Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/12/05/brief/ Subscribe to The Patriot Post — It's Right and It's FREE: click here . Brief · December 5, 2011 The Foundation "In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself." --Benjamin Franklin Opinion in Brief What makes Harry Potter and Walmart billion dollar brands? People who buy their products. "Joanne Rowling was a welfare mother in Edinburgh, Scotland. All that has changed. As the writer of the 'Harry Potter'...

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