Those Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. Checks and balances worked last week, as the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 decision that surprised pretty much everybody.
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7/3/12
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Hi kids,
It’s me, Great-Grandma Randi, writing to you from 2012.
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6/28/12
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She stood on the beach last week, pale and shivering, this 61-year-old long-distance swimmer whom some have called the greatest athlete in the world.
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6/21/12
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It was Socrates who said, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” but I’m thinking, easy for him to say. He lived 400 years B.C.
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6/14/12
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It is said that there are only two stories: Boy Meets Girl or A Stranger Comes to Town. The runaway best-selling trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” is both of these and then some.
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6/7/12
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Now, suddenly, it’s almost summer. This morning I woke up to the song of birds in the backyard and the buzzing of carpenter bees dive-bombing the wooden decks and railings.
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5/31/12
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According to The Associated Press, some 1,843 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
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5/24/12
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Have you seen it? The cover of Time magazine last week featured a very attractive 26-year-old mom breast-feeding her 35-year-old son. Actually he’s only 3, but he looks way big.
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5/17/12
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I have a friend who, when asked for a donation to charity, says, quite comfortably, “I don’t give to charity.”
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5/10/12
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For many years, since she was a little girl watching me fuss my way around the kitchen, my daughter has coveted my chopping bowl.
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5/3/12
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