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Letters to the editor
HB 1929 not good for lakes, reservoirs Dear Editor, I read with great interest the article in Monday’s paper about West Magnet’s Stream Team. Those students are to be highly commended for their work and leadership in stream conservation. We need monitoring of streams like Poke …
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Springtime in Washington, D.C.
Ah, springtime has arrived in Washington, D.C. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is under way. The cherry trees, 3,700 of them given to America by the Japanese in 1912, are in full bloom. One incident involving the trees reminds me why Americans are so wary …
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Concentration camps and abortion clinics
On a cold and snowy day in January a few years ago, I took a guided tour through the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. Charcoal-colored skies paired with a blanket of freshly fallen snow offered a monochromatic glimpse of what life must have been like …
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Why isn’t there a war on Easter?
Why haven’t these clever secularists tried to take over Easter just like they’ve allegedly hijacked Christmas? What’s taking them so long? Bill O’Reilly deciphered the secret scheme to de-Christian Christmas. On his Christmastime program last year he said, “I absolutely agree 100 percent that the …
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The GOP Autopsy
Normally you don’t expect to see the words “Republicans” and “introspection” right next to each other. Like supermodel and barbecue. Physicist and polka. Gazelle and ophthalmology. You catch my drift. But that’s exactly what happened last week, when the Republican Party released a 100-page report …
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Obamacare is crumbling
Obamacare is falling apart before our eyes. The long-term care insurance program known as the CLASS ACT was deemed financially unworkable and shut down by the administration’s own actuaries. Taxpayer-funded health care cooperatives never got off the ground and were shut down in the fiscal …
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Hulk, Sting to jump into ring Writer’s inner-child excited
When I heard that Hulk Hogan and Sting were coming to the Convocation Center at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro this Thursday, the 8-year-old in me couldn’t help but be excited. As a youngster I loved wrestling, watching it and “becoming” both characters when my …
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Horse racing was an early sport
Prior to the Civil War, virtually every Arkansas town, with over 500 citizens, had a racetrack. Additionally, almost every plantation had a private track and breeding stock. During the 1800s, the very spot where Oaklawn Park sits today in Hot Springs was a open field …
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Walking to work? Good for you!
While waiting at a stoplight the other day a man passed in front of me in those tall rubber boots like many wear who work in the chicken plants. He glanced at me and then put his head down. I wanted to roll my window …
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Being prepared is always a good idea
“Be prepared.” That’s a motto I heard, once, somewhere. I wasn’t all that prepared when I agreed to join up with the Boy Scouts, along about 1967, after Steve Massey talked me into going on a camping trip with Jack Stevenson’s troop. Oh, sure, Massey …
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Why can’t every day be like Easter?
Although it usually gets overshadowed by “Blue Christmas” in yuletide radio rotation, I still enjoy the Elvis Presley version of “Why Can’t Every Day Be Like Christmas?” Fans of the scripture found in John 3:16 might well ask “Why Can’t Every Day Be Like Easter?” …
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Parenting licenses should be required
It’s funny how something small and seemingly insignificant can set you off sometimes. I was loading groceries into my car last week when I heard a couple screaming at each other. They were standing next to their car and arguing over who would deal with …
