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May 17 was, in the words of Ron Crews of the Massachusetts Family Institute, “a day of mourning.” For on that day, Massachusetts officials began marrying man to man, and woman to woman. Those who brought about this state of affairs claim to believe in “equality” and to be “democrats,” but in fact are elites who will have nothing of equality, let alone democracy. Five elite groups brought about same-sex marriage, which is however not an unalterable condition: Activist judges, the establishment media, ultraliberal elected officials, gay activist organizations and the homosexual activist, “shadow government.” In the Supreme Court’s June...

Blanchette hasn't seen her daughter in 10 days, not since 13-year-old Haley Blanchette vanished from the home of her mother's cousins in Newport, R.I. Haley Blanchette, whose nickname is "Heaven," has been missing since Sept. 12, when she was seen boarding a bus from Newport to Providence. That's where the trail gets cold. Caroline Blanchette smokes cigarettes and waits. She lives on disability and Haley's father, Caroline says, died just after Haley was born. "It was really only the last year that I had trouble with her," Blanchette said. "This summer it was tough." The "trouble," Blanchette said, involved Haley...