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Democrats’ Maine Senate Gamble Raises Questions About Standards
The Democratic Party’s approach to Maine’s Senate race has sparked a......

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Games We Play

Games We Play


Lets play. I remember playing “Cops and Robbers” in the elementary school yard in Richland, GA. It was e...

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Trying to deal with Artie Fishel  Intelligence

Trying to deal with Artie Fishel Intelligence


RING! RING! RING! “Hello. Dick Yarbrough speaking. How may I direct your call?” “Dick, it’s ...

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No, Iran and China Are Not ‘Winning’
For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: that the best wa......

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Attracting Wrens

Attracting Wrens


Tweet-tweet. While writing to you, I’m distracted by activity outside. There is a bird house on a po...

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A reminder of the privilege and responsibility for these words

A reminder of the privilege and responsibility for these words


As if this job isn’t hard enough already trying to get nouns and verbs to agree (nouns and verbs can ...

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When Political Violence Becomes Acceptable, It Becomes Inevitable
A society that begins to excuse political violence should not be surprised......

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The elections aren’t over until they are over

The elections aren’t over until they are over


The good news is that the primary elections are over. The bad news is the primary elections are not ove...

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Books That Changed Us

Books That Changed Us


Disposable! The Kansas Woman thinks she ruined my favorite skillet, the one with the non-stick surface tha...

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China: Our Enemy, Not Our Rival
China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America’s geopolitical enemy — and has b...

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What would life be without a junk drawer?

What would life be without a junk drawer?


I’m not sure how anyone could exist without a junk drawer. No household that calls itself a household...

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Choo Choo

Choo Choo


Where’s it going? There was a bit on the news about a miraculous high speed rail project in California ...