Video: Interviewing Novelist Dan Brown on The Lost Symbol, Life as an Author, Masons

From Denny: Dan Brown was interviewed by The Today Show host Matt Lauer. These clips were not on the show or the news as they are web exclusives.

Secrets of the Masons as a society:

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Pressure to succeed as an author:

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Dealing with criticism as a famous author:

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Brown discusses main character Robert Langdon in latest book:

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*** Note: Post 5 of the day. Check the other posts for more about The Lost Symbol book, secrets of the Masons and President Obama speaking about women's issues.

Video: Hispanic Sototmayor Finally Confirmed to Highest Court

From Denny: Apologies, everyone, power outage Thursday due to severe thunderstorms and was unable to complete all my posting... meant to get this video up. Had just finished loading the Libations Friday post and zap went the power grid with all that rain.

This Democratic President has done more for women in just six months than the last two Republican Presidents ever did in the past 25 years!