This is the time of year when I am buried underneath catalogs of all shapes, sizes, and descriptions. It’s an old fashioned thing. Most of you probably went paperless sometime ago. Now you get spam, tweets, likes, bites, burps, and whatever other insidious means of assaulting our senses that marketers come up with. You can […]
When I first saw the news story I skipped it. I didn’t want to know. The accused vampire was seventy-seven years old. A powerful American icon with a net worth of a third of a billion dollars. Among the honors bestowed on him were over a dozen honorary doctorate degrees and the beloved title of
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I flipped on the light as I opened the door. He was a young man, mid twenties, and I wondered why he was ringing my doorbell on a Sunday night. Since I didn’t see a tie or stack of Watchtowers, I decided to satisfy my curiosity. Some people open their door to anyone or answer
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THE OLD AND THE NEW Not long ago, the Republican Party stood largely for pragmatic military policy, stable economic measures, and sensible national and international diplomacy. Think of the impressive successes inspired by this political vision, such as when President Reagan pulled the country out of a recession and ended the Cold War. Unfortunately, as most will admit (including
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Recently, troubled teenagers in residential treatment programs throughout America have been brutally marched to death, sexually abused, raped, electrocuted over 30 times a day (warning: upsetting video), restrained until nearly dead, and more. However, the gory details of several cases aren’t the worst part. The worst part, according to testimony before Congress and much evidence, is
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