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Yes It Is, It’s True: We’re going there in a handbasket

It wasn’t just because Earth Day (April 22) was approaching that I watched the excellent PBS documentary about Rachel Carson, author of the ground-breaking “Silent Spring.” It was because I…

Editor April 20, 2017

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Ranger Rick: Mrs. Clinton needs to retire from public life

We all have endured the long and hard fought presidential election in 2016. After such turmoil, you would think the newly elected president and the loser would be in two…

Editor April 18, 2017

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Barry Hastings: Trump distraction and the Coast Guard

By Barry Hastings The Donald's recent cruise missile attack on Assad's military airbase in Syria was nothing more (or less) than another attempt to distract Americans from his administration's "Russian…

Editor April 16, 2017

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Basura: Is President Donald Trump suffering from illness?

“All will be revealed.” — Anon. What’s going on with Donald Trump? He seems to lack a consistent point of view. In the last few days he’s reversed himself (walked…

Editor April 15, 2017

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Army Bob: Truth indeed is a casualty of civil wars

Sarin gas was used in the Syrian civil war. As our own civil war will attest, civil wars are the most vicious. In ours, 2% of the entire nation died,…

Editor April 14, 2017

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Ranger Rick: The musings of a right-wing deplorable

There are several things that bother me, and should you, in terms of judicial confirmation,education and local government. • Judicial – The senate confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch has been…

Editor April 11, 2017

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Army Bob: Let’s legalize, tax and regulate marijuana

Let’s talk about the use of medical marijuana. The American Cancer Society reports, “Smoked marijuana delivers THC and other cannabinoids to the body, but it also delivers harmful substances to…

Editor April 6, 2017

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Yes It Is, It’s True: A look at ‘Hail Mary’ prayers answered

In baseball, it’s the walk-off hit or walk-off homer. In football, it’s the “Hail Mary” pass. In basketball, it’s the buzzer-beater. All of them represent some of the most thrilling…

Editor April 4, 2017

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Ranger Rick: It’s time – past time really, to celebrate!

Based on majority of contributing writers to this “rag” (author’s description, not mine), they are unhinged about the Trump victory in November and subsequent time in the White House. I…

Editor April 4, 2017

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Barry Hastings: Where in hell are we Americans going?

By Barry Hastings "It is sad, to paraphrase the Tweeter in Chief himself, that Washington is now a city of avoidance, denial and deception." Thus wrote E.J. Dionne of the…

Editor April 2, 2017