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Basura: The Beach Doctor conquers sea urchin bites
“Help! I need somebody! Help, not just anybody. Won’t you please, please, help me?” — The Beatles, 1965 My uncle, a Korean War vet, asked me the other day if…
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Army Bob: Rep. Adam Schiff has become a media deity
by Robert M. Traxler In researching this column, I Googled Representative Adam Bennet Schiff, (D-Ca.) and got page after page of hero worship by the media; to sum up the…
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Barry Hastings: Why I’m voting for Mike Bloomberg
I plan to vote for Mike Bloomberg in the primary because- he's taking the fight to the madman. Every one of his public statements amounts to a direct assault on the record of…
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Ranger Rick: Freedom is never an option in socialism
People have better everything; more money, better health, better housing, more education and live longer now than ever, but are unhappier than any time since data collection began, especially young…
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One Small Voice: Will GOP senators stand up to a bully?
by Lynn Mandaville Two weeks ago, the pastor of our new church began a series on courage. To capture the imaginations of the congregation he began with a story about…
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Yes It’s True: The climate change debate framed 3 ways
“Why does the sun keep on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don’t they know it’s the end of the world? ‘Cause you don’t love me any more.”…
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Army Bob: Sanders is 2020 Democratic Donald Trump
No one will deny the existence in the Republican Party of “Never Trumpers,” folks like Senator Romney and many others. Why do they exist? Never Trumpers are the establishment ingrained…
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Basura: We’ll see more ‘All the President’s Men’ soon
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.” — James Russell Lowell, 1871 President Donald Trump has added two defense lawyers to his team as he faces the senate…
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Ranger Rick: Always tracking, always alerting, always hyping
In the old days of three TV stations (WKZO, WOOD, WZZM) the talking heads of weather forecasting would come on and tell us of the changing weather. When snow was…
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Yes It’s True: Remembering Dr. King is complicated
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have had a profound appreciation…