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Happy Memorial Day
David opened the envelope, and two airline tickets and a picture fell out. He laughed, even though the picture brought back very deep memories. Within a year and a half after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he had found himself as an antiaircraft gunner on …
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The Internet is down, and I don’t know what to do!
Donetta Sterling “Say Anything” Last Friday we here at the office, as well as part of Arkansas, lost Internet services for most of the morning. It was out when I came in to work that morning. The newspaper can still be put together without Internet …
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Trust me, you do believe in gun control
If you ask the typical hyper-political gun owner (and I have … at Thanksgiving dinner), why it’s important to own a gun, they’ll bark about the Constitution. Yes, the Second Amendment: “The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed!” …
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Rob Reiner: As funny as ever
Rob Reiner, in a recent interview with Chris Matthews, showed that while he may have moved on to directing and producing, he’s still a comedic actor at heart. Reiner, best known as Archie’s son-in-law “Meathead” on “All in the Family,” told Matthews — with a …
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Goodbye to another Mayberry pal
I learned recently that another musician friend was called home, Doug Dillard (1937-2012). It has been nearly 50 years since the Darlings crawled up onto Briscoe Darling’s truck and rode down from the hills into Mayberry. With them were sister Charlene (Maggie Peterson) and all …
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Sugar: Does it make you dumb?
“Sugar in the morning Sugar in the evening Sugar at suppertime…” My late father would often burst into those lyrics from the 1958 McGuire Sisters hit “Sugartime.” Little did he know it was a recipe for asking, “Morning — that’s the one where the …
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Hillary speculation won’t die
If Julia Louis-Dreyfus can be “Veep,” then why not Hillary Clinton? The notion has been kicked around in the media for more than a year, and pooh-poohed by both the secretary of state herself and the Obama campaign, but as the 2012 race heats up …
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Judge Isaac Parker – the “hanging judge”
Craig Ogilvie “… the rest is history!” Being tagged with the moniker “hanging judge,” was totally unfair to Judge Isaac Parker. During the years of his service (1875-96), only capital offenses of rape and murder were punishable by death. However, it was not the judge’s …
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State Capitol Week in Review
The national “Click It or Ticket” campaign will be May 21-June 3, when law enforcement officers will be on the lookout for drivers who are not wearing a seat belt. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), last year more than 22,000 Americans …
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Giggling the pounds away
Finally, someone has come up with a weight loss program I can sink my teeth into without guilt. And, I say it’s about time. I can’t speak for anybody else, but I’m fed up with diet programs that simply beat me to death. I’m tired …
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Time brings changes: My history of the farm
It must have been somewhere around the spring of 1948 that my dad, A.A. Heuer, met Mr. Blandford in the post office and asked him if he would like to sell his farm, as his son Don was looking for one. He told my dad …
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Goodnight moon, goodnight America
Addressing Congress on May 25, 1961, President Kennedy challenged America and set a seemingly impossible goal — sending a person to the moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy’s ambitious dream was realized by the Apollo program, and, since that time, manned space exploration …
