & Enterprise a day earlier.

Once upon a time in America a presidential campaign was decided on the phrase “Rum, Romanism & Rebellion.” It was not exactly true, but it worked. Now, 125 years after that controversial campaign and election, the slogan shaping up for Democrats running against Donald Trump is another Triple R — “Russia, Race & Recession.” None of that is exactly true, either

Poor Duke. Here he was minding his own business, lecturing on government, and picking up trash along the roadways, as is his habit. And suddenly out of the blue along comes President Donald Trump, who trashed him for riding in a tank 30 years ago when Michael S. Dukakis, then governor of Massachusetts, was running for president

Boston had seven daily newspapers when I started out as a newspaper reporter in the early sixties. Now there are two. Those papers were the old Boston Herald, the p.m. Boston Traveler, The Boston Globe, Boston Evening Globe, Boston American, Boston Recor

Here is all you need to know about the Donald Trump-hating Washington/New York media establishment. While the press was hysterically fixated on porn star Stormy Daniels and her alleged one-nighter with the president a decade ago, it missed the biggest story to come down the pike in months. And that was CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s secret visit to North Korea over the Easter weekend to meet in Pyongyang with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un