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George McGovern
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George McGovern, senator from South Dakota from 1962 to 1980 and Democratic candidate for President in 1972, is the author of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time (Simon & Schuster).

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How Lincoln Speaks to Us Today

Posted February 12, 2009 | 10:06 AM (EST)

Abraham Lincoln, whose two hundredth birthday we observe today, was our greatest president and a keen student of political expression. Though his personal hero was George Washington, he also had a high regard for Thomas Jefferson. "I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied...

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Hey Baby Boomers -- Welcome to the Golden Years!

Posted March 7, 2006 | 08:03 PM (EST)

If life is what each of us holds dear, then for most people extending life is a plus, not a minus. And so it is for the rest of society that stands to gain from the contributions of the older generation.

How many children and youth have had their lives...

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Social Security -- It Just Ain't Broke, So Don't Try and Fix It

Posted February 27, 2006 | 07:54 PM (EST)

"It ain't what people don't know that's so dangerous," Will Rogers once famously remarked, "it's what people know -- that just ain't so." The administration of the younger Bush does its best to see that people "don't know" many things. About Social Security, though, Bush and those in his administration...

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Gene McCarthy

Posted December 15, 2005 | 06:29 PM (EST)

Gene McCarthy was a pure original. No other senator had the combination of endowments Gene possessed: He was a philosopher, a skilled 6' 4" baseball and hockey player, a visionary statesman, a moralist, an eloquent orator and graceful poet with a mastery of English diction and a wit...

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