Legend and spirit of Blackie Campo lives on at Shell Beach marina

"The summer heat is as tough as it always has been. Shrimp are still hard to keep alive. Anglers are thrilled or disappointed, telling the same lies, offering the same excuses.

Life is pretty much the same as it was a year ago at Campo's Marina in Shell Beach. Except for one major difference: Blackie Campo is still gone."

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Lincoln's travels: Retracing his trip to Washington -- and back again

"Maybe it was during the surprise storm in New York City. Or earlier, during the growing light of dawn in Xenia, Ohio. Or on a cold afternoon outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that, in chasing the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, I was engaged in a marathon. It was exhausting."

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Disco tune saves man's life

Debra Bader was taking a walk in the woods with her 53-year-old husband one morning when suddenly he collapsed. At first she thought the situation was hopeless.

"I looked at him and said, 'He's dead,' because he wasn't moving or making any sounds at all," Bader remembers. "But I pulled the cell phone out of his pocket and called 911, and then a public service announcement I'd heard on the radio popped into my head."

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The American Creed: 'We Hold These Truths...'

"The great British intellectual G. K. Chesterton wrote that 'America is the only nation in the world that is founded on [a] creed.'

Think about that for a moment. Other nations were founded on the basis of race, or by the power of kings or emperors who accumulated lands and the peasants who inhabited those lands.

But America was—and is to this day—different. It was founded on a shared belief. Or, as Chesterton said, on a creed."

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Visit to grandkids worth every cent, every minute

"There were all sorts of reasons why flying off to visit my twin grandkids in Arlington, Va., didn’t make sense."

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The Power of an Image: Neda's Legacy

"The unstable political situation in Iran since the presidential election grows worse by the day, as the government has brutalized and arrested thousands of protestors. Could we be witnessing “a new birth of freedom” in Iran—or will the government crackdown ultimately drive the dissenters under cover, as the Chinese government did with the Tiananmen Square protestors?

I pray it signals change, but it’s really too early to tell."

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What is True Freedom?

"We all want freedom: political freedom, intellectual freedom, moral freedom. We want freedom from prejudice, freedom from ignorance, freedom from poverty. And we even search for religious freedom."

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