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My wife and I began reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn since we ourselves are living in Brooklyn. The book is an account of a life in poverty at the turn of the century. I began thinking - how would this account differ if written today? Well, here is how it might go:
Francie was a [...]

I would like everyone to take the following challenge.
Go to the US Post Office to ship an overnight package. Don’t bring a box, just show up and ask the person at the counter for a box and ask some questions about the shipment. Now go to FedEx and do the same thing.
Now ask yourself if [...]

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]

Comrade, let me welcome you to the United Socialist States of America. It’s been a long voyage, you may not realize you’d left, but you have most certainly arrived.
In the USSA, we care about the peasant class, the poor, the workers. So much so that we are carefully tending to new ways of creating more [...]

We moved to New York, and my parents have suddenly gotten season tickets for every show that visits Atlanta. The last time Susanna and I went to a show was Les Miserables at least a year ago. So this weekend we decided to dump the kids on our friend Shannon (visiting from Toronto) and go [...]

I browsed over to CNN and took a look at the summary of a couple of articles.
“Michael Gates Gill enjoys making lattes and cleaning toilets”

You know… I’m suddenly not really in the mood for a latte. Note to self - no Mr. Gill latte’s
Sen. McCain: We need to spend money to create jobs, but not [...]