Apr 08 2015
Partners By Arkansas Times’ The Observer, April 02, 2015 The Observer is a great lover of language, which makes us a great lover of conversation, which makes us a great lover of debate. We’ve been witness to a lot of debate in recent days over House Bill 1228, the bill that sponsor Rep. Bob Ballinger …
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Apr 04 2015
After lurking in the shadows and watching this unfold (and yet still not knowing what [the Palestinian in Nazareth] wrote that was its catalyst), I guess I’ll throw in my two cents’ worth… The proverbial elephant in the so-called “Holy Land” room is the diaspora Palestinians, who for 70 years and now in their third …
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Feb 25 2015
Live from darkest Arkansas By Gene Lyons, February 19, 2015 Housebound in an ice storm, the columnist finds himself distracted by online trivia and tempted to yell at the TV: Washington Post headline: “Williams undone by his gift for story-telling/Anchor’s love of a good yarn played a role in his downfall.” Gee, you think? The …
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Feb 23 2015
Dear editor: America is in deep trouble! Trouble? From what? Is it from radical Islamic terrorism? Al-Qaida? ISIS or Islamic State? Not even close — it’s global warming! That’s right! That’s what the Obama administration told us recently. They said that “the danger from global warming is far more dangerous to us than extreme …
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Feb 23 2015
Dear editor: Oh brother! Where art thou?! I mean really, where do you get this stuff? There must be something in the water here. A few weeks ago, a bizarre prognostication of smiting from outer space appeared on the pages of this newspaper. In the religion section. Apparently asteroid BL86, in just 12 short years, …
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Feb 22 2015
Beating Back ISIS By Martin Accad, February 20, 2015 Every few days, we seem to wake up to another massacre committed by ISIS. And these are, of course, only the ones that the media reports. ISIS, in reality, is committing massacres on a daily basis. We have become familiar with their crimes in Syria …
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Feb 21 2015
Testament of Dom Christian de Chergé (opened on Pentecost Sunday, May 26, 1996) Facing a GOODBYE … If it should happen one day — and it could be today — that I become a victim of the terrorism which now seems ready to engulf all the foreigners living in Algeria, I would like my …
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