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Daniel Lee

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Covers:  Political philosophy, travel, outdoor sports, anything interesting.
Doesn't Cover: Chef contests. Pediatric beauty contests. Pet parades. (Actually, pet parades may be negotiable.) Ice fishing. Never again.
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Opinion | Sports Leagues and TV Networks Like the Gambling Odds

Opinion | Sports Leagues and TV Networks Like the Gambling Odds

The Wall Street Journal — On the eve of the Super Bowl, a meditation on the new and dangerous phenomenon of online sports gambling.
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Opinion | In the Civil War Graveyard, Every Headstone Tells a Story

Opinion | In the Civil War Graveyard, Every Headstone Tells a Story

The Wall Street Journal — Princeton, Ind. -- Near the YMCA's Camp Carson here in southwest Indiana, there is a tiny abandoned cemetery hidden beyond a steep, weedy road cut. Back in the day, it was a great place for scary campouts.
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Opinion | You Can Play Through History on Michigan's Mackinac Island

Opinion | You Can Play Through History on Michigan's Mackinac Island

The Wall Street Journal — Mackinac Island, Mich.-- Play the 123-year-old Wawashkamo Golf Course on Michigan's Mackinac Island and you won't soon forget it, not least because there's a cannon aiming down the first fairway from the tee box.
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Opinion | Submission Is on Exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Opinion | Submission Is on Exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

The Wall Street Journal — Indianapolis -- "Battle Between Carnival and Lent" is a 17th-century oil painting by Jan Miense Molenaer in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Carnival is personified by Dutch peasants who wield a large sausage, skewered birds, a beer tankard, and assorted cooking implements as weapons," the museum says of the intentionally ridiculous scene.
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A 'School Shooting' With a Pellet Gun

A 'School Shooting' With a Pellet Gun

The Wall Street Journal — I spent five years as an emergency medical technician and saw the result of more than one shooting up close. Every case horrifies in its own way, and each has its own tangle of causes. But school shootings are the most painful.
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We Need Guns Before the Cops Arrive

We Need Guns Before the Cops Arrive

The Wall Street Journal — The attack on congressmen last week illustrates the realities of sudden violence. There's a saying among gun-carry permit advocates: "When seconds count, police are minutes away." That was not the case last week but only because Majority Whip Steve Scalise's Capitol Police detail was on hand and courageously engaged the shooter.
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Opinion | At a Georgia Graveyard, Reflections on a Divided Nation

Opinion | At a Georgia Graveyard, Reflections on a Divided Nation

The Wall Street Journal — Sylvester Cemetery clings to a steep, magnolia- and oak-covered hillside east of downtown Atlanta, on ground where Federal and Confederate troops fought a desperate battle in the last summer of the Civil War, 156 years ago this week. The oldest graves, some from before the war, are at the peak of the hill. They belong to my family, whose property played a crucial role in the battle.
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Our American family - my family - survived one Civil War. Can we make it through another?

Our American family - my family - survived one Civil War. Can we make it through another?

USA Today — My maternal great-great grandfather finished the Civil War at Hart Island Prisoner of War camp, just off New York City in Long Island Sound. Confederate Army Private John Edward Jackson was sick, wounded, and a long way from his home in Petersburg, Virginia.
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It was mere chance that tragedy struck Florida and not here in Indiana

It was mere chance that tragedy struck Florida and not here in Indiana

USA Today — As despairing parents in Parkland, Florida waited last Wednesday night for news of children still missing after yet another school shooting rampage, our high school auditorium in Greenwood, Indiana, was filling with parents arriving for the choir's winter concert.
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The Golem of Fifth Avenue

The Golem of Fifth Avenue

The Wall Street Journal — Donald Trump 's inauguration next Friday will be tough for the elites in Washington and Hollywood who have mocked him for years. Yet it should please the millions of working-class and flyover-state Americans who, fed up with the same condescension, gave Mr. Trump his unexpected victory.
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The hope of audacity in Indiana | CNN

The hope of audacity in Indiana | CNN

CNN — Donald Trump's appeal to fed up ordinary people.
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Opinion | Could the Internet Power a Small-Town Renaissance?

Opinion | Could the Internet Power a Small-Town Renaissance?

The Wall Street Journal — Indianapolis This time of year, the late-night sky southeast of the city sparkles with what looks like a long line of evening stars: transport jets carrying thousands of boxes of online purchases to the FedEx hub at Indianapolis International Airport. They rumble overhead at 90-second intervals, wingtip navigation lights blinking in festive red and green.
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The Best Way to Learn Gun Safety Is With Real Guns

The Best Way to Learn Gun Safety Is With Real Guns

The Wall Street Journal — Learning to handle firearms responsibly and safely is a great way to channel young men and boys' aggressive impulses, something we desperately need today.
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Opinion | What the other Washington thinks of President Trump

Opinion | What the other Washington thinks of President Trump

Washington Post Opinions — Washington, Ind. -- This city of 11,000, nestled among a handful of low hills rising from table-flat Hoosier farm fields, is 680 miles from the other Washington, but the cultural and political divide may be even greater than the geographical distance.
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A Delicious Grind at Indianapolis' Goose the Market

A Delicious Grind at Indianapolis' Goose the Market

Midwest Living — I'm forearm deep in 20 pounds of ground pork, folding in thick seams of salt, nutmeg, ginger and ground cinnamon. Neither this breakfast sausage nor my fingers move easily in this production room, cooled to a protein-binding 40 degrees. Sausage making is vigorous work, and I quickly learn it's more an art form than a science.
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Return of the Mississippi River Cruise

Return of the Mississippi River Cruise

Midwest Living — Even by the sedate standards of steamboat travel, we're crawling-15 feet in 30 minutes. Kibitzing passengers crowd the deck as the imposing American Queen stern-wheeler, her pennants and banners aflutter, travels those 15 feet-straight down. No need for life jackets though. We're just changing river levels at Lock No.
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Summer Escapes along Michigan's Southwest Shore

Summer Escapes along Michigan's Southwest Shore

Midwest Living — At St. Joseph's Silver Beach County Park, water and sand have to compete for attention. In the splash park, kids drench one another with water cannons. Walkers stop to consider modern art at the sand's edge. And on a vintage carousel, laughing riders cling to fanciful hand-carved mounts.
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Swill the Beans on a Caffeine Crawl

Swill the Beans on a Caffeine Crawl

Midwest Living — It's like a pilgrimage for java lovers. And in a twist on the usual tour de bars, every stop in The Lab 5702's Caffeine Crawl provides a perk-me-up for the next leg of the journey. The Kansas City-based company offers its tours in six Midwestern cities, including Indianapolis, Madison and Milwaukee.
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What If The Media Covered The War On Poverty Like It Did Vietnam?

What If The Media Covered The War On Poverty Like It Did Vietnam?

The Federalist — Imagine if the result in our struggle to end poverty-like the Vietnam War, in which the goal posts always seem to be moving-was shown to be as ineffective.
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Silence Would Be Anything But Golden For President Trump

Silence Would Be Anything But Golden For President Trump

The Federalist — President Trump speaks fluent Garble, but somehow it works. It shows he needn't turn into a Calvin Coolidge to be effective.
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