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Be kind to strangers but let kids know about ‘Stranger Danger’

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Stranger Danger was something I actively taught my children. I instructed them “Don’t take candy from a strangers”, “Don’t get into a car with strangers” etc. I even role played this for them, I would dress up in a trench coat (I read too many Mad Magazines as a child and my children know Darth…

What can America do about the rising cost of college?

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When I went to Tulsa Junior College in the fall of 1972, tuition was $6.25 per credit hour. Tulsa Junior College, now Tulsa Community College, was a godsend because before it opened its campus downtown, there were no state-supported colleges or universities in Tulsa. The University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University were the only…

Historically, gun registration and confiscation lead to tyranny

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With the fairly recent spate of “mass shootings” that has occurred, the cry has again been raised to institute “gun registration” on a national basis as well as in some states.  History has proven time and again that when guns are outlawed or confiscated (bought back), the statement, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will…

Men, women must understand each other

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One day an English professor wrote these words on the blackboard, “Woman without her man is nothing.” He directed his students to punctuate the sentence correctly. The men wrote, “Woman, without her man, is nothing.” The women wrote, “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.” These answers don’t surprise me. Throughout the years, I have suggested…

There is no ‘climate crisis’; it’s a threat to our way of life

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Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change, held July 25 in Washington, D.C, Dr. Roy W. Spencer of The University of Alabama in Huntsville said: “There is no climate crisis. Even if all the warming we’ve seen in any observational dataset is due to increasing CO2 (carbon dioxide), which I don’t believe it…

My meager collection of coffee mugs each tell a story

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I have a pretty good assortment of coffee cups from a wide variety of places. If I am a coffee cup collector, it’s more by accident than on purpose. The oldest cup I own is really a beer stein from Europe. When I was in college, my friends Marsha and Terri went to Europe during…

The falsehoods from the liberal news media never seem to stop

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It seems to me there is nothing more offensive than the continuous barrage of outright lies coming from those one the left side of the political fence and the blatant twisting of factual stories found in the – mostly national but too often local – “news” sources.  Evidences of that is mind boggling but everywhere…

Prayer should be an ongoing, daily conversation with God

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I wonder sometimes what our conversations with God sound like from His side. Does he see our prayers a meaningful dialogue? Or do we come across as a child does to an adult? Cohen the Goodhearted, who is rapidly approaching 3 ½ years of age, is now is at the stage where we can understand…

You have to listen very carefully to get all the lyrics right

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Did you ever have a favorite song but there were some lyrics that were a little jumbled and you had no idea what they were? It happens all the time. In the song, I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight by Cutting Crew, one phrase is, “I Just died in your arms tonight, it must…

Carter’s judicial expansion is still causing serious problems

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In July, information surfaced, surprisingly in a daily publication, with a headline that read: “Mexico uncovers massive migrant smuggling ring.”  No reporter credit was given and the story was dated “Mexico City (AP).  The story began: “Mexican officials have uncovered an industrial-scale migrant smuggling ring using tractor-trailer rigs disguised as freight carriers for major companies.”…