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If I think of those days when the nation was split, I can’t help but hear “Ashokan Farewell,” the melancholy, modern-day fiddle tune that plays over and over again as a camera pans in and out on old grainy pictures from the 1860s. We can never really feel what it was like when North and South fought. But we can peer back through a narrow ... [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor: I have been thinking a lot about health care in this country, not because I am sick, but because I am healthy, and that seems to be unusual in this day and age. Drug companies, doctors, supplement manufacturers, insurance companies, and advertising executives all seem determined to convince me that I am too fat, too thin, too old, ... [Full Story »] 

A few days ago, TV commentator Bill O’Reilly said that he has a Master’s degree from Harvard University, but that he still cannot understand the Health Care bill. (H. R. 3200) Well, I am a quasi-literate, half-smart, semi-self educated Georgia redneck and I cannot understand it either. I downloaded the document, all 1,017 pages of it, and ... [Full Story »]