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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 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 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 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 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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Sep 24, 20152 min read
Car-lyar Fiorina the Fibber
Mona Charen Paul Krugman and Mona Charen, two syndicated columnists. A recent column by each reminds me of a song: “What a difference a...
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Sep 18, 20154 min read
Bernie and Rachel Trumped
Donald Trump I am going to do something I would never have dreamed of doing, to wit, defend Donald Trump and two other Republican...
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Sep 9, 20152 min read
Green Is Good (take that, Gordon Gekko)
General Mills headquarters near Minneapolis The newspaper headline read: GENERAL MILLS TACKLES GAS EMISSIONS. Hmmm, I thought, the...
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Sep 1, 20153 min read
A Warm Welcome to Alaska
If this keeps up, it won’t be too long before billboards, websites and the media will be running ads that read something like, “Come to...
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Aug 24, 20153 min read
Florida Government in the Dark
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Before Republican Rick Scott ran for governor of Florida the first time, in 2010, the voters knew he was a crook:...
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Aug 13, 20153 min read
Who guards the Fox house?
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly It was quite a matchup in the Republican presidential debate last week, Donald Trump versus Fox News’ Megyn Kelly....
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Aug 8, 20154 min read
Bureau-crazy
It was enough to turn a liberal into a conservative. I just had an experience with government bureaucracy that made me wonder if the...
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Jul 28, 20154 min read
Cop Blanche
A few days ago, the sheriff of Palm Beach County in southeast Florida expressed defiance over criticism arising from a joint media...
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