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Last week the St. Louis Cardinals split a two-game series in Toronto against the Blue Jays. They did so with no contributions from All-Stars Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado. Their Gold Glove cornerstone sluggers did not make the trip
Read moreThe original Puritans were among the most liberal people of their time. Emerging mid-16th century after Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church, Edward VI’s brief Protestant ascendancy and Mary I’s bloody reaction, the Puritan element of English Protestantism
Read morePolitical pundits pronounced themselves perplexed when conservative Christians – while proclaiming “family values” at every opportunity – threw their voting support behind Donald Trump. Some evangelicals even claimed Trump, a thrice-married philanderer who bragged that surviving the sexual
Read moreThere was much wailing and gnashing of teeth this spring when a Kentucky family ran an Ohio marathon as a group, which included their six-year-old son. The morning shows rounded up pediatricians to discuss the effects such an
Read moreAnd then one May day, it’s 90 degrees in the shade and spiking toward a hundred with a southwesterly blast furnace wind scouring the landscape with grit that brings tears to our eyes. And, might know, tears are
Read moreIt was a blatant conflict of interest and an appalling lack of integrity that must have sent Huntley and Brinkley spinning in their graves. In mid-June, NBC News Today Show host Savannah Guthrie interviewed actress Amber Heard following Heard’s
Read moreQueen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is celebrating her 70th year on the throne this week. And, if you follow United States of America broadcast news organizations, you would think that our ancestors never escaped the yoke of monarchial
Read moreBlame it on Eve. She succumbed to the blandishments of a talking snake and committed the first sin by disobeying a patriarchal God. Worse, she used her feminine wiles to beguile poor, innocent Adam to join in her iniquity.
Read moreBy Jim Holland In junior high civics we learned that personal rights ended at others nose. Rights come with identifiers, it seems. Those identifiers are needed if we are going there talk about them, for our rights have categories are come
Read moreIn late April, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bipartisan bill which had unanimous Senate approval that would have required those appointed by the governor as cabinet secretaries or to head state agencies to file financial disclosure statements.
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