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There’s a civil war going on among Democrats in the so-called heartland. Here in the Midwest, Democrats agree on most things. We were thrilled to usher in the first African-American president. We are largely pro-choice, we’re OK with gay marriage, and we hate Rush Limbaugh with the passion of 10,000 suns. But when it comes [...]

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There’s an elephant in the health care debate room. Make that two elephants. Come with me in the way-back machine to the year 1900, when ladies wore ankle-length dresses and men rode horses into town. Let’s say we’re on Main Street somewhere. A neighbor asks a farmer about his mother, and he replies, “She took [...]

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We’ve been meeting as a group for 18 months now — writers, lawyers, editors, a doctor, a gallery owner, a business executive and a Navy man turned truck driver. We’re mostly Midwesterners, and politically we mostly lean liberal. Once a month, we have dinner and discuss the “big questions” of life. You could call it [...]

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