Archive for the ‘health care’ Category
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A Crack in the Windshield
Posted on June 29, 2011
About a year ago, as I was driving, a small rock that was kicked up by the truck I was following hit my windshield and put a little crack in...
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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The Global Society
Posted on June 20, 2011
It used to be said that domestic differences stop at the water’s edge. That was never less true than it is today. The fact of the matter is that foreign...
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Gerry Returns
Posted on June 13, 2011
When Elbridge Gerry presided over Massachusetts as its governor in 1812, he signed into a law a redistricting plan that helped benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. One district was said to...
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Sand Castles
Posted on June 10, 2011
A couple of months ago, I went to the beach with my son and together we built a sand castle. It was an impressive effort, with all the turrets and...
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