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Dec 29, 20151 min read
Enormous Temperature Increase
Check out this story about a massive storm that’s supposed to be developing in the North Atlantic, which is supposed to raise the...
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Dec 26, 20151 min read
The Odd Yet Compatible Couple, Ryan and Rand
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives, presides over a Republican majority that...
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Dec 21, 20151 min read
Signing Signs
Attention authors! If you want the red carpet treatment for you and your book, you can’t do better than the North Palm Beach Public...
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Dec 16, 20151 min read
You Can Always Go to the Library
Petula Clark’s 1964 hit song Downtown had the wrong idea. Sure, “When you’re alone and life is At 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, for example,...
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Dec 13, 20153 min read
Sober reflection on Islamic terrorism
Mona Charen I’m about as big a fan of syndicated columnist Mona Charen as I am of Donald Trump – which is to say, not so much. However,...
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Dec 7, 20152 min read
Jazz Parts Clouds at Sunset Cocktail Lounge
Plans by the city of West Palm Beach to buy the venerable Sunset Cocktail Lounge and convert it into the centerpiece of a “jazz...
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Dec 4, 20152 min read
Don’t Mess With Matthews, Donald
Three words are found in The Donald’s last name: Trump, rump and ump. All spell “ass.” If Donald Trump were umping battles in the...
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Nov 29, 20153 min read
Conservative Pundits, Candidates on Different Refugee Page
Michael Gerson When conservative pundits take issue with Republican politicians and their followers on whether Muslims in the United...
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Nov 17, 20152 min read
Word waste
Yogi Berra Judged by today’s linguistic milieu, Yogi Berra’s verbal foibles were not all that uncommon. The words and phrases we hear and...
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Nov 13, 20155 min read
What you don’t know about vaccinations
Dr. David Brownstein The medical establishment’s propaganda about the safety and benefits of vaccinations is relentless. And it’s...
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Nov 6, 20152 min read
Body and Soul
For the first second time in probably 37 years, I stepped into the Riviera Beach Library on Thursday evening – and remembered it like it...
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Nov 2, 20152 min read
Three-Ring Signing
A jazz musician I know used to introduce guests playing with his combo by saying, “I’ve known a lot of piano players (or drummers, or...
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Oct 31, 20154 min read
A Big Fat Fallacy
The Palm Beach Post’s special section on healthful eating for seniors in Thursday’s paper got it partly right, but other morsels of...
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Oct 29, 20151 min read
No no, they can’t take that away from me …
A big thanks to the Lake Worth Rotary Club for its abundant hospitality and attentive audience for my author At least they can’t stop me...
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Oct 28, 20153 min read
This is progress?
Andy Rooney John L. Lewis I’m having an Andy Rooney moment. You know, the dyspeptic guy who for 33 years closed out each CBS’ 60 Minutes...
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Oct 22, 20151 min read
Hillary wins, GOP loses
Hillary Clinton The House Benghazi Committee grilled Hillary Clinton for 11 hours, minus two breaks, today with the intention, as the...
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Oct 20, 20152 min read
Jazz vs. Politics
Igor Butman The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. That is, they came – not with seven machine guns in a re-enactment of the...
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Oct 16, 20153 min read
GMO, glyphosate and Green: Gee whiz!
Green isn’t green. Alex Green, the chief analyst for the Oxford Club investment newsletter service, defends the Monsanto corporation in...
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Oct 11, 20151 min read
FREE book today
A belated notice that the Kindle version of my novel MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died is available for FREE very...
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Oct 10, 20152 min read
Great jazz — no jive
Nicky Orta Wow, what a performance Friday evening at the recently reopened Bamboo Room in downtown Lake Worth! Talented keyboard player...
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