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L&T Publisher Earl Watt Criticism comes in all shapes and sizes, and when you write a newspaper column and put your name on it, you are exposed to a variety of criticisms and compliments that can be justly deserved or simply mean-spirited. The most recent critique added that my photo...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon I spent the weekend in New York City. I hadn’t been to New York in quite a while. I was performing at a theater conference and so was traveling alone, without my husband, Peter. New York intimidates me — as all big cities do. I am not a nervous...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860 with 1.8 million votes. Would you be surprised to learn that 2.8 million voters chose other candidates? Following today’s media reports and opposition pundits, I wonder if those 1.8 million who voted for Lincoln would be...
GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet Just when Americans are starting to see the reality of criminal abuse by top officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, they are discovering how deep the sewer really is. The depth of corruption is now seeping into the secretive Foreign...
GUEST COLUMN, Brian Darling, townhall.com Hypocrisy is not new to politics, yet it seems like many politicians have no shame in virtue signaling something today that they were reluctant to oppose a few years ago. Take, for example, the high profile killing of General Qasem...
GUEST COLUMN, Glen Brunkow, Kansas Farm Bureau We have flipped the calendar to a new year, and that also means the “silly season” of politics is starting in earnest. This year promises to be an even sillier year than most because of state and national elections. More than just about any...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron As one who has been a pastor since 1972, I find the most difficult part of the job is officiating at funerals. It’s more fun to preside over weddings and baby dedications, or to welcome new church members. This week marked the passing of a friend’s wife, and it...
GUEST COLUMN, Dr. Richard Holm, Prairie Doc® It was in London, England, 1854, when a severe diarrhea illness caused the deaths of 500 adults and children over a ten-day period and proved the value of scientific thinking. Physician-scientist John Snow mapped out the locations of those...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt For two weeks we have been told that President Donald Trump’s decision to drone strike top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a huge, huge mistake that put America on the precipice of World War III. Forget the fact that Soleimani was responsible for hundreds of...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon I want to start out by making it clear that I have nothing against cowboys. One of the new developments in my life is that I recently got a manager, Bob, to book performances of my writing. I’ve never had a manager before, so I didn’t know what to...
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GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris
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