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Barah O’Palin

Strange headline, huh? Well, it might as well be true with the current political events transpiring across America…

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What a bad week for America . . .

Just when the American people thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. In the span of just…

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The wheels on the bus keep on spinning

Only in America, where the right to dissent is actually applauded, can a compromise that took weeks to…

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Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

The art of compromise is essential to democracy. It always has been, is now and ever shall be…

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Who is going to blink first?

The world is watching the events in two capitols of the world: Athens and Washington. In both of…

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Gold, gas and greed

The headlines around the nation and the world have been filled with ghastly declarations of chaos, fiscal deadlines…

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Time and distance bring new views

When I left Reserve at the age of 16 to attend the Louisiana School for Math, Science and…

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Can you touch the ceiling?

How do you solve a problem between two sides that refuse to budge an inch? I don’t know…

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Casey Anthony vs. Thomas Jefferson

As I spoke with friends on July 4, I had hoped to hear conversations about the direction of…

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Release the reserves?

In the past week, the Obama administration announced the release of 33 million barrels of oil from the…