Last July, I stepped up on the wing of a Bonanza 4-passenger private plane and gingerly made my way into the small
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(This is an adaptation of a speech given at the Association for Private Enterprise Education meetings, April 16-18, 2023) We find ourselves trying
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My late father was what you might call a secretly brilliant country boy. “Rick” was a big fat man with a salt-and-pepper beard
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