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Scotland flirts with independence
Calling Rob Roy: It’s time for your breath test
Scotland, the rugged land that gave the world capitalism and more inventions than you can shake a stick at, is now contemplating rugged independence, the better to achieve a welfare state.
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An entrepreneur solves Obamacare
Once and for all: Health care made easy
I am delighted to present PerryCare.gov, your one-stop shop for Obamacare.
This is the first ever fully functional, 100% ready-to-use Affordable Care Act Information and Election Website, and it's yours exclusively as a reader of Broad Street Review.
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My schoolmate, Shaun Cassidy
Ready for my 15 minutes, Mr. DeMille
When I knew Shaun Cassidy in 1974, he was kind of cute and kind of vapid. But at 16, who wasn't?
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Has Obamacare destroyed Obama?
Obama’s bridge too far
The continuing calamity of the Obamacare rollout tells Americans a great deal—about the intractability of our social problems, the gridlock of our political system and above all the character of Barack Obama himself.
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Giving thanks: Right woman, right time, right place
The other woman who changed my life
She only crossed my path for a moment years ago. But what a difference that moment made to me.
My dinner with Nixon
Foiled by Tricky Dick
As president, Richard Nixon may or may not have messed up the country. But I can attest with certainty that he messed up my romance.
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Is privacy a thing of the past?
Orwell was right after all
Thanks to America’s national security complex as well as Americans’ own giddy eagerness to confess our deepest darkest secrets on YouTube and Facebook, privacy is becoming both a lost right and a lost art. But can freedom survive without it?
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Why I Didn't Vote
Dyspeptic reflections on the electoral process
Election Day is a chance to feel good about America — isn't it?
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How to save America from the Tea Party
An immodest proposal
When the Southern states seceded back in 1860, Lincoln should have let them go. Without the disruptive and destructive South, the rest of the Union would be more stable, more harmonious, and more productive.
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When holidays collide
Here comes Thanksukkah / Hanusgiving!
The holiday season may be even more confusing than usual this year.
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