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Yes It Is, It’s True: I met Tea Party forerunner in 1980
Though I didn't know it at the time, my first encounter with what later would evolve into the Tea Party occurred during my first year as an editor, in 1980.…
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Army Bob: Get to know the weapons you want to ban
by Robert M. Traxler To quote a friend of mine, “No one should be allowed to own an AK-47.” This begs the question, what is an AK-47? Ask most folks…
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The Subterranean: Two Damon films don’t meet expectations
“I find my life is easier the lower I keep my expectations.” — Bill Watterson (cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes by Walter G. Tarrow (Reviews of Suburbicon and Downsizing) Both ** out…
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Basura: How about allowing Emotional Support Guns?
"Happiness is a Warm Gun" — The Beatles I noticed a lot of dogs Saturday while flying home from Mexico. These weren’t service animals, leader dogs for the blind, for…
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Ranger Rick: Ban ‘Gun-Free Zones’ instead of guns
This is reality. This is in your face. This is how it is. Everywhere there is a “Gun Free Zone” sign, take it down, remove it NOW! You are encouraging…
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Will we let term-limited politicians hook us again?
"The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it." — Rodney Dangerfield Perhaps the three most consequential political lies perpetrated on and believed by…
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One Small Voice: Who are heroes, cowards in shootings?
by Lynn Mandaville A good guy with a gun. A bad guy with a gun. What do they have in common? A human being. And a lethal weapon. How shall…
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Army Bob: Free and fair trade best for American worker
Trade, free or fair, it depends on whether you are a supporter of President Donald Trump. President Trump has managed to do the impossible — to get the left and…
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Ranger Rick: In crazy California, is it the last straw?
You’re driving across the Mojave Desert on Highway 40 and stop at a café in Barstow. You order a burger, fries and soft drink and it arrives at your table.…
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One Small Voice: Parents’ gift to me was tolerance
by Lynn Mandaville One of the many, many things that grabbed my interest this week was a posting about Morgan Roof, sister of mass murderer Dylann Roof. (Dylann was responsible…