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For the last several weeks the Massachusetts media has begun talking about the rising crime rate in Boston, most particularly the rising crime rate surrounding illegal firearms. As GOAL members know, we have been reporting this for almost three years now. The state’s own Department of Public Health has been tracking this rise in gun crime ever since the passage of the state’s “Worst in the Nation” gun laws in 1998. Now that the state’s gun laws have failed to stem crime (in fact they have done just the opposite) some Boston city officials are scrambling to come up with...

SHOOTINGS in Boston are up 28 percent over last year, The Boston Globe reported last week. One culprit the Globe singled out: New Hampshire gun laws. The paper noted that police have traced some guns to "New Hampshire and Vermont, where firearms laws are less strict and easy for criminals to manipulate." Or, to put it another way, they have traced guns to New Hampshire and Vermont, where firearms laws are less strict and citizens have an easier time obtaining guns for self-defense. If our firearms laws are the cause of high gun crime, then why is most of the...

More than two and a half years ago, the nation laughed as pro-family crusader Rick Santorum predicted the consequences of legalized gay marriage: If man-on-man marriage was sanctified, man-on-child and man-on-dog unions might not be far behind. Those who jeered Santorum were silenced last Tuesday. Man-on-dog isn’t legal just yet, but if the Massachusetts State Legislature has its way, it might be soon. On November 1, cheerleading for bestiality was just one of a string of stunning pieces of legislation that converged on the legislature’s judiciary committee in a bizarre, post-Halloween orgy. The imminent collapse of the state cannot be...

"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit." -- Samuel Gompers, the American Federation of Labor's first president. A small business that provides the sort of comprehensive medical benefits that union-owned politicians might deem appropriate turns no profit and soon is no longer in business and is putting "working families" in the unemployment line. Politicians may think all workers are "entitled" to the same benefits enjoyed by unionized public employees, but no real-world company operating on that philosophy survives very long. From their own budget-balancing quandaries, politicians know full well that insurance...