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STAR PARKERCovering the pro-gun control March for Our Lives in Washington, CNN ran a headline that read, “They’re marching through the same streets as Martin Luther King Jr. did — hoping for similar change.” The article then quoted a 16-year-old as saying, “The civil rights movement was started...
By EARL WATT • Leader & Times With all the media attention surrounding Liberal during the current trial of three bombing suspects who allegedly planned to bomb a Somali complex in Garden City, a number of other news outlets, magazines and documentarians have stopped by the office to try to...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR First let us define some terms.A fully automatic weapon will keep cycling and firing as long as the trigger is depressed. So with one trigger 'pull' you can fire one round or the whole magazine. The gun will quit either when you release the trigger or the magazine...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR From tax cuts to regulatory rollbacks, President Trump has stood up for small businesses throughout his presidency.Not only did the Trump administration eliminate more job-killing regulations in his first year than any previous administration, but the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
By EARL WATT • Leader & Times During a recent speech, former Vice President Joe Biden said he would have “beaten the hell” out of Donald Trump in high school. WATT Trump fired back, saying it would be Biden that would go down “fast and hard, crying all the way.”We could all hope that this...
SECOND OPINION Daily Oklahoman, March 20 The Oklahoma Senate tried unsuccessfully last week to give teachers a $5,000 pay raise and boost state employee pay by $2,500. The education establishment's reaction to the plan says much about its mindset in the lead up to a promised April 2...
I have written many times throughout the years that group-think is a real threat to the Constitution and individual rights and LARRY PHILLIPS liberty in this country. That holds true, still.I am a 67-year-old retired writer, having not worked for any newspaper for nearly two-and-a-half years,...
A SECOND OPINION, The Boston Herald President Trump used the shooting in Parkland, Florida, to convene a group at the White House last week to discuss the possible nexus between violent video games and actual violence, despite the lack of conclusive evidence that such a nexus exists. No...
A SECOND OPINION, The Kansas Policy Institute As part of the newest wrinkle in the never-ending Gannon saga – yet another education cost study – a peer review of the cost-study process was included in the$285,000 package. The consultant for that review, Dr. Jesse Levin, presented the...
A SECOND OPINION, The China Daily Abrupt as it was, United States President Donald Trump’s dismissal of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state came as no real surprise. There has been speculation for a long time about a parting of ways, as the entire world witnessed them differ on Iran, the...
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