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May 2009

The Can From China

About 24 years ago I went to a building supply store in Boise, I think it was Home Club looking for some boiler valves for the camp ground. Everything they had was made in China. A young man working there said “what is wrong with that? They work good.” I told him that someday when he didn’t have [...]

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MEMORIAL DAY – AND AN APOLOGY WITHDRAWN

By Marilyn M. Barnewall May 25, 2009 It is obvious to me that Barack Obama has little regard for the military… and no, I won’t call him “President” until I see a real, honest-to-God birth certificate or see which nation’s Passport he used while traveling abroad as a college student. Was it American, British, or [...]

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Equal does not mean special

Equal does not mean special. Letter to the editor published in the Idaho Press-Tribune on May 17, 2009 Once someone explained to me the statue of Blind Justice often seen in our court buildings. She is blindfolded so that she distributes justice impartially without respect to race or creed, but solely on the basis of [...]

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In MEMORIAM – 64 YEARS LATER

Thank You Wiley for giving us something to think about. Maybe to wake up some that don’t remember those days of experience that we should learn from. Folks, I don’t think most of the world today realizes how close we are to another saga not much unlike the one this ‘cartoon’ is about.

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A letter to the editor from a former Cuban citizen.

This was circulating last year and maybe you saw it then. How does it look now that we have seen over 100 days of obama? Now that we have the largest deficit ever with no end in site? Now that we have a bunch of crooks surrounding our president and even he is probably not [...]

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Do you know the preamble to your state’s constitution?

This just came in an email, I had to share it.   President Barack Obama said in Turkey : “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”   I  found [...]

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