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Rob Port November 26, 2015 0

I’ve got a friend who has virtually no muscle control. He has Huntington’s disease, a genetic ailment that has affected...

Rob Port November 19, 2015 0

I was a boy of 10 when radios flashed the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Although my...

Rob Port November 13, 2015 0

A Wall Street Journal story, “The poverty cure: Get married” caught my eye last week. The thesis was that poverty...

Rob Port October 30, 2015 0

As a political junkie I’ve always enjoyed talking politics with both Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. I guess that’s...

Rob Port October 22, 2015 0

I’ve never sampled drugs, didn’t like booze, and shook all my lust for gambling in my youth. But that doesn’t...

Rob Port October 16, 2015 0

I’ve gone to more funerals than I could possibly count. You do that more and more as you age. Saying...

Rob Port October 8, 2015 0

Every day there is some kind of report in our news, detailing a new finding, the result of another survey...

Rob Port September 23, 2015 0

It was somewhat of a surprise for me to discover how much I enjoyed the presidential debate last week. I’ve...

Rob Port September 16, 2015 0

What would our founding fathers think . . . or say? We hear that uttered or printed time and again,...

Rob Port September 9, 2015 0

When I was young I detested the wind. Perhaps the dust is a better word. In the days of my...