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Mark Bruce, Writer.

Creator of the Minerva James Mysteries

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The Parachute Test

“Muslims are trying to take over this country and destroy it. Nothing you can say will convince me otherwise.” My brother, who calls himself a conservative, told me this on the telephone. “Glenn, Muslims in America have the same religious rights as anyone. That pesky first Amendment thing,” I said. “I don’t care. They don’t…

A Pearl of a Comic

Seventy Percent of lawyers don’t want to be lawyers. I’m sure I’m underestimating. There’s something about being a lawyer that makes you long to be doing something else. In my experience, that “something” usually is other lawyers. Your humble servant, for instance, has been toiling in the vineyards of the law for lo, these forty…

Waiting for Word

There’s a scene in the movie Elizabeth where we see the young princess standing in a large courtyard where she’s being held captive. A lone horseman gallops toward her and she thinks he’s coming to tell her that she’s going to be sent to the Tower of London. Instead, he jumps off his horse and…

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