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Republicans Doom the Republic
Republican leadership Throughout my long adult life, I have never considered myself a political ideologue. Rather, I like to think of...
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Nov 28, 20172 min read
Book(s) Giveaway
Yippee ki-yah ki-yah ki-yo! My new novel is done. Finito. Fini. Das Ende. The End. All that remains is the editing and choosing a final...
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Nov 13, 20172 min read
Spending’s Gotta Give
Governor Rick Scott Last week, the Palm Beach Post carried two stories on the same day. The headlines were: 1) “Scott seeks tax cuts...
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Nov 8, 20173 min read
Grain Ain’t Green
Tampa Bay In 1973, only months after my first wife and I moved from Milwaukee to Tampa, we drove across Tampa Bay one Sunday afternoon to...
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Nov 1, 20173 min read
Flu Shot Flim-Flam
Humana, my health insurer, called the other day with a recorded message urging me to get a flu shot. It ran through a little survey: Did...
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Oct 20, 20173 min read
Levying the syntax
The Grammar Grouch has been so busy lately venting his spleen on our sorry excuse for a president and a GOP Congress afraid to counter...
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Oct 14, 20173 min read
Things Ain’t What They Used To Be
Kathleen Parker Riffling through a haphazard array of papers left unattended on my desk for longer than I care to admit, I didn’t find...
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Oct 9, 20172 min read
History on the Plaza
Aside from the opportunity to hawk my books that the outdoor market at Manalapan has afforded me, it has been it has been a thoroughly...
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Oct 4, 20173 min read
The Real Statin Story
About eight years ago, my then-doctor did a routine blood test to determine my numbers for cholesterol, triglycerides, homocysteine, and...
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Sep 29, 20172 min read
New Story Store
Lake Worth, Florida Attention book lovers and authors! A spiffy new bookstore is set to open in Lake Worth. It’s called Book Cellar, and...
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Sep 25, 20172 min read
Delightful — and Dicey
Costco store, Lantana, Florida When you write a novel based on a significant crime that happened in your area, it leads to encounters and...
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Sep 18, 20174 min read
Wasting Away
Who woulda thunk that a little thing like a communications dilemma wrought by Hurricane Irma could give rise to a discourse on...
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Sep 13, 20173 min read
The Eggo — Our President
E.J. Dionne Jr. Perhaps the most insightful take on the character of Donald Trump that I’ve read was delivered by E.J. Dionne Jr.,...
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Sep 4, 20172 min read
Adverbial Conundrum
Before my novel Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died was published, the outside editor for the publisher evaluated my work...
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Aug 29, 20174 min read
The Big Fat Lie
The You Docs The following is a blog post that I published a year ago. It is every bit as relevant today as it was then. The other day, I...
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Aug 22, 20173 min read
Mona Charen Tells It Like It Is — And Isn’t
Syndicated columnist Mona Charen, a hard-core conservative, is to be congratulated for condemning Republicans for their reticence in...
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Aug 16, 20173 min read
It’s the GOP, Stupid.
Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace on National Public Radio, was interviewing James Patterson Monday evening when I tuned in,...
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Jul 25, 20172 min read
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
It would seem that the “Christian” evangelical leaders of this country are working hard to dissuade anyone of conscience from joining...
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Jul 20, 20173 min read
And I’m Crazy for Loving You, Donald
President Trump It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 comedy film with a title that describes the United States today – except that...
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