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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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on April 13, 2011 at 06:26 am
Last week we learned that Welsh girls, age 13 and up, will now be receiving free “morning after” pills. The government of Great Britain is announcing that the young people…...
Saturday, April 09, 2011
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on April 9, 2011 at 08:30 am
Political science professor, columnist and former North Dakota Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Omdahl opined recently in the Grand Forks Herald, that our current efforts to instill democracy in the Middle East…...
Monday, March 28, 2011
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on March 28, 2011 at 10:18 am
With my considerable Celtic background, St. Patrick’s Day for me almost always involves some cultural, musical event and this year was somewhat typical, for I had the pleasure of playing…...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
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on March 2, 2011 at 10:58 am
It was a moment of drama in an already highly charged event: “I have just come from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where our friend Gabby…...
Monday, February 28, 2011
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on February 28, 2011 at 09:10 am
It was a moment of drama in an already highly charged event: “I have just come from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where our friend Gabby…...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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on January 25, 2011 at 09:46 am
As we begin a New Year, let us in America begin a new chapter in our history and finally leave behind the fiscal disorder which has hampered us since the…...
Monday, January 17, 2011
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on January 17, 2011 at 07:41 am
After much soul-searching I decided I would do it: I would comment on the shooting that took place this month in Tucson. The reason for my reticence in writing about…...
Thursday, December 30, 2010
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on December 30, 2010 at 02:01 pm
The Panty Bomber might not have succeeded in blowing up the Christmas Day flight in Detroit last year, but terrorists can take encouragement in that the seeds planted last winter…...
Friday, November 19, 2010
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on November 19, 2010 at 07:23 am
At a time in our history when we have never been more in need of a strong party in opposition, orchestrating a well-defined rejection of socialism and a firm hand…...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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on October 19, 2010 at 04:38 am
As we approach the ninth anniversary of 9-11, I cannot help but remember where I was. It’s like “Black Tuesday”, or the “Day of Infamy” (December 7, 1941), or the…...
Friday, October 15, 2010
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on October 15, 2010 at 07:16 am
Do you ever feel like Alice in Wonderland? I know I do. Everywhere we look we find evidence that nothing is what it seems, labels are misleading us, the behavior…...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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on September 22, 2010 at 08:19 am
Actually, this question is much like the famous, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” – it is invalid in that it inaccurately presumes that the newly enacted law respecting…...
Friday, July 09, 2010
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on July 9, 2010 at 06:47 am
It is time for us to demand that our “leaders” take a stand. There is no middle ground here. We have just witnessed the outrageous spectacle of a foreign head…...
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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on June 24, 2010 at 05:42 am
Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in a case of a Florida landowner against the State of Florida. The history is as follows: Walton County stepped in to…...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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on June 23, 2010 at 02:22 pm
We should go slowly on amending our Constitution! On the same day that the Republican Party of Utah dumped long-time Senator Bob Bennett for the RINO he is, another interesting…...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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on June 22, 2010 at 08:04 am
Suppose this scenario: The president, Robert Gibbs and Rahm Emanuel invite “Yachtsman” Tony Hayward to the White House. They repair to the Rose Garden, where Yachtsman Tony is shot by…...
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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on May 27, 2010 at 09:10 am
Are we hearing voices? It is a little confusing for those of us on the Right and in the Tea Party movement. On the one hand we have former President…...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
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on May 4, 2010 at 08:22 am
Arizona has thrown a small wrench into the works of Democrats’ “Plan B”, or fallback option. In the face of mounting hostility to its programs and awareness of the flawed…...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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on April 13, 2010 at 11:55 am
With sadness we noted last week the passing of a remarkable man. Jaime Escalante pursued a profession not usually linked with fame. He was a high school math teacher. Born…...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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on March 31, 2010 at 07:13 am
Actually, mostly I love them. But get enough of them together and, every time, someone will opine that there’s no difference between the two major parties – Republicans are as…...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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on March 10, 2010 at 10:50 am
In a recent conversation, Candidate Paul Sorum speculated on this remarkable concept: “I strongly feel that I have an excellent chance of winning the election. It is a fact that…...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
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on February 9, 2010 at 01:23 pm
It was almost Christmas and all appeared lost. A fierce battle had been waged, the field left strewn with its casualties . . . and a horrified electorate watched and…...
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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on January 14, 2010 at 08:17 am
Should Harry Reid step down as Majority Leader of the Senate? This is the question of the day. It comes in the wake of discovery of his racist comments and slurs…...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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on January 12, 2010 at 10:26 am
It is the time-honored custom, as one year takes its bows and the next peeks out from the wings, for gamblers, sages and pundits to attempt to augur the future.…...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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on December 1, 2009 at 06:14 pm
So much for academic peer review. Intellectual integrity hasn't been doing well at all in the hallowed halls. The “experts” on whom so many have relied are, quite simply, whores…...
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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on November 28, 2009 at 11:00 am
"In 2005, as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s director, Carolyn Clancy edited a seminal book (Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy) explaining why health care should be put on…...
Friday, November 20, 2009
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on November 20, 2009 at 01:20 am
In a "presidential moment", on Friday, November 13, Barack Obama was feeling his oats. He almost sounded like the storied American presidents of yore as he spoke out in Japan. …...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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on November 10, 2009 at 11:47 am
How we react to the Ft. Hood terrorist attack will be an indicator of the state of the nation’s health. If the reaction is one of PC whining that we’re…...
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