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The Ron Paul Barbecue Report
Photos and video from the Aug. 9 birthday bash in Lake Jackson, Texas, where the libertarian hero was celebrated, and loved on, by his family, friends…
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Happy Birthday, Ron Paul -- in advance
The libertarian Republican who spent his political career trying to get his party to keep America out of foreign wars, stay out of people's private…
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Ann Coulter, America's hottest tele-pundit
In 2002 I got the brassy conservative bomb-thrower to do a Q&A 'interview.' Instead of talking to her, I emailed her a bunch of softball questions that…
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Talking trash about Tina Brown's baby
It was nice to be paid, modestly, for getting to throw spitballs at NY editor Tina Brown, who didn't invite us Flyover Country nobodies to Talk…
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In defense of Uber, again
Substack superstar Matthew Yglesias has written "Ride-sharing apps are good, actually," which is something I cried 10 years ago in as many places as…
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Traveling without Charley -- Maine
In 2010 while I retraced the 10,000-mile route John Steinbeck took in 1960 and turned into 'Travels With Charley,' I wrote seven Sunday travel articles…
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'The Psychology of Romantic Love'
In 1980 I wrote this review of Nathaniel Branden's book for the LA Times and it was carried around the USA by the Times News Wire. This is from the…
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July 2025

1992 -- Saving major league baseball
Sports Illustrated futurist Steve Wulf's ideas to save the MLB: cut the schedule, add inter-league games, play more day games, enlarge the strike zone…
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The Nation looked to the future -- and was grouchy
The leftwing emeritus of magazines said globalization was going to bring injustice, unrest and poverty. My weekly take on America's news, culture and…
A dream to save Social Security
A smart guy said we could create 100 million millionaires by forcing the feds to save SS taxes, not spend them. My weekly take on America's news…
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Jefferson travelnomics
American Heritage and how Thomas Jefferson invented the working summer vacation. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from exactly 31…
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A civil rights lawyer
Tom Kerr Jr. wasn't a crook, a commie or a Nazi, but the FBI kept a 44-page file on him starting in 1948. A 'Close Encounter' with an anti-war warrior…
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