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Mail Call - June 17
“To all you people out there who complain about getting tickets from speed cameras, which allow you 12 miles an hour over the speed limit before you’re fined: Try to stop complaining, and slow down.” — Hancock “I just read...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Bill Clinton, Susan Rice, Security Measures
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Letters to the Editor - June 16
Finish the job of Medgar Evers To the editor: Mississippi’s tireless civil-rights worker, Medgar Evers, was killed 50 years ago. An assassin’s bullet mortally wounded Evers in front of his home, leaving a widow and depriving three...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Kentucky, Health and Safety at School, Civil Rights, Career and Workplace
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Mail Call - June 10
“I was just reading the marriage licenses in the newspaper, and I’m curious to find out, when a woman and a woman get married, how do they decide which name to take? And the same thing with a man, when two men get married, how do they decide...Tags: Parties and Movements, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Bill Clinton, Government, Baseball
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U.S. spy programs raise ire both home and abroad
The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official said there are no plans to...
Tags: Susan Collins, Extradition, Beijing (China), The Washington Post, Central Intelligence Agency
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Mandela's condition 'unchanged;' South African leader calls for prayers
Associated PressFormer President Nelson Mandela’s condition remained serious but stable on Monday, his third day in a Pretoria hospital, the South African government said. “His condition is unchanged,” the office of President Jacob Zuma said in a...Tags: Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Jacob Zuma, Hospitals and Clinics, Government
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Allan Powell: What gives the U.S. Constitution its legitimacy?
From time to time, I receive an article or book from a reader who was impressed enough with the contents to share it with me. One such gift was a Jan. 17, 2011, issue of The New Yorker, with a request to read “The Cult of the Constitution”...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Crime, Law and Justice, Antonin Scalia, Punishment, Robert H. Bork
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Mail Call - June 3
“Why is it the American people always want to (complain) about what the police get, and what they do? They don’t ever say anything about a sports person making $150 million for one year’s salary, to throw a football, that’s OK. And...Tags: Bill Clinton, Belief and Faith, Barack Obama, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Christianity
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Allan Powell: Rand Paul for president?
Two events that occurred Sunday, March 10, make it clear that Rand Paul was making an early announcement that he is running for a home in the White House in 2016. (Actually, his first act was a few days earlier when he made a 13-hour filibuster in the...Tags: Ayn Rand, Tea Party Movement, Food and Drug Administration, Dwayne Johnson, White House
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Business people - June 2
Jack Gaughen Realtor ERA WAYNESBORO, Pa. — Emily Muir recently joined the sales team at Jack Gaughen Realtor ERA’s Waynesboro office. She is licensed to list and sell all types of real estate in Pennsylvania. Muir is a member of the...
Tags: Edward Jones, Colleges and Universities, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Career and Workplace, Health Treatments
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Mail Call - May 29
“This trial of Jodi Arias, who is on trial and I believe has been convicted of murdering her boyfriend in a very terrible way, by slashing and shooting him, they’re talking about giving her the death penalty, and it’s been so drawn out,...Tags: Tornadoes, Parties and Movements, Wars and Interventions, FBI, Barack Obama
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Mail Call - May 28
“I don’t know where people get their crazy ideas, but landlords are not responsible for underage drinking, or drunks laying in their units. The tenants are responsible for themselves. Do you want a landlord to say in the lease that a tenant...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Bill Clinton, Taxation, Rental Service, Barack Obama
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Mail Call - June 7
“I hear over and over again that a lower unemployment figure will lead to the Federal Reserve introducing a policy that would raise interest but lower stock prices. So why would companies knowing this ever consider hiring people? They would end up...Tags: Annapolis, Bank Robbery, Federal Reserve
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