A little while back, I mentioned that Barney Frank—he and I go back to my days at The Boston Phoenix and his days at the State House—had entered hospice care with a bad ticker. All those cigars, man. Anyway, Barney died Tuesday. He would have been worth knowing just for his now-immortal description of Republican family-values politics:
Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.
For years, I’ve heard that line, or a paraphrase of it, from dozens of other politicians and
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