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Gelzinis: Homegrown terrorists wreak as much havoc
In the absence of all we don’t know about Robert Lewis Dear, or why he allegedly chose to inflict terror and death inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Black Friday, we do know a...
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Gelzinis: GOP abortion rhetoric picks up after shooting
For more than 24 hours after Friday’s fatal attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, there wasn’t a peep from any of the Republicans running for president.Nothing from Donald Trump, or Ted...
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Gelzinis: More weapons not the answer
Another week, another mass shooting.Today, or certainly by tomorrow, at least one of the candidates running for president is going to suggest that if only some of those county employees in San...
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Gelzinis: ‘Instinct and training’ kicks in for cops during shooter situation
The live video from a helicopter hovering above a San Bernardino street on Wednesday was mesmerizing, but it didn’t tell the whole story.As a platoon of police officers scampered across a yard to get...
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Gelzinis: Some seek gain from tragedy
They are complete strangers who happen to be separated by 3,000 miles of these United States. And yet, Doyle Miller and Joe Amoroso are kindred spirits.What they share is that sleazy ability to seize...
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Gelzinis: Trump’s slogan should be ‘Make America Hate Again’
The only thing that surprises me about Donald Trump’s proposal barring Muslims from entering this country is that he waited almost five full days after the massacre in San Bernardino to call for it.I...
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Bridal Sweet: Injured fan scores home run as Red Sox offer Fenway for nuptials
Even if the Red Sox didn’t plan to extend the protective netting along the first- and third-base lines, Stephanie Wapenski had no intention of staying away from the ballpark she loves. And now, in a...
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Gelzinis: Yancey, Murphy close City Council chapters
Subtitle: Going out in good gracesForced retirements are not usually accompanied by thunderous applause, accolades from colleagues or tears of gratitude. But then, the Boston City Council chamber is...
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Gelzinis: Welfare of Bella Bond
Subtitle: Mom allegedly got benefits after tot’s deathNow we can surmise how Rachelle Bond and her zombie boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, continued to pay for the drugs they consumed in the weeks and...
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Gelzinis: School thanks firefighters, helps victims
Jack Barry, district chief of the Lynn Fire Department, described the Dec. 4 inferno in a home on Bruce Place as one of those “terrible glass half full, half empty fires.”“We were able to save lives...
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Gelzinis: Six families bear unthinkable loss
Four days before Christmas, a suicide bomber rode a motorcycle laden with explosives into an area near the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, killing six American soldiers.This means six flag-draped...
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Gelzinis: O’Malley message trumps any ‘War on Christmas’
’Tis the season when self-appointed defenders of Christmas expend all kinds of TV time and column inches railing against the “PC” infidels who dare to utter “Happy Holidays” in place of Merry...
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Gelzinis: Hub leaders show wisdom by banning fake guns
Mayor Marty Walsh and Police Commissioner Billy Evans should take a bow for persuading the City Council to ban the use of so-called “replica,” or fake guns, in Boston.Guns like the one 12-year-old...
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Gelzinis: Mournful new year in Lynn
On their first day back from vacation, they came together in Room 215 at Lynn English High School yesterday and resumed a discussion of the twin subjects that ambushed them just before Christmas.It...
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Gelzinis: Ted Cruz birther bit just to Trump up headlines
The one thing you can say about Donald J. Trump is that he is shameless. Absolutely shameless.The “birther card” Trump first played years ago to derail Barack Obama’s presidency in its first term has...
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Suspect fortunate Boston’s finest showed restraint
If Grant Headley had been in Chicago, or New York, or St. Louis when he allegedly chose to open fire on a police officer yesterday morning, chances are he’d be dead today.But Headley, a 27-year-old...
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Gelzinis: Nanny should take advantage of wake-up call
If God is kind and redemption is possible, then accused drunk nanny Susan Conway-Lally will soon stand before a gathering of her fellow alcoholics at an A.A. meeting to talk about last Wednesday, the...
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Gelzinis: Key question in cop shooting: Why are judges `dumping' criminals on...
On his way back to being booked after allegedly shooting at a drug unit cop, Grant Headley tried to set fire to the vehicle ferrying him back to his cell, according to police.“We figure he was either...
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Gelzinis: Driver’s gamble on trial could pay off
The video tore everyone’s heart out 14 months ago.It showed Kevin Cellucci, a strapping young carpenter, deliriously romping with his two toddler sons on Christmas morning. A few minutes later, we saw...
View ArticleGelzinis: Diversity in Boston’s hallways makes claims disheartening
While he was rubbing elbows with the nation’s mayors in Washington, D.C., this week, Marty Walsh was ambushed by a school controversy back home.Claims by black students at Boston Latin School of racial...
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