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You don't need to check a screen to know how much time we're spending with them. Besides, surveys keep reminding us: total screen time for adult Americans is now just under 10 hours per day - roughly half in front of what we still call a "television," the rest spent with computers and mobile devices.
June 16, 2015
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Peter Funt
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When we last visited the sorry state of Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback - a former short-lived GOP presidential candidate - was showing us what happens when a right-wing ideologue tries to impose his utopian fantasies on the real world. Predictably, the result has been disastrous.
June 16, 2015
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Dick Polman
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The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is the world's largest and most impactful fundraising event to end cancer. It unites communities across the globe to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and take action to finish the fight once and for all. On Friday evening, the Barton County Relay for Life event took place at Jack Kilby Square in Great Bend. 20 teams and 229 participants raised $68,758.80.
June 14, 2015
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J. Basil Dannebohm
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We've known for a long time that Barrack Obama is clueless when it comes to dealing with what's left of Iraq.
June 14, 2015
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Michael Reagan
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The nation's 70 million fathers vary widely in age, ethnicity, income, talents and parenting style; but they all have one thing in common: they're not prepared for the random Father's Day thoughts I'm about to unleash:
June 12, 2015
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Danny Tyree
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Every year, the federal government doles out lavish sums of money to private sector contractors.
June 12, 2015
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Joseph Cotto
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"The Hunger Games" was supposed to be fiction, but maybe it was prophetic. Now comes "The Briefcase," CBS's new reality show that pits desperate middle-class families against each other for financial survival. This seems more appropriate for dystopian science fiction than contemporary prime time, and the instinct is to kill the messenger: How dare CBS air this garbage?!
June 11, 2015
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Jason Stanford
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"ObamaCare is being challenged at the Supreme Court again? What now?"
June 11, 2015
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Q. What's the darn deal with the USA Freedom Act?
June 10, 2015
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Will Durst
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If you look at the track record of the interventionists, you might think they would pause before taking on more projects. Each of their past projects has ended in disaster, yet still they press on. Last week the website Zero Hedge posted a report about hacked emails between billionaire George Soros and Ukrainian President Poroshenko.
June 10, 2015
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Ron Paul
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Before defending Abercrombie & Fitch, please know I regard the company as a bottom-feeding, scum-sucking retailer of sex to impressionable prepubescent girls.
June 09, 2015
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Rick Jensen
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In the past few weeks we've learned that Josh Dugger was a child molester, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was a child molester and the Methodist Church in the UK has apologized for 2,000 cases of abuse dating back to 1950.
June 07, 2015
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Michael Reagan
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Way back in 1954, Army lawyer Joseph Welch famously rebuked right-wing demagogue Joe McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" One can only imagine what Welch would say today about the vile Internet trolls who can't curb their hatred even when somebody dies.
June 07, 2015
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Dick Polman
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Get this: Conservatives give better graduation speeches than their more liberal-minded counterparts.
June 05, 2015
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Tom Purcell
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Uncertainty, thy name is San Diego.
June 05, 2015
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Joe Gandelman
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