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25 December 2008
The water churned and pushed against the ice with a dark seriousness that reminded me of prayer.

Subzero Chicago night at the edge of the year,...
18 December 2008
"Dad, did you know the governor of Illinois was arrested?"

Well, no. This was last week. I was in Denmark, visiting my daughter, and this was my...
05 December 2008
The war regroups. What if Barack Obama, as he pursues his pragmatic strategy that so far seems to be 10 parts “reassurance” (to the defense and financial...
28 November 2008
Seventeen years and three wars later, the ghosts of Operation Desert Storm — the cancers, the chronic headaches and dizziness, the fibromyalgia, the ALS and so...
22 November 2008
Nobody opines sagely anymore that the races will never get along, calmly ladling conventional certainties over the earnest idealism of civil-rights activists....
13 November 2008
I hope it’s time, if nothing else, to retire cynical bumper stickers, such as: If elections could change anything, they’d be illegal.

The air...

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