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Make your own choice
The suggestion is clear. You don't have enough on the ball to make your own choices. Not for what you wear, what you eat and drink and certainly not in regards to who charts the course of your nation. The American celebrity industry has been beating that into the collective American noggin for years now, but it's never been more obvious than in the last few election cycles, when the Hollywood and boob tube elite ...
Times are changing, so are we
We've just passed the phase of the year when people pick up "A Christmas Carol," if they bother to read the book at all.
Try something new in 2012
The definition of insanity is, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Rule number one ...
OK, let's get this straight. Today's "protesters" aren't stopping a war. They aren't changing the world. And the whole world is NOT watching. What they are doing is disrupting business for hard working, small business owners and they are violating the law. When they do, they need to get arrested, and that is what happened this week in Iowa, not because they were striking out in the name of the little guy - but because ...
Garage salin' into trouble
It's winter, so you wouldn't expect there to be much garage sale traffic these days.
Fight or run
We deserve. We want. We organize. We take. Americans can believe it or not. It's up to us. But if we ignore the lessons that have been exhibited all across the nation, and were repeated most recently the day after Christmas, then we can just continue to foot the bill in both financial losses and personal injury, even death. We've seen the images, such as those from last spring break, when the large group of ...
Scammers will scam
As we head towards a new year, as the holidays slip by, as we face another dreary winter ahead, it's not a bad time to suggest that we get what we pay for.
Merry Christmas
We have recession and depression. We face elections and politics, side vs. side. We experience new challenges and threats, senseless controversies, public scandals. We endure health lectures, self-improvement harping, guilt trips wrapped around product endorsements. We suffer through poorly-conceived entertainment. We seek after something that will give our lives meaning and we hope against worldly hope that there will be a holiday miracle that brings that meaning into our existence. And so, now we pause ...
Reach out this season, even without a helicopter
Some ideas seem good when you first hear them, but they lose their gloss upon more sober consideration.
Dog rescue was a Christmas treat
Like the gift of a dusting of snow right before Christmas, the story this week about a dachshund rescue wasn't in competition with the presidential race, or the economy or the treason trial as top news story.
Compromise will serve us well
It took them a while to get to the point, but the Great Bend City Council kept at it Monday night - despite the impending severe weather threat - to accomplish what was in the best interest of city employees.
County crews come to the rescue
This week the Barton County Commissioners approved plans to offer pins and other items to show appreciation for the work that county staffers do, and when that is being considered in a vacuum it may not seem all that important.
It's a king-sized success
Man, that's scary! No, really, it's scary to think about what people can accomplish when they set aside their differences and just work together to accomplish good, wholesome goals. And when you think of "good and wholesome," of course you think of Stephen King. OK, maybe not, but King, the king of horror, has exceeded his original plans to help out the needy of his home state of Maine and that is certainly good and ...
Nothing 'pretty' about this
If you want to get American women of "a certain age" mad at you, just suggest to them that the movie "Pretty Woman" is not appropriate, and that the prostitute-turned-wife fairy tale glamorizes a form of slavery. But it does and the world is actually beginning to attend to the plight of those around it who are held in sexual slavery today. According to a new Associated Press report, "tech giant Google announced Wednesday ...
Keep building those bridges
There are all sorts of hackneyed references you could fall prey to. The current county projects will provide bridges over troubled waters, or they will address the Bridges of Barton County, or you could drop all that and just recognize the importance of us investing in the local infrastructure. Barton County is doing, with the help of state officials, what needs to be done all around the nation. Back in the 1940s, for example, the ...
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Thanks, dad
Father's Day was founded in 1910 in Spokane, Wash., by Sonora Smart Dodd. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Despite support from President Woodrow Wilson, there was ...
It's not persecution
The Military District of Washington issued a statement concerning Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army Band.
Phonegate
Edward Snowden's "crime," was warning his fellow Americans about a secret spy program conducted by his own government.
Common Core Standards make sense
The Common Core standards are being talked about a lot these days. The Common Core is simply a set of educational standards that are the same from state to state and are designed for students to be career ready when they graduate from high school. They are reasonable and make sense. The state legislature should let the state school board decide what is best for students.
Tax Troubles: Deep Cuts Hurt Most of Us
Enjoy your tax cut, Kansans.
Breastfeeding is best for babies
Breastfeeding is a normal and natural function and, since the beginning of time, has allowed human beings to get a good start on life. Not only are infants fed the healthiest milk designed for their bodies, they develop their first relationship.
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