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Basura: Crossing the line and the mixing of the races
I’m not old, But I been around a long time. — Delbert McClinton I recently returned a phone call from a woman in Alabama. I’d never met her. Her brother and…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: An inspiring, tragic story of Allen Armintrout
The story of Allen Armintrout is both an inspiration and a tragedy. Allen was born profoundly deaf, but overcame his handicap to live a remarkably normal and meaningful life, marked…
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One Small Voice: Have we lost the ability to communicate?
by Lynn Mandaville My parents fostered a deep love of language in my sisters and me from our earliest years. There was always a dictionary at the dinner table where…
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Army Bob: Gun control about as successful as War on Drugs
Let’s talk gun control. A man wishes to attack his political enemies in Alexandria Va.; he uses two firearms. The over-the-top hate we find in the media is not blamed,…
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Treatment for cancer isn’t the horror show it used to be
by Robert M. Traxler It has been three weeks since the last update on the treatments for what is classified as advanced aggressive prostate cancer. As we Americans age, more…
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Ranger Rick: Remove statues of all slave-holding presidents
Nations don’t like to show their warts, those times in their history they are not particularly proud and want to cover up. The period of the Civil War certainly must…
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The Subterranean: ‘Citizen Jane’ raises debate, intrigue
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Celebration! Cinema Grand Rapids Woodland and VOD **** (out of five) by Walter G. Tarrow One mark of a good documentary is, while delivering…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Election ’86 was an epiphany on racism
The book "Everybody Lies," offers an interesting appraisal of just who we Americans are in this troubled era of political vitriol and division. Author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz declares "Google is a digital…
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One Small Voice: Congressman Scalise may suffer mightily
by Lynn Mandaville A little over 48 hours ago, one James Hodgkinson decided that the appropriate redress of his (unknown to us) grievances was to shoot down Republican congressmen who were…
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Army Bob: Trump was right to pull out of Paris Accords
by Robert M. Traxler President Donald Trump took us out of the Paris Climate Accord; the folks in the "anti-everything our President does" crowd are harping and carping overtime. We…