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There are some advantages to the new law on state care tags

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It seems that the Oklahoma Legislature, during the 2018 session, enacted a new law regarding the license plates required on all motor vehicles, and possibly some trailers. The story announced that the effective date is July 1.  That seems strange to me since most laws take effect on November 1 of the year passed.  There…

A ‘Flat Jesus’ won’t ever satisfy you

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This is the first summer in 40-plus years that I am not leading teams and serving on the mission field. I have to be honest; it is hard to watch the reports coming in of what God is doing through our teams while sitting in a recliner. I have always been a participant and not…

Computer models, hypotheses on climate aren’t trustworthy

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Scientists, politicians and activists have long insisted that the United States and world must end fossil fuel use to prevent dangerous manmade global warming, climate change and extreme weather disasters. They say “the science is settled” and the time to act is now. Many other experts have pointed out that these dire threats are the…

Co-ops have advantages

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture just recalled 62,000 pounds of beef due to an E. coli outbreak, creating a nightmare for big grocery chains nationwide. But for the millions of Americans who shop at food co-ops, there’s nothing to worry about. These small grocers obtain their meat and produce from a handful of trusted, local…

I have a special privilege that cannot be diminished

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I admit that I grew up under privilege. No, it wasn’t because my family had wealth. We didn’t. My Father, the late Harley Biggs, Sr., was a barber who took home about $100 a week back in the 1960s in Tulsa. My mother passed away in 1959 and Dad had to raise five young boys…

Freedom-loving Americans need to stand up for our Constitution

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World history reports that no democracy has ever lasted more than 200 years. Only a few empires have exceeded that time limit.  Unfortunately, we in the United States of America have important and high-ranking politicians erroneously using the word “democracy” as the type of government established with the ratification of the proposed Constitution in 1788,…

Even with my cancer, my Heavenly Father is in charge

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One of the things I have taught my students is that each one needs two mentors: one living and one who has passed on. I have had both.  My living mentor was Dr. Avery Willis, a well-known name among Baptists worldwide. For some reason, Avery picked me to travel with him to teach MasterLife, a…

Some of the best vacations are just not that complicated

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When I was a kid, we didn’t have much money and so we never took a real summer vacation. Sometimes, usually on the Fourth of July or over the Labor Day weekend, we would drive over to Conway, Arkansas, to visit family members and go crappie fishing. When Susan and I started having kids, we…

Someone needs to explain DST to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

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With the 2020 election season well underway, it seems that the situations of candidates for the two major parties are quite reversed from 2018.  At last report, there were 24 candidates for the Democrat Party nomination (the correct name) and no one so far with an “R” registration with the temerity to challenge our incumbent…

A cave competition and bumper stickers in Missouri

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I was born and raised in the state of Missouri; our state is called the Show Me State. We got that name because in the early days, we Missourians were rural farmers, and we didn’t cotton to all that highfalutin’, slick, double-tongued city folk talk. So the bottom line was to put up or shut…