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Today's Opinions

  • What breastfeeding and blonde hair have in common

    When you think of a salacious, controversial, possibly pornographic magazine cover, you don’t typically think of Time Magazine.

    Until now.

    In their edition released Friday, Time stole the national spotlight from Mitt Romney shaving a classmate and President Barack Obama supporting gay marriage with a cover depicting a mother breastfeeding her 3-year-old son.

    I didn’t fully realize how much this captured the nation’s attention until I heard it being debated on an ESPN sports radio talk show.

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  • Jessup and his consuming of pills

    195 years ago this month, in the Village of Heckington in the district of Lincolnshire, England, a wealthy stock farmer named Samuel Jessup passed from this earth.  Heaven, for him, might have been a Walgreen’s.

    Jessup distinguished himself by consuming, over the last 25 years of his life, a reported 226,934 pills.  

    He also ingested uncounted thousands of bottles of tonics, elixirs and electuaries.  

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  • Is your news really considered news?

    by Cherie Miner

    Do you assume your news sources present unbiased facts and information?  Do you trustfully consume this news without ever questioning where it came from and who decided what to include and what to leave out?

    If so, you’re probably being manipulated.  

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  • Believing what we want to believe

    A recent New Zealand health study claims a woman there died from drinking too much Coca-Cola.

    You don't need to reread that. Medical experts claim she in fact died from taking the soft drink slogan of “Always Coca-Cola” far too literally.

    Apparently, the 30-year-old-stay-at-home-mother-of-eight would drink a soda upon waking up, one before going to bed and about two gallons worth in between.

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  • Hauling the chickens to Texas

    Just over a year ago Orscheln’s had a big day, selling me three barred rock chicks. Manager Tom Pratt assured us they were quality and by late summer we were getting eggs. With the approach of winter, wife made plans for Texas —plans that included the hens. I said no.  Hauling chickens that far was absurd. We were not going to do it.    

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  • Wrongdoing on the Taxpayers’ dime

    The taxpaying public’s confidence in the federal government suffered more setbacks recently with two scandals:  excessive spending by the General Services Administration and allegations of misconduct within the Secret Service.  The actions by employees in these agencies have led to internal and congressional investigations that call into question the culture of the bureaucratic hierarchy.

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  • A school district that doesn’t get it

    How do you measure how good a school system is?

    There are certain quantifiable numbers you can use such as ACT scores, dropout rates and college graduation figures to try and determine a school’s competency and ability.

    But then there are characteristics that simply can’t be measured by a number.

    I’m calling one the “do they get it” category.

    Aurora School District in Nebraska doesn’t “get it.”

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  • Madden Diary: Crops, roads and militias

    We rejoin George Madden in the spring of 1861.  Farmers had the option of paying property taxes by maintaining roads, and Madden has oversight as a district supervisor.  He’s busy with this, with planting crops, and with duties as a member of the volunteer militia.  

    Thursday, May 30, 1861.  A great many hands in this district are out this day to work the roads. This district is 4 miles by 6, which makes the job very tedious.  I have appointed several persons to lead each work company.

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