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Going Through Airport Security Seeing what a danger terrorism is to the flying public made me glad to see security was on the lookout for my safter one morning not so long ago. Keeping us safe. Several recent test attempts to smuggle fake bombs, guns aboard passenger planes were successful.

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To the Citizens of Coal County: My name is Deborah Yother. I have been a resident of Coal County almost my whole life.

In 1841, American writer-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) published “Self-Reliance,” placing the ingenuity of the individual above an unquestioning acquiescence to the collective.It appeared just before The Communist Manifesto ennobled victimhood of one collective and victimization of...

Most humans are so impressed with Man’s accomplishments that they completely forget that it was God, The Creator, who created an un-ending Heaven, and the Earth, and us.So they were impressed when NASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had encounter some communication problems, and that after...

Sure, I know the Olympics brought some of you a lot of pleasure. The opening ceremonies were nice. I guess. The hosts (The city of Paris) were gifted with a two week non-stop exhibition subsidized by people like NBC and willing spectators who were looking for a good reason to go to Paris anyway.

Division of the human family into two distinct political groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers.

One of the first things I learned in Bible School as a youngster in rural Hughes County was that a parable is an earthly story with a Heavenly meaning.

August Sunlight This summer we have seen our usual hot sunshiny days of over 100F with the sun’s angles being sharp and anxious to inflict skin cancers. Just another proven fact we chose to ignore each summer.

I have found that one of the advantages of reaching the four score level on the age chart is that occasionally people assume that if you have lived that long, surely you must have knowledge about a few things in this life.