“BOSTON” on The Daily Caller

The political world has been abuzz this week with the revelation that Harvard once found it advantageous to consider Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren a minority because of her distant Native American ancestry. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston subway dispatcher who programmed an electronic message board in a station to scroll the lyrics of “Deck the Halls” instead of the normal service announcements on Christmas Day won’t face severe punishment. (more)

Last week, Garrett Orr, a former priest at Georgetown Prep, a prestigious Catholic high school in D.C., was accused of sexual abuse. Orr was a teacher at Prep when I was there in the early 1980s, and I wrote about the scandal here and here. (more)

RANDOLPH, Mass. (AP) — Police say a Boston man picked the wrong mark when he tried to sell him fake gold jewelry at a grocery store. (more)

It’s not easy being a cat, especially when you’re Sal Esposito, a Boston feline who has been ordered to serve jury duty. (more)

The organs of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, who was the youngest of six people killed in last week’s Tucson shooting rampage, have been donated to another young girl in Boston, according to Green’s father John. (more)

In a super-sized world, it was perhaps inevitable: Boston’s Emergency Medical Services this month will begin deploying an ambulance equipped with a hydraulic lift to ease transport of the heaviest patients. (more)

More than nine out of 10 Americans celebrate Christmas – even atheists, agnostics or believers in other faiths, according to surveys by LifeWay Research and USA TODAY/Gallup. They might be roasting chestnuts over an open fire, decking the halls with boughs of holly or trying to get the Chipmunks Christmas song out of their heads, but they are celebrating. The problem is, what are they celebrating? (more)

How’s this for a provocative start of an article: the Tech Guys advocate attracting 100 million new immigrants to the United States in the next 20 years. Why? For three simple reasons: to expand the economy, to remain the world’s strongest country and to be consistent with American values. (more)

When you ask a friend to join you for a nice weekend cruise from Miami, you don’t expect the friend to be hauled away by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents into a private room where she says she was practically strip-searched. But that’s what happened at Logan International Airport in Boston. (more)

A Catholic priest charged with stealing $83,000 from his Massachusetts parish spent a large portion of the money on his pornography habit, according to police. (more)