The Hijacking of Health Insurance Reform

…the public — struggling with the worst economic downturn since the 1930s — is looking on with great anxiety and confusion. If the drug companies and the insurance industry are

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Verlyn Klinkenborg’s “Readers’ Muse” for the End of Summer

A good book is a good book whatever the weather or temperature. But summer brings with it the illusion of more free time, and just about now — when the

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Reforming an Ex-President’s Reputation?

Cheney’s disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues. If

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“Great Stories Come Out Of Great Farming”

I have been incredibly blessed to be able to combine this love of calloused hands with dramatic and verbal skills. And that is why I promote direct marketing. Too often

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Something Amazing Has Happened To My Reading Shelf…

I was sitting here contemplating the books piled on my reading shelf the other day and noticed an remarkable thing has happened…What once was predominantly fiction has become almost entirely

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Mountain Dreams

Weather Musing For The End Of July…

It is mid day here in southeast Texas. The temperature is pushing 90°. The clouds outside my kitchen window are growing black and rumbling with a bit of thunder. In

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