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Laura on Life: Stategies for Monopoly
If you want to know the true nature of a person, suggest a game of Monopoly with them.
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Open Letter to Grayson County Citizens: Servant leadership is what I am about
I’m Greg Middents, your candidate for Grayson County Judge. I need your vote and support.
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Thinkable: Reasoning and reckoning
Basic science involves setting up experiments, making observations, and testing hypotheses using probability theory.
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So what’s up with the ‘Prayer is America’s Only Hope’ signs?
So what’s up with the ‘Prayer is America’s Only Hope’ signs? Yes, I know this is a fundraising effort and am familiar with the verse of Scripture – 2 Chronicles 7:14; a verse some Christian leaders feel is misunderstood and misused – printed on the signs. But really. ONLY? Irritating. Prayer is wonderful. At the same time, how about using some of those God-given talents and learned skills to help make America a better place?
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The School Lunch Program: A nudge in the right direction
If you blinked, you might have missed Senator Blanche Lincoln change what your child likely eats for lunch at school.
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Thinkable: Learning from Pogo
Could Pogo (former comic strip character) have been right when he said, “We have met the enemy, and he is us?”
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How much is enough? America's runaway military spending
With $549 billion requested for basic military expenditures and another $159 billion requested for U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—the record $708 billion military spending called for by the Obama administration for fiscal 2011 will be nearly equivalent to the military spending of all other nations in the world combined. When it comes to military appropriations, the U.S. government already spends about seven times as much as China, thirteen times as much as Russia, and seventy-three times as much as Iran.
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Texas Attorney General, Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas launch campaign to fight child sexual abuse
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today partnered with Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas (CACTX) to launch “One With Courage,” a public service campaign that will help raise awareness and prevent children from being sexually abused. “One With Courage” is centered on the courage it takes for a child victim to come forward and inform loved ones about the abuse. The initiative also acknowledges that courageous adults can help protect young Texans by learning to discuss the issue, learn the signs and recognize abuse.
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Laura on Life: When you're hot, you're not
Trying to have a rational conversation with a child is like trying to capture sand in a sieve. They have so many things going on in their head all at once that some of the simplest concepts are lost somewhere between your mouth and their ears.
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Thinkable: Widows and widowers
Jesus promises to each believer never to leave us nor forsake us. A lifetime with the gift of a spouse tends to train us toward becoming used to them, bonding more and more, and sometimes even tending to take them for granted or unduly depending on them until they have gone home, no more to return to us.
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County government and court systems are anything but aligned...
It became clear from the reports of the Fannin County Commissioners Court Meeting on Monday the 9th of August that the county government and court systems are anything but aligned and all looking out for the good of the County.
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Remembering the fathers who can no longer remember
I pass the photos of Americas Heroes at Walmart and stop and study them.
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