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Rutherford Institute Defends 10-Year-Old Suspended for Shooting Imaginary Arrow, Threatened with Expulsion Under Weapons Policy
On The Front Lines Rutherford Institute Defends 10-Year-Old Suspended for Shooting Imaginary Arrow, Threatened with Expulsion Under Weapons Policy December 04, 2013 FAWN GROVE, Pa.— The Rutherford ...
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U.S. Congressman Trey Radel, a brief pullover on the highway
  Media attention on Florida U.S. Congressman Trey Radel has waned some. Radel was arrested for buying cocaine and has since taken a leave of absence for drug rehabilitation. We won't hear much unt...
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Sideglances
A NEWS RELEASE from the University of North Carolina reports on findings that seem to shed new light on how life originated on earth. It said in part: Before there was life on Earth, there were mol...
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The View from Writers Roost
IN NEWS reporting and writing, we’re taught early that nothing’s more important than names. Someone’s handle is particularly sacred in small towns. And, for Pete’s sake, spell it right. If you have...
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Tony Arterburn, Jr., Candidate for U.S. Congressional Fourth District, Texas, combat veteran and entrepreneur receives endorsement from The Curtis Report
Tony Arterburn, Jr., Candidate for U.S. Congressional Fourth District, Texas, combat veteran and entrepreneur receives endorsement from The Curtis Report   Rockwall, TX,   December 03, 2013   Tony ...
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This little label on a gas pump could be all that separates boaters from dangerously misfueling their boat.
BoatUS Speaks Up for America’s Boat Owners at EPA Ethanol Hearings
BoatUS Speaks Up for America’s Boat Owners at EPA Ethanol Hearings WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2013 – The blending of ethanol into the nation’s gasoline supply was the topic of a hearing held today...
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There IS an alternative healthcare plan
by NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
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We are challenging President Obama’s claim yesterday that no one has offered an alternative to ObamaCare. John Goodman, president of the nonpartisan, nonprofit National Center for Policy Analysis h...
Be Like a Marine
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4 Ways Anyone Can Be More Like a Marine U.S. Citizens Appreciate the Character of Those Protecting Them, Says Former Intelligence Officer They’re called “The Few. The Proud;” does that mean the man...
Another great season
'Buck Dynasty' likely to keep rolling on
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The Gilmer Buckeyes just concluded another impressive football season, ending with a record of 11-2. Although the season ended three weeks earlier than the team and the Army of Buckeyes who follow ...
15s QuickTip of the Month!
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15s QuickTip of the Month!                                                                                                          Risk Helping Others WIthout Expectation As Ralph Waldo Emerson on...
Beggars Around the World
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Should Travelers Confronted by Young Beggars Give Them Money? Child Advocate from Pakistan says, ‘No!’  Anyone who’s taken a Caribbean cruise or visited one of the world’s less affluent countries h...
Why Can’t Congress Aim Higher?
by LEE H. HAMILTON
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Congressional budget negotiators are moving to meet a December 13 deadline to produce, well, something. For weeks, we’ve been told to keep expectations low. There’ll be no “grand bargain,” negotiat...
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Suffering from Alzheimer's, Ga. man fatally shot

A photo of Ret. Lt. Col. Ronald Westbrook sits on the coffee table in his home, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in Chickamauga, Ga. The last walk that Westbrook took began as early as 1 a.m. when he slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home with his two dogs. It ended three hours later when Westbrook, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, knocked in the dark on a stranger’s door. A man inside that home, 34-year-old Joe Hendrix, got a .40-caliber handgun, went outside to investigate and shot Westbrook in a horrible mistake. The unlikely collision between two strangers, one deeply confused, another likely startled in the dark, illustrates both the difficulties that caregivers face in keeping loved ones with Alzheimer’s safe and the consequences of miscalculation in a state that celebrates its gun culture. (AP Photo/David Goldman)CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. (AP) — The last walk that Ronald Westbrook took began as early as 1 a.m. when he slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home with his two dogs.


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Woods keeps 2-shot lead on tough day at Sherwood

Tiger Woods stands by the first tee first as the tournament trophy sits in the background during the third round of the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Tiger Woods birdied two of his last three holes Saturday to salvage an even-par 72 at windy Sherwood Country Club, keeping his two-shot lead over Zach Johnson going into the final round of the World Challenge.


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