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Buechner, Robert Anton Age 83, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in Florida after a long battle with cancer. Bob was born in Cleveland, Ohio

Sara McLanahan, a prominent sociologist whose work played a foundational role in the understanding of single parents and their children, died of cancer Dec. 31. She was 81.

politician since ronald reagan. i was very young then and, wow, he was inspiring. and every once in a while you come along, and a politician speaks the truth in a way no other politician had the courage to do. chris christie did that, ronald reagan did that so much bolder and without apology, the way ronald reagan talked about the soviet union and the evil empire. chris christie talks about the government unions and the teachers' unions that way. and i don't even think ronald reagan would have talked about teachers' unions the way christy does. no republican could talk about these go...

i think david crockett was more genuine than the down home candidates we have today. i will tell you this. he was a lot brighter. [applause] i think he would probably be astounded by the dumbing down of the country because he was always trying to improve himself. we found his copy of metamorphosis. this guy who has been beat -- portrayed as a bumpkin. there was something really very compelling about this man. that is what drew me to him. all of those qualities i liked in davy crockett high finance not an iota of them in the candidates that we have today. not an iota. but you have to ...

>> in the context of my own book, sort of politically correct speech codes and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemens wrote it with the power of that word, "intended." so i wanted to just take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like. and so i picked up that book. and, again, that's sitting on my desk. um, and then there are two books, i'm trying to remember their names, and it's such an opportunity to help out authors that i'm reading. but one is a book by lawrence block who's a mystery writer. and i think it's called "a drop of the...