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(The Bostonian of the Year. Caution, language, racism, and stupidity warning.) It’s almost like you can’t trust the activists who advocate for criminals… not to be criminals. Controversial but connected Boston activist Monica Cannon-Grant used her nonprofit’s coffers as her own, federal prosecutors allege as the Violence in Boston founder faces charges of defrauding people…

The great thing about being an Islamist in the Ms. Marvel era is that no matter what awful things they catch you saying, there will be no consequences. After some initial awkwardness, everyone will back away for a few months or a year… and then the party is back on. When Bernie Sanders appeared with…

Putin has wrecked Russia’s already shaky economy, Biden is wrecking America’s already broken economy seemingly to stop him, and China, while it’s doing better than either America or Russia, has its own longstanding problems that are getting worse. Chinese policy makers became alarmed at the end of last year by how sharply growth had slowed…

Consider Hollywood thoroughly “disrupted”. Digital killed the movie theater star.  Before the pandemic, the theatrical and digital markets for entertainment were roughly similar in size. Last year, however, digital revenue was more than three times that of global box office, according to a new report by the Motion Picture Association. These are pandemic numbers and…

Biden, or the guys and gals pulling his strings, couldn’t think of a better time to appoint a top banking regulator who wanted to destroy the oil and gas industry than when gas prices are already horrifyingly high. Until, once again, Senator Manchin stepped in to save Biden and his party from themselves. After Manchin came…

A brief flashback. “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Ben Rhodes gloated. “That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.” Rhodes, the White House’s “Obama whisperer”, was explaining how he had pulled the wool over the media’s eyes on the Iran…