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Farmers hit hard by draught
More than 1,000 parishes and counties across 26 states have been designated as disaster areas from the 2012 drought, making it the largest single disaster designation in the history of the U.S. USD...
Jul 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hagler-Hearns revisited
I will never forget “The War” between boxers “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler and Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns fought on April 15, 1985 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VI-M9Yw-28). I watched it at a closed-ci...
Jul 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why newspapers are a better ad buy
Impact, reach, and results. Three words marketers crave and three words newspapers deliver more effectively than any other advertising medium. A comprehensive advertising package of all things digi...
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Judas
Everyone seems to be giving their opinion on John Roberts, the conservative, oops, the Judas Justice on the Supreme Court, so I might as well give mine. The liberal news media and pundits had alrea...
Jul 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jobs versus net jobs
One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of t...
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Anderson reelected Farm Bureau president
Ronnie Anderson, a beef cattle producer and forage grower from Ethel, Louisiana, has been reelected president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. Anderson, 62, begins his 24th term as presiden...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Things that caught my eye last week
What the heck difference does it make? John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, confused me (and many others) greatly in rendering his obtuse majority decision upholding the individual ma...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judicial betrayal
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often, Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmos...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The seventy percent solution
News flash! The day after the Supreme Court voted to uphold the healthcare reform act, the sun continued to shine and the planets remained aligned. Now that the uncertainty is gone, it’s time to ta...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The high price for ‘purity’
Our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court fled from the field of sanity on June 28, and ceded the struggle over containing massive federal government control over commerce and individual rights to the...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ten-year reunion: Before and After
BEFORE: I woke in a panic one morning as I realized that my 10-year high school reunion was upon me. Ten years ago, I didn’t know where I would be nor could I have imagined myself at this age. I lo...
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Ryan's Reviews - Max Payne 3 Review
Available on: Xbox 360 Playstation 3 PC The story of Max Payne began with Max as an NYPD detective whose wife and baby daughter were murdered by drug addicts. Those drug addicts were...
Jul 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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