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  • Reasons for Rural Rejoicing

    Reasons for Rural Rejoicing1

    People living in our small town have two hobbies: cruising endless circles around the town square and complaining about living in our small town. Generations of residents in our community have been initiated into grumbling as a rural rite of passage. But, as the Bible says, “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.

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  • The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking

    The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking1

    The American Medical Association (AMA) urges physicians to promote COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters.  The AMA even supplies members with social media talking points and strategies to deal with vaccine detractors.  It is not the first time that my profession has endorsed a product that may be hazardous to your health. For most of the 20th century, the AMA turned a blind

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  • The Not-So-Great Depression Diet

    The Not-So-Great Depression Diet0

    When E.C. Harwood formed the American Institute for Economic Research 90 years ago, the New Deal was just beginning. The Great Depression, though, was over three years old, and it was a hangry, troublesome toddler. For those with a job, or on a fixed income, the Depression was great, because prices sank a great deal.

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  • How to Survive Life in Our Looney Bin

    How to Survive Life in Our Looney Bin2

    In 1828, utopian socialist Robert Owen is supposed to have remarked to his business associate William Allen, “All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.” For obvious reasons, today we substitute mad or crazy for queer in that quotation, but the meaning remains the same. And despite

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  • Amazon Trades Charity for Ideology

    Amazon Trades Charity for Ideology0

    Eighty-five years ago, Carl Stotz had an epiphany of sorts while he was passing a lazy summer day playing catch with his two nephews and tripped over a lilac bush while chasing a wild pitch. While nursing his wounds he had a flash of brilliance that would forever change the lives of children, families, communities,

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  • Stephen Curry’s Housing Hypocrisy

    Stephen Curry’s Housing Hypocrisy1

    Stephen Curry is quite the guy. Professional athlete, philanthropist, and social justice advocate—is there anything he can’t do? Apparently there is, seeing as how the NBA player has difficulty practicing what he preaches. Curry came under fire this week after it was revealed that he and his wife oppose the construction of multifamily housing near

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