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Women have always been second class citizens and worse in this country. The U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson confirms that fact. Anyone doubting that assertion that can ask themselves one question: given the burden forced on women to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, what comparable burden is forced on the father? None.
Read moreA recent hearing in the U. S. House of Representatives Intelligence Subcommittee was the first Congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years.
Read moreKanopolis’ mayor threw down the gauntlet during this week’s Kanopolis City Council meeting.
Read moreIn the early 1860s, cultural differences brought about most of the friction between the native plains tribes and the invading western adventurers, frontiersmen, and settlers. The capitalist mindset of the newcomers couldn’t stomach the habits of the native people, who often entered the camp or lonely cabin begging food and gifts.
Read moreCancer is everywhere. Or maybe it just feels like it these days.
Read moreThe English essayist Charles Lamb once said, “Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better (of someone) in something or other.” In another observation Lamb noted, “Cards are war, in disguise of sport.”
Read moreThe saying, “farmers never retire, they farm until they die,” is accurate for my paternal grandfather.
Read moreThe idea of an express delivery of letters carried by horse and rider, a “pony express,” was introduced to Congress by California Senator William Gwin in 1855. It was an idea before its time. Ocean delivery from New York around Cape Horn of South America to California was wholly acceptable at the time. The bill quietly expired in committee.
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