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That day Julie decided they would eat lunch on the deck. She carried out a tray with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, baby carrots, grapes, a cup of juice for Libby and a bottled water for herself, and put them on the picnic table. “There,” she said. “We won’t even need forks or spoons, and
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Are we being too tough on President Joe Biden? Sure, the country is falling apart. Inflation is eating up household budgets and retirement plans. Certain goods have gone missing from the shelves of our grocery stores. Baby formula and now even tampons have become scarce. Through-the-roof increases in the cost of gasoline are emptying our
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Suppose you were a reporter without an agenda, no ax to grind, no political affiliation. You never stepped foot inside a school of journalism. Even better, following in the tradition of old-time journalists like H. L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, or Rose Wilder Lane, you never attended college. You read history, economics, and political science, you
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Over 40 years ago, “Lookin’ for Love” became a hit country song after appearing in the film Urban Cowboy. The song’s signature line is “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.” Several times in the last few weeks, that honky-tonk tune has inexplicably come to mind, and I found myself substituting the
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