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Truth Is Duller Than Fiction One of those near and dear to me in my adopted hometown of Bloomington feels I’m betraying the journalists’ code of curiosity when I dismiss 9/11 Truthers and other...
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Crazy, Man! Honestly, who doesn’t like Willie Nelson? Anybody? I’m figuring the Willie Nelson-phobes are outnumbered a thousand to one. Good ol’ Willie is one of those people — of which there are a...
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May Day! Enjoy the real labor day today. And remember, little niceties like the 40-hour work week, weekends, lunch hours, workplace safety regulations, collective bargaining, child labor laws, workers...
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The Salute 1968. I was 12 years old that momentous year. Had I been like most 12-year-olds, I would have paid little or no attention to anything going on in the world outside my block and my sixth and...
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Power Politics So many of my pals on the Left were aghast that some nearly toothless gun control measures lost in the Senate last month. How can this be? they shrieked. Ninety percent of Americans...
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Should I Believe What I See? I’m as ambivalent about home schooling as I am about traditional schooling. The schools I went to, by and large, stifled creativity, served as public relations firms for a...
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Teen Pregnancy & Market Forces Much has been made over the Fortune magazine writer who claimed on Fox News (where else?) that unwed teenagers who give up their babies for adoption face some kind of...
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Move Along, Folks; Nothin’ To See Here Now comes word that maybe — just maybe — authorities didn’t really give a damn that there might have been captives being held in the home of one of the craziest...
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The Blackboard Gulag I wish I knew more about the circumstances that led up to that long-haired kid in Texas lecturing his teacher about, well, teaching. You’ve probably seen the viral vid: ■ Context,...
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Nazis On The March In America! If there’s one thing we can all agree on when it comes to the Tea Party-ists, it’s that they consider themselves the most persecuted group in the whole history of...
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