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Aaron Stevens will run the Boston Marathon for the sixth time in April, and his fifth as part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team. For each of the past two years, he has raised $16,000 for the cancer center. The effort is personal. Stevens lost a cousin in her 30s to colon cancer, and his father survived grueling treatment for bladder cancer that included a nine-week stay in intensive care. He’s got his two-pronged fundraising strategy down pat—an email list of 500 people get monthly appeals from him, and he can count on at least 100 of those people to...

Ever since Congress voted for the resolution to use military force in Iraq (Public Law 107-243), I've watched in amazement the steady stream of Democratic Congresspeople who voted for this resolution stepping forward vomiting forth rhetorical allegations claiming there was a concerted effort by George W. Bush and those within his administration to intentionally deceive and mislead them into voting for this resolution. Well, I believe the concerted effort to "deceive" and "mislead" is among those rank and file Democratic Congresspeople, who voted for this war with Iraq, in attempting to lead us to believe they were unwitting, uneducated innocent...