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As we enter this holiday period, it’s fair to say that the vast majority of Americans are just plain tired of a lot of things that are dragging down our nation.
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12/5/13
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When you decide what to write in a column, there are many subjects that you could cover. There’s only one problem.
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11/21/13
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It is Oct. 31, 1951, a bitterly cold Halloween. My mother and I are rushing home from the neighborhood bakery in the late afternoon.
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10/31/13
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The American flag exists at the periphery of most our lives. It takes on significance mainly at events kicked off by the playing of the national anthem, at parades and during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankees games.
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6/13/13
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In the past 60 days, two of the world’s greatest western powers were subjected to cruel and appalling attacks at the hands of vile Islamic terrorists.
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6/6/13
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I plugged a simple search term into Google last week: “Were Afghanistan and Iraq worth it?” Tens of thousands of entries popped up.
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5/31/13
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“The Yellow Birds,” by Kevin Powers, should be required reading. The debut novel tells the story of two young American soldiers fighting their way through Al Tafar province in Iraq in 2004.
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5/23/13
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In a day and age when we are furloughing U.S. workers, cutting back programs, fighting over how to reduce the deficit and raising taxes, it’s hard to believe that taxpayers are footing a $2 billion-a-week bill — over $100 billion a year — to maintain our troops in Afghanistan.
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4/4/13
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“The crises in Iran and Afghanistan have dramatized a very important lesson: Our excessive dependence on foreign oil is a clear and present danger to our nation’s security."
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3/7/13
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I watched the sun set this week down at a storm-ravaged beach, and I realized that while the sun rises and the sun sets, pretty much everything else changes.
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11/23/12
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