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Forget Spain and the World Cup, forget a pair of Yankees-Dodgers classics.<\/p>\n

Forget, too, the fact that my son this weekend increased his baseball winning streak to five games, the last four in four different states.<\/p>\n

For all the trivial things in the world there is this one big thing: the potential for permanent Daylight Savings Time in this beautiful nation of ours.<\/p>\n

Yes, yes, we’ve been close before, and recent steps towards such are only parts of the battle, but this offer<\/a> still stands: undying political devotion to the party that gets it done.<\/p>\n

It’s on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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