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Arizona governor rescues state

<em>鈥淓ye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth鈥</em><em>Exodus 21:24</em>I鈥檝e formed my own religion.I鈥檝e based it solely on one passage in the Bible 鈥 鈥淓ye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.鈥滻 was planning to take my religion to ...

When Ted Nugent speaks鈥

Ted Nugent talks too much.I say let him keep talking.The aging (he鈥檚 two months younger than me) rock 鈥榥 rolling, gun-loving, draft-dodging 鈥淢otor City Madman,鈥 is never short on words, nor long on intelligent ones.Ask him a question, and a verbal low blow falls out.He鈥檚 recently ...

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William Styron was one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th Century.His fact-based novel 鈥淭he Confessions of Nat Turner鈥 about a failed slave uprising, ignited controversy in 1967. But it would also earn the highest form of praise -- a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Styron鈥檚 next novel, ...

Getting ready for some baseball

Pitchers and catchers reported last week.To be more precise, the Pittsburgh Pirates are preparing to defend their newfound empire against all enemies, foreign (the Cincinnati Reds) and domestic (themselves).With the Pirates heading to Bradenton (position players are scheduled to report today), ...

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It certainly must have raised lots of eyebrows in Uniontown on Feb. 18, 1952, when the readers of the Evening Standard learned that 鈥淯niontown (is) Going To (the) Dogs.鈥漈hat was according to Uniontown鈥檚 Police Chief Alfred W. Davis, who was fed up with all of the stray dogs that had begun ...

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I鈥檓 always pleasantly surprised when I research one of these columns, and I discover facts that I鈥檇 never considered.While we see paid television services like Netflix as being the latest in the marriage of high-tech TV and telephone technologies, it鈥檚 really been more than 60 years that ...