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Buying Christmas gifts too early can make matters complicated

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Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview in October that people should start buying Christmas gifts immediately. This was troubling because she wasn’t necessarily advising shoppers to plan ahead but instead was issuing a warning about her anticipated shortage of stuff to buy for Christmas. Dock workers are on strike. Trucking companies can’t get…

As a boy, I always wanted my role to be the closest to Jesus

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It is about the time of year when churches begin planning their annual Christmas programs. Music has been selected, scripts have been written, and all that remains is casting the parts and starting rehearsals. These programs have given us some of the best times in the lives of our family members. For years, both of…

Crossing the Mississippi River was a complicated process

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] The movement of the southeastern woodlands Indians across the Mississippi River occurred over a century in spurts. As a new village chief became frustrated with the state-of-affairs, he would move his clan across the great river to get away from the burgeoning United States and…

College Football Conferences

Conference switches mean more money, more headaches

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Loyalty in college athletics apparently doesn’t extend to your team’s conference anymore. Here’s some history. The Southwest Conference was founded 1914 – 107 years ago. It was dissolved in 1996. For the bulk of its history, the conference had eight primary members. Seven were from Texas, including Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor, TCU…

Cohen the Goodhearted made a great speech in his class

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You never known how your kids are going to do when you send them off to the first day of school. The first day of kindergarten will often cast your child’s position until they graduate. That child could be cast in the role as the smart one, the pretty one, the athletic one, the class…

Here is what is happening in public schools to our kids

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What’s it like in public schools these days? In Loudoun County, Virginia, a father whose daughter was allegedly sexually assaulted by a “gender-fluid” person in school was arrested. That’s right. Scott Smith was arrested and found guilty of “disorderly conduct” and “resisting arrest in August after police dragged him from the Loudoun County School Board…

Explore all the possibilities when you are asked a question

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I was attending Bible college (I know some of you longtime readers are surprised that I studied the Bible, but it’s true), I had to take a class called “Christian Milieu.” It was taught by one of the most feared teachers in our school, Dr. Richard Land. Since I am a country boy, I had…

We can’t afford the ‘solution’ to the mythical ‘climate crisis’

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In the 1996 award-winning film Jerry McGuire, pro football player Rod Tidwell had a single demand of his agent: “Show me the money!” “Show us the money” is precisely what thousands of bureaucrats from developing countries will demand of us at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on…

The proud Cherokee Nation began as the tribes merged

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] In the colonial period, most Native American clans were simply a village or two. Those who spoke a common language, such as Iroquois by the Cherokee, would live in the same general district and may trade, but most often did not have a centralized government…

Halloween brings out movies with violence, occultism

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When I was a kid, Batman was a TV show and one of his villains, The Joker, was played by actor Cesar Romero. He was a clown who loved to play jokes on people and who got into a little bit of mischief. The Joker never really hurt anyone physically and he was always thwarted…