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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…

English is spoken differently in Connecticut than Georgia

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As you know, I am a missionary who works with many different language groups. I am very comfortable sitting in a meeting where multiple languages are spoken. For the most part, I can follow all the conversations. Yet I have the hardest time understanding English dialects from different regions of the United States! Recently, I…

Why did the Cherokee Tribe seem to move around so much?

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] Where have all the Cherokees gone? For several articles we have looked at the almost constant movement of Native Americans before their forced settlement to Indian Territory about 1838. When looking through the telescope of history, we tend to think the world and people were…

What kind of last comments did atheists make at death?

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As America and the world experiences the suffering and death from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, some of the saddest quotes you could ever read are historic last words of infamous atheists. Some are defiant as they shake their fist at God one final time and some are distraught, realizing that they are about to face…

In a storm, we march in the middle to rescue the perishing

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I was sitting in my chair as the message scrolled across the bottom of our television screen. A major storm was moving into Tulsa. Accompanying this storm were torrential rains and winds up to 60 mph.  The meteorologist began giving minute by minute updates, warning that in approximately 15 minutes, the storm would hit the…

What caused the first Old Settlers to escape to the West?

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] In 1788, Chief Torquo (Turkey) moved a large contingent of southeastern Native Americans to Spanish Louisiana. After that, many Cherokee had left or were amalgamating, so the influence center of the traditional Cherokee shifted near Chickamauga River (Creek). The Chickamauga/Lower Cherokee towns were in an…

George Campbell with his grandson Brian Biggs at the National Senior Olympics in Syracuse, New York.

The Rev. George Campbell was the best father-in-law ever

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The Rev. George Campbell was the best father-in-law a guy could ever have. He passed away September 28. He was 89. In the fall of 1981, I fell in love with his daughter Susan. I was determined to marry this sweet young lady. For Christmas, Susan planned to go home to her folks in Concord,…

My hometown had a Ku-Ku, a Dog n Suds and my church

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I spent my teenage years in Chillicothe, Missouri. I lived there during the “Happy Days” era of our culture. The town was perfect for teenagers. On the north end of town was the Ku-Ku hamburger joint. There were over 200 of them during the ’60s. Most of these restaurants were in the shape of a…