Articles Tagged “Christmas”
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Still Children
BY HARRY T. COOK When we were children, we tended to think that what obtained in our “now” would be maintained forever, that we would never leave our parents, nor they us. Without much thought, we assumed that the home in which we had found emotional and physical comfort would never change, that it would [...]
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Christmas In Santa Monica
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Outrage
BY SHARON MARTIN An article in the AARP Bulletin expressed outrage that people who earn a million dollars a year get unemployment benefits when they are laid off. Wait a second! Didn’t they pay unemployment premiums? The cause for outrage would be that people who paid insurance premiums couldn’t collect for any made-up reason, including [...]
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A Dangerous Idea
BY SHARON MARTIN A column in the Washington Examiner lamented that members of Congress were banned from saying Merry Christmas in letters mailed to constituents. Fortunately, the columnist, Mark Tapscott, included the actual ruling from the franking commission. It made perfect sense. Legislators cannot mail out their Christmas cards at taxpayer expense. That didn’t stop [...]
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Inhofe Has A Point — At The Top Of His Head
BY KENNY BELFORD Once again Oklahoma has provided amusement for the rest of the country. The late night comics immediately weighed in, and they didn’t even need their comedy writers – they just related the actual events of the parade crisis that had gripped the war zone in Tulsa. The facts of this “crisis” were [...]
