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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Seventy Years Ago: Thirty-One Knot Burke

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Thanksgiving eve, 1943, Admiral Halsey ordered Captain Arleigh Burke, Commander Destroyer Squadron 23, with five Fletcher class destroyers, ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

John Warner Cox: August 13, 1941 - November 26, 2013

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My brother John fought pancreatic cancer for nearly three years. He taught us how to live through such a time. How to seize the day for what...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Affordable Care Act - Medicaid

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In a recent New York Times op-ed piece, columnist Timothy Egan describes the refusal to expand Medicaid as the South's new "lost ca...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Seventy Years Ago: At Sea Off Tarawa - USS Liscome Bay

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From initial action until the end of the battle, it took America's forces 76 hours to conquer the tiny but well-fortified island of Beti...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Seventy Years Ago: 20-22 November 1943 - Marines On Tarawa

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The assault on the island of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, began November 20. Betio, in the Gilberts, was to be a stepping stone to the Marianas, fro...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Mark Thoma Reminds Us Of The State Of The Labor Market

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We have a lot of headline activity every time the "unemployment rate" goes up or down. But what matters much more is the overall...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Difficult Is Done At Once; The Impossible Takes A Bit Longer

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Some say it was the US Army Corps of Engineers during World War II who adopted the slogan, "the difficult is done at once - the impossi...

Life Is Short But Art Is Long

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Thomas Jefferson Scott, artist, architect and designer, was fond of quoting Hippocrates' observation that life is short but art is long....
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