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Freedom Has a Price

I graduated from high school in 1975, just as America was winding down its involvement in Vietnam. Flat feet, chronic ear infections, and being an only son might’ve kept me from service anyway—but by…

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THE LUCK OF THE SLICE

What Cancer Taught Me About Perspective For the past few years, I’ve known about something growing on my kidney. It was spotted during a CT scan for another issue. I had hoped it…

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THE POLITICS OF SPITE

Somewhere along the way, politics stopped being about ideas and started being about enemies. The measure of a good policy is no longer whether it helps Americans, but whether it hurts the right people…

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A NOBEL SNUB

In 2007, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade against climate change and then parlayed that into a $300 million net worth. Two years later, Barack Obama received the same…

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