WASHINGTON, D.C. - We all like to be prepared. It's the Boy Scout motto, Be Prepared. And what does that mean? The story with …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - We all like to be prepared. It's the Boy Scout motto, Be Prepared. And what does that mean? The story with …
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My father's discussions of life at the University of Virginia in the mid 1950s often involved parties and social life, and the …
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Austrian thinker and Catholic priest Ivan Illich, largely forgotten today, predicted and legitimized a critique of capitalism …
Every few years, federal, state and local planners lay out outlandish plans for high speed rail networks that never seem to go …
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The subject of Brexit and the European Union offers an enormous opportunity for the U.K. and Commonwealth, despite the obvious …
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ELLENTON -Heading into get coffee at Dunkin Donuts, I decided to go in, rather than drive through. In Florida, all morning fast …
There are a handful of non-fiction books I come back to again and again. These are sorts of books that each time you go back to …
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The effort to save Sweet Briar College succeeded; it has been a wake up that a well-funded, well-respected and well-financed …
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In the current climate, implicit rights that were once easily accepted have fallen by the wayside. Two decades ago, if we had …
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