The holiday season brings with it a mixed bag of emotions and experiences. When we are surrounded by family and friends, have resources to buy gifts for those we love, and have time to enjoy the extra work that holidays entail, it can be a great…
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Does Size Matter?
Back in the sixties, when my generation was discovering sex (and there was lots of media attention being paid to the "sexual revolution") I recall a spate of books and articles assuring men who were concerned about their "endownments" that size was…
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Defining “Big” Government
It is fashionable these days for candidates of every party and persuasion to laud smaller government, but smaller is not necessarily less bossy. The issue is less the size and cost of government — important as that is — but how intrusive it shall be
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The Way We Weren’t
There has been a lot written recently about cases of "suppressed memory syndrome," involving childhood incidents so hurtful or frightening that the person suppresses all memory of them, only to recall them years later. There is bitter debate…
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A Nice Republican Girl
As many of you know, I recently wrote a book called "What’s a Nice Republican Girl Like Me Doing at the ACLU?" I wrote it for three basic reasons: to explain the ACLU to Republicans, to explain Republicans (or…
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