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Mitt Romney stopped off in Colorado last week to talk about getting the economy going again and the importance of affordable domestic energy production in his plans to make that happen. He made himself available to some members of the media, providing local reporters with an increasingly rare opportunity to spend a moment with the man who may well be the next President of the United States. 

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In his foxhole on Iwo Jima, he was considered just another worthless black man in a lily-white Navy.

Joseph LaNier, II wore a United States Navy uniform, but as he was in his native rural Columbus, Mississippi, he was segregated. Even in war.

In 1945, Joe became a Navy Seabee in one of the first black Seabee units in U.S. history. He joined the service to help his family out of poverty. 

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As a life-long Catholic, the often blind loyalty of many in my faith to the Democrat Party has befuddled me for years. Regardless of the promotion of a social agenda at odds with the Doctrinal Principles of the Church, Catholics have continued to overwhelmingly support Democrat candidates. Even Barack Obama -- "the most antilife presidential candidate ever" -- got 54% of the Catholic vote in 2008. That may be about to change. 

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Rick Reilly is not only "one of the funniest humans on the planet," he's one of the most articulate and insightful. Rick grew up not far from me in Boulder, Colorado, where he started his extremely successful career as a sports journalist. Though I never met Rick until we were both considerably older and more traveled, I did get to know his wonderful, proud father. When I did finally met Rick, I could tell that the apple didn't fall far from the tree, as they say. He came from good stock. 

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Rather than a mere Tip-of-the-Hat this month, we probably should be awarding a Medal of Honor to Catherine Anthony Adair. Since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision the debate over abortion has raged on in America. Well beyond 50 million abortions have been performed, and while there has been some decline in the annual totals over the last decade, about 1.2 million reported abortions still occur every year in the U.S. 

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President Obama has been skirting around the nation pleading "Pass my bill;" a reference to his half-trillion son-of-stimulus spending whim that has gotten no traction on Capitol Hill and been greeted with yawns or worse in the media. Even his handpicked economic expert, Mark Zandi, had to revise his original enthusiasm for the newest Keynesian plan after learning of Obama's $1.5 trillion in new taxes to "pay for" all the additional spending. Zandi's sheepish revised analysis said that within a year, Obama's new "jobs bill" would actually become a "drag on the economy." 

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It is that time of year when the last of the harvest is being completed by America's farmers. Soon, farm families and the rest of the nation will pause to once again give thanks.

Not so very long ago, a majority of the population was engaged in providing the food to sustain their immediate families and the rest of the nation. The first Americans were largely a nation of farmers. Today, less than 1 percent of the population lists farming as their occupation according to government statistics. Yet, this small group of hard working people provides an unprecedented abundance for the other 99 percent – and much of the rest of the world, as well. 

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Whether we are trying to board a plane or open a checking account, we have all endured aggravation directly connected to the efforts to thwart terrorism. For whatever grief we attach to it, there is also some good news. Domestic terrorist attacks have fallen by 61% since 9/11, and fatality rates per attack have been reduced by almost half. 

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I had the privilege of visiting Iraq twice, and also meeting some of our nation's wounded warriors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. I know from firsthand experience of the great patriotism that burns as brightly in the hearts of today's military personnel as ever in our nation's history. So, whenever I see a story about our active duty men and women or retired veterans, I'm immediately captivated, but one recently especially caught my attention. 

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