Is the ripe apple about to fall?
Letters to the editor
By Ben J. Connell
      Socialism is defined in The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edition) as "A political and economic theory or policy of social organization which advocates that the community as a whole should own and control the means of production, capital, land, property, etc. Also spec.
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Should we vote according to race and gender?
By Ben J. Connell
      If the spirits of the nation's Founding Fathers were still around, they would have to be weeping over the deterioration of the present political situation into impending chaos.
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Thirty-something speaks
Dumped for a trampoline
Mike Maddock
      Over the years I've complained a fair amount about being my two young daughters' chief playmate. I have groaned about attending their tea parties, and I've fussed when they've occasionally forced a pink feather boa around my neck and sent me dancing and plié- ing through the living room as pa...
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It's not a criticism, it's an observation.
Gambling - disease or cure
Mike Cox
      West Blocton is a small community in Alabama. I was born in one of its suburbs. Before WWII it was a coal mining town, prosperous and booming. Then the coal companies left. Nothing much has happened there since. The barber shop where we used to get crew cuts might still be open, but the country s...
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Man on the street interview gone wild
      A television news crew from WOIO- TV, 19- Action News in Cleveland, Ohio, is doing a man- on- the- street interview - kind of like Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" on the late night TV show.
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Vote for your favorite political cartoon at ArtShack
      Vote for your favorite political cartoon at ArtShack Y'Art Sale, corner of Woodrow and Rosewood, 9 am- 2 pm April 27, 2008. As of April 29, 2008, Barack O'Bama was leading by a landslide; Hillary was second; and John McCain was third.
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