Alas, it seems our local newspaper, the Sentinel Record, is determined to make Hot Springs known more for its wingnut provincials than as an international tourist trap. The following article was front-page, above the fold, in today’s Sunday edition. Read it and weep. These people really believe that Trump and Jesus are two sides of …
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Feb 27 2017
And few there be that find it
The evangelical bloc Dear editor: Even though Donald Trump won the presidential election legitimately, the extreme liberal side still cannot understand how he really won, nor can they stop their ugly and harmful opposition. Even though they are loud and very organized, they are only hurting themselves, not helping our nation and …
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Feb 25 2017
An obituary
Leola Lee Ragland, of Allen, Texas died February 28, 2017 at the age of 91. She was born near Gatlin, Oklahoma in 1926 to James Odus Kelley and Mattie Alabama Kelley. She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers Truman, Alvin, Guardie, and Thurman Kelley, and sister Ruby Siever. She is survived by …
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Feb 10 2017
Underlying essence of the United States
How Trump Finally Made This Israeli Arab Feel at Home in America By Sayed Kashua, Feb 04, 2017 4:23 PM At long last, after two-and-a-half years, I’m finally starting to feel at home here. Of course, it’s not the real deal yet, far from it, but it’s definitely a good start, and gradually, with …
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Feb 08 2017
Banned Muslims are Welcomed in Hot Springs
Well, I’ve gotten myself into some weird situations, but today’s was the first time I ever felt the implied threat of physical intimidation. There was the time Cliff Jackson and I infiltrated a Christianist Glenn Beck telecast from Jerusalem, sponsored mostly by our local Tea Party types. There was the time Sherry (my beloved) …
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Jan 25 2017
When Debate is Futile
In January of 1962, the great English philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) received a series of letters from an unlikely correspondent — Sir Oswald Mosley, who had founded the British Union of Fascists thirty years earlier. Mosley was inviting — or, rather, provoking — Russell to engage in a debate, in which he could …
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