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Life Lesson #18
Stop holding grudges. Don’t live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, “What you did to me is okay.” It is saying, “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.” Forgiveness is the…
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Rediscovering Andy McBeth
For me, it is an exceptional find. At the bottom of box filled with old pictures from Del Norte County, under the flap, I realized there were some pictures, paper-clipped together. When I pulled them out, in my hands were photographs that dated back to the mid-20s, though I’m certain they are reprints. At first…
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Harry Reid Calls the Kettle Black
When asked Senator who he believes will be the likely 2016 GOP nominee, Senator Harry Reid didn’t say whether he meant the GOP’s candidates were unable to win, or if he meant his insult as a schoolyard diss. “I don’t really care,” Reid said in an interview with CNBC. “I think they’re all losers.” Reid…
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Iran’s Long Road to Nuclear Power
This is jus’ a thumbnail sketch of Iran about its convoluted history with the U.S., and is by no means a complete picture. The Treaty of Commerce and Navigations signed in 1856, was the first diplomatic interaction the U.S. and Persia (now known as Iran) had. The treaty lasted until 1928. During World War II,…
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Obama Administration Aiding Terrorists Again
A 2012 U.S. Department of State memo reported “the Government of Cuba continued to provide safe haven to approximately two dozen Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) members.” Furthermore it reads, “In past years, some members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were allowed safe haven in Cuba and safe passage through Cuba.” Now…
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The Shocking Truth about Slager’s Taser
As someone consciously weary of the national media, I’m always looking for ways to poke holes in their narrative about so-called ‘hot-button’ issues. And what I’m about to point out is going to piss a lot of people off. North Charleston, South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager did lose control of his taser in a struggle…
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Illegal Border Crossing’s Not Jus’ for Kids Anymore
Our southern border’s being used not only by illegal aliens but by foreign operatives, too. Agent’s stopped 31-year-old Iraqi man while illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on February 12, 2015. Ahmed Adnan Taha Al Khafaji told authorities that he spoke fluent Russian, lived in Crimea before the Russian invasion and had a brother in New York…
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Life Lesson #17
Stop complaining and feeling sorry for yourself. Life’s curveballs are thrown for a reason — to shift your path in a direction that’s meant for you. You may not see or understand everything the moment it happens, and it may be tough. But reflect back on those negative curveballs thrown at you in the past.…
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Celebrating Nevada’s Great Mugwump
Wikipedia reads: “The Mugwumps were Republican political activists who bolted from the United States Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884.” It’s fitting. The newest exhibit at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City explores the early years of Nevada’s longest-serving State Senator, William J. Raggio.…
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Harry Reid’s Monument to Political Patronage
“Yucca Mountain is dead,” Senator Harry Reid said in a radio interview the day he announced his retirement. For more than a decade, Reid used his leadership position to block Yucca Mountain, which Congress designated as the nation’s permanent disposal site for high-level nuclear waste in 1987. This despite more than 65,000 metric tons of…