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A Broadway show, a star-studded television tribute, a new hotel and museum in Nashville. As odes to Dolly Parton keep coming, a recording of the late country music singer honoring an American Jewish journalist has recently surfaced. Never before released in America, the song, “A Bridge Across,” sung by Parton and accompanied by the Nashville Symphony, honors slain journalist Daniel Pearl. The song features spare lyrics set to violin music composed in honor of Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was brutally murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Originally recorded in 2008 by Parton, renowned fiddler Mark O’Connor,...

One of our distinguished Massachusetts U.S. senators, Daniel Webster, once said, “There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.” While people are more concerned with the latest binge-worthy television show or the newest game on their iPad, are they missing the destruction of the United States? How would you do it from within? The first step would be to jeopardize the country’s financial stability. Increasing the national debt by $7 trillion is a good starting...