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Recently for this publication I embarked on a series of book reviews regarding recent books of high quality concerning the Civil War and with an emphasis on how the war affected Florida. I was moved to do this because a couple readers of my book reviews on natural history books emailed me asking if I might consider writing about the antebellum period, the Civil War, and the post-bellum period following the war. More ... Far too often we have heard all the hype and hoopla about alternative energy sources. Allow me to first give away the "butler did it" ending: Unless the free market comes up with an alternative source, anything the government touts as the next best thing is bound to fail. Period. More ... Barack Obama is given to calling the GOP a party captive of hateful special interests. It takes a lot of what my Jewish friends call "chutzpah" to suggest that unnamed special interests control the Republican Party when his own party is totally captive to the most wealthy and powerful special interests in the nation. More ... "Take one of the wife's bright ideas. Because meat and poultry are so high, she decided we're vegetarians now. I wake nights dreaming of juicy burgers. As one wit said, if God didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them taste so good?" More ... On the night of January 20, 2009, a new commander-in-chief will leave the inaugural podium, parade, and festivities for the Oval Office. A national security staff ready with the latest "threat briefing" will join him there. On his desk, they will place a thick binder of reports, each focusing on real or emerging threats to our national security. More ... |
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