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Argus Hamilton

HOLLYWOOD--God bless America, and how's everybody? The Weather Channel aired spectacular footage of twelve tornadoes roaring through Dallas on Tuesday. It's part of a twice-a-year ritual in the Southwest. Every Christmas and April families in Texas and Oklahoma get together beneath the tree in the living room. The Masters begins round two Friday at Augusta under weather threat of a lightning storm. Last week at Houston's Shell Open, a lightning bolt hit giant tree near ...

April 06, 2012 | | Columnists


With the photographer’s eye

CHEYENNE BOTTOMS - I learned some significant things on my outing with Eric Giesing and Dr. Dan Witt at Cheyenne Bottoms this week.

April 05, 2012 | Karen LaPierre | Columnists


Argus Hamilton Column

HOLLYWOOD--God bless America, and how's everybody? Tiger Woods is favored to win the Masters for the first time since his serial adultery blew up his marriage three years ago. It's so sad. If PGA golfers would just tee it up in the rough every now and then when nobody's looking, they might get it out of their system. California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the state ban on affirmative action in college admissions Monday. ...

April 04, 2012 | | Columnists


President Obama’s Health Care Soliloquy

By Tom Purcell President Obama, distraught by last week's Supreme Court oral arguments, which do not appear to bode well for his health care plan, gathered his inner circle. Inspired by Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet," he recited a tormented health care soliloquy: A tax or not a tax, that is the question. Would it have been nobler for middle-class citizens to openly suffer the slings and arrows of new taxation, necessitated by my federal overhaul of ...

April 04, 2012 | | Columnists


Republicans Don’t Seem Ready For A Post-Racial America

By Jason Stanford Y'all can go home. Put away your hoodies and cancel the vigils. Pick up the race cards, the game's over. There is no more racism in America. The Texas Attorney General said so. All this is a result of what's called by the political cognoscenti as "Voter ID," a concept pushed by Republicans to force voters to show identification before being allowed to vote. So far eight states have passed some form ...

April 04, 2012 | | Columnists


Obama Care Bears

Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Let us talk of many things, of Cabbages and Kings. Of Ultimate Arbiters. The Court of Last Resort. SCOTUS. The judicial graveyard where appealers go to die. The Supreme Court of the United States, which reluctantly deigned to hear testimony on a subject so obviously beneath them, it was an effort to keep their left eyes open: Obama Care. Due to the rarified air of the highest court in the ...

April 03, 2012 | | Columnists


Mega Millions odds insane

HOLLYWOOD--God bless America, and how's everybody? The Mega Millions lottery jackpot made it to six hundred fifty-six million dollars before Friday's drawing. The odds against winning are insane. You're two hundred times more likely to be struck by lightning, especially if you say something bad about Tim Tebow. Frank McCourt sold the L.A. Dodgers for two billion dollars Tuesday. He cleverly used bankruptcy to set up an auction that ended up tripling the team's value. ...

April 03, 2012 | | Columnists


It's election day (Tuesday)

Duty. Responsibility. Privilege. These words have been used often in recent weeks as jurors were being selected for a trial that is going on now in Barton County District Court. Serving on a jury is sometimes inconvenient, and sometimes even a burden, but for citizens of the United States of America, answering the call to this service is a duty, a responsibility, and yes, it is a privilege. Today is election day, and for those ...

April 02, 2012 | Susan Thacker | Columnists


Dragons disappear if no one cares

"One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more. And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar." It's been a bad week for mythological creatures - or a least for art based on mythological creatures. In recent days, someone drove up to Jim Vance's shelterbelt in rural Barton County and stole his big green dragon sculpture. He made it 11 years ago, when he was learning to work with fiberglass so he ...

March 31, 2012 | Susan Thacker | Columnists


Chuck's passing leaves hole in community's heart

I am not the type of person that can often be rendered speechless, but this one did it to me. The Tribune's city news editor Chuck Smith passed away unexpectedly yesterday while mowing his lawn.

March 30, 2012 | Mary Hoisington | Columnists


GOP ‘Gong Show’ has got to stop

Gong, Gong, Gong! I don't know about you, but watching the Republican primary season is making me feel like a judge on the "The Gong Show." I watched or listened to all three candidates after Tuesday night's Illinois primary. I'm still crying. If Mitt, Newt and Rick had given those uninspiring speeches on Chuck Barris' twisted 1970s amateur talent show, the celebrity panelists would have gang-gonged them in 30 seconds. The speeches Romney, Santorum ...

March 29, 2012 | | Columnists


Watch out for mixed racial slurs

HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Jesse Jackson led protests demanding arrest of the Hispanic man who shot Trayvon Martin. Many wore a t-shirt with the shooter's photo on it calling him a "cracker." Some Hispanics were insulted by the label, while others carried pictures of it to help them get work in Alabama. President Obama traveled to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea Sunday where he peered through binoculars. He ...

March 28, 2012 | Argus Hamilton | Columnists


Martin’s death signals deeper problems

The justifiable outrage over the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. should give all Americans reason for pause.

March 28, 2012 | Susan Stamper Brown | Columnists


Parity sought in the restroom

I recently saw on the internet that Chinese women held an "Occupy the Men's Bathroom." They were protesting the one male to one female bathroom strategy.

March 27, 2012 | Karen LaPierre | Columnists


Caution is urged for “Hunger Games”

"The Hunger Games." I wondered what the hype was all about. After research about the book by Suzanne Collins that the movie is based on, I can offer some prudent advice - be very careful about letting your children (or anyone else's children) view this movie. Here's why. The futuristic movie's focus is a reality television show in a nation governed by slavery. Imagine the show "Survivors," with teenagers 12 to 18, the type who ...

March 23, 2012 | Jim Misunas | Columnists


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