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Make sure you have the right answer
Who are you believing in for your salvation? I must admit when I was younger I believed in people who told me I was saved. I lived like hell but I had been told that I was saved and should never doubt it by many ministers. I believed in their words for my salvation. Let's think for a moment. If a friend, family member or reputable person such as a minister tells you that you ...
Care package made a difference
Dear Editor, To Great Bend Military Moms: On behalf of me and my team, I just wanted to extend my greatest thanks for the wonderful Christmas care packages that you sent us. It was a wonderful surprise to receive your packages. We are at a pretty remote base, so the team loved getting a resupply of toiletries and goodies. Just a little background, we are a seven-man team operating in eastern Afghanistan tasked with assessing ...
Taxpayers should spend more on public radio
Dear Editor, Growing up in a small town near Hays, I thought I lived in western Kansas - that is, until I came to teach at Garden City Community College. Driving west through Great Bend, my wife complained softly of the distance: another hour to grain-elevator Kalvesta; yet another to big-town Garden City. Wide-open spaces seemed wider yet as I worked my summer job with the Soil Conservation Service. Most days, nearly an hour's drive ...
Medical marijuana bill needs support
Dear Editor, Within the last two legislative sessions I introduced two comprehensive medical marijuana bills to the Kansas House of Representatives to assist Kansans with debilitating medical conditions and severe pain such as cancer, AIDS, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and hepatitis C. The latest "Cannabis Compassionate Care Act" bill would legalize the use of medical marijuana for certain debilitating medication conditions, provide registration of patients and strong regulation of a compassion centers, allow a defendant ...
Government should act on energy costs
Dear Editor, Rising gas prices and recent events in the Middle East have demonstrated once again the importance of having access to an ample domestic energy supply which is both affordable and reliable. Higher fuel prices increase operating costs for Kansas businesses and are particularly challenging for those living in rural Kansas, who drive long distances each day to work and school. For the United States to remain competitive in the global market and to ...
Capitalism works
Dear Editor, There's been a lot of uproar recently in the media about corporations such as GE, Boeing, etc. not paying their "fair share of taxes." These people are demonstrating their ignorance of how our economy works. When I took accounting, our instructor informed us that no corporation, or, as far as that's concerned, any other business pays taxes. Any monies levied upon them by the federal or state or any other governmental entities are ...
There's only one debt path
Dear Editor, I am writing to ask voters to support legislation to enact the recommendations of the Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The fiscal commission plan details how it will work and how it affects the population, and it has a realistic chance of being approved by both houses of Congress and the president. The budget proposal that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives does neither. The fiscal commission ...
Why is Christ the only way?
Dear Editor, So, why is Jesus the only way? The short answer is because God said so! The problem with the short answer is, although true, it doesn't explain much to the one who is asking the question. To truly answer the question you have to take the questioner through a theological survey and most are not really that deeply interested. Most just want their question answered in an intelligent yet relative manner. So, we ...
It's no time to increase speed limits
Dear Editor, Anyone with any intelligence should know that raising the speed limit will only perpetuate the consumption of fuel. Most all new vehicles have a fuel mileage indicator and know that the faster they drive the more fuel the vehicle consumes. This is not a Republican vs. Democrat argument. Why in world are our legislators wasting their time and my time by passing legislation that will increase the speed limit? For once I would ...
Fair Tax meeting is worth a little drive
Dear Editor, I want to encourage people in Barton County to make the short drive to Russell on Monday to attend the informational meeting about the Fair Tax. This should be one of those ideas that every American - liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, left, or right - can get behind and support. The Fair Tax removes the government's ability to choose winners and losers in the market place. It gives the people more power over ...
What’s a liberal to do — starve?
Dear Editor, Help me with some objectivity, if you can find any today. The details of the budget deal are unfolding mighty quick and each hour divulges another almost unthinkable action. Here's how I see it: Our government cuts taxes for very rich people. Our government not only fails to collect taxes from GE and others, we give them additional money. Our government conducts wars and various other military operations around the globe with funding ...
Ring the bell, Great Bend
Dear Editor, Back in the 1960s, 1970s and earlier, nearly everyone could name the person (by name) who was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World at the time. Big names like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, and Sonny Liston come to mind. By contrast, now-a-days, nobody can name even a single champion of any weight-class, by name. In bygone times (and even yet today in some circles) boxing matches took place in big ...
Claflin EMTs were right on time
Dear Editor, I wish to thank the Claflin Ambulance Service for their good, dependable group. I had an emergency a few nights ago at midnight and they were here to transport me to the hospital in a few minutes. Good job, EMTs! Thanks. Elsie M. Clowers, Claflin
Thanks for election support
Dear Editor, To the fine citizens of Great Bend: I would like wholeheartedly to thank you for the write-in support I received for the USD 428 school board position. Though I am disappointed to not be a part of the official workings of my children's school, I am not discouraged. God willing I will try again in two years. Unfortunately, after the election I learned that there was some misinformation as to why I was ...
Judges are over extending their powers
Dear Editor, This is in regards to Frank Clark's article about teaching religion at home. What is happening to our right to freedom of religion? The courts are taking God out of everything they can and are trying to secularize everything. The judges on all levels seem to have absolute power. I believe the whole judicial system needs to be revamped. At the rate it's going, the judicial system is trying to make this a ...
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Whoever believes in Him will inherit eternal life
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Don't support circus with live exotic animal acts
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Christianity is believing in a person not participating in a religion
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Myers explains actions at meeting
Yes I walked out of the council meeting. I should not have even sat there to begin with as I had told them I would not play their childish game and then I did. This was a planned rehearsed orchestrated attempt to discredit me with the voters. I wonder how many if not all of the council members discussed this with each other prior to the meeting.
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