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Avoiding Inheritance Horrors Rodger Alan Freidman
Category: Life In America Published: January 2016
"You worried about your children when they were in diapers. You worried about them when they headed off to school, and you still worry about them even though they, too, now have grey hair."
 
Brainstorming Battles Mitchell Rigie , Keith Harmeyer
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2016
"Suspend judgement even if you know, without a doubt, that an idea is bad--really bad, even horrible; let it live, just for a while."
 
Connecting Competence with Confidence Grace Killelea
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2016
"When I walked into a room, I always was waiting for building security to come and haul me away--feeling like a fraud, sure I would be found out…"
 
How the House and Senate Let Themselves Get Hijacked Christopher DeMuth
Category: Law & Justice Published: January 2016
"Restoring Congress to a central position in government clearly will be a heavy lift…"
 
Let the Holy War Begin in Earnest Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: January 2016
"Although our First Amendment protects all in their choice of what to believe and what to profess, it does not protect those who wish to translate their beliefs into acts of terror and conspiracies to commit terror."
 
Let's Right the Ship Julie Miller , Brian Bedford
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2016
"Make 2016 the year you and your employees dedicate yourselves to accountability."
 
Lighting Up the Night Gary Zuercher
Category: Focus Published: January 2016
The Glow of Paris captures all 35 of the French capital's bridges in striking black-and-white photographs.
 
Overcoming Obama's Foreign Policy Missteps Tom Cotton
Category: The World Today Published: January 2016
"[Pres. Barack Obama's] disregard for the Treaty Clause is the height of hubris. It mistakes tunnel vision for principle, closed-mindedness for superior wisdom, and presonal legacy for the vital national interest."
 
Protecting a Presidential Nominee Sue Ann Baker
Category: USA Yesterday Published: January 2016
"Excited to greet well-wishers, [Sen. George McGovern and his wife] moved to the edge of the stage and leaned forward to shake hands. Meanwhile, I was stuck behind. If someone had opened fire,…"
 
Securing the U.S. from Terror Trumps All Other Factors Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Worldview Published: January 2016
"We need to forbid immigration to the U.S. for any person who originally hails from a country in which terrorists recruit, conduct training, manufacture weapons, or perform tactical operations."
 
Stressed Out Laurel Mellin
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2016
"If the brain is…cured of any condition, really cured, normalized, it will be by brain training, not by chemical manipulation."
 
The Addiction to Gambling Is No Fantasy David Sack
Category: Athletic Arena Published: January 2016
"For those considering getting involved with daily fantasy sports, keep this in mind: playing undoubtedly will be just as exciting and easy as its backers advertise but, just as with other forms of gambling, stopping can be difficult."
 
The Left's Sorry Response to San Bernadino Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2016
"People do not become 'radicalized' any more than they become 'alcohol-ized' by someone else's behavior. They choose it--as [conservatives] angrily would assert in response to [liberals'] excuse-making obfuscation."
 
The Power of the Almighty "C" Jim Penman
Category: Religion Published: January 2016
"Religious teachings not only help people to cooperate better in large groups, they create the very temperament that is needed if civilization is to flourish."
 
The Silencing Raymond L. Fischer
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2016
"The liberal left has abandoned the open-mindedness and reason of liberalism for prejudice, ideological conformity, and marginalization for opposing thoughts."
 
The Skinny on Skin Care Chris Gibson
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2016
"While most of us know how to reach for products that are naturally based, product labels can be deceiving. Natural, as it turns out, is not always so."
 
The Value of a Dollar Gregory Downing
Category: Life In America Published: January 2016
"How much money you make and how much 'stuff' kids get is far less important than making sure everyone is contributing to the family, and that children are learning the value of giving back to others and to society."
 
True Islam Campaign Takes Flight Qasim Rashid
Category: Worldview Published: January 2016
"Now, more than ever, is our opportunity to stand together as brothers, human beings, Muslims, and Americans."
 
Trying to Understand Putin and Obama Frank V. Vernuccio Jr.
Category: The World Today Published: January 2016
The Russian president "seeks to make his nation the world's preeminent military power," while his American counterpart "almost immediately upon taking office…began alienating U.S. allies."
 
You Are not a Smaller, Less-Hairy Man Laura Doyle
Category: Psychology Published: January 2016
"Whe I talk about feminine gifts, I want to be clear that I am not talking about manipulation or taking advantage of anybody. Those are not qualities that anyone wants in a partner."