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This week, the headline for my column — “Unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots” — is a quote from John Adams when he served as Vice-President …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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1/19/22
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All prosecutors have what’s known as prosecutorial discretion. This gives them the power to decide whether or not to charge an individual for a crime, and which crime to charge them with.
As …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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1/12/22
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At the end of his call with President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve, Jared Schmeck, a 35-year-old father of four from Oregon, ended his call with “Let’s go, Brandon,” a phrase that has …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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1/5/22
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A Massachusetts college recently issued a ‘stay at home directive’ for students living on campus. This order runs from Jan. 3-17 to combat the new omicron variant of the …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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12/29/21
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Francis B. Church, editor of the New York Sun in 1897, printed his reply to a little girl’s question, “Is there a Santa Claus?” And “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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12/22/21
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Some may recognize the headline, “Believe in something bigger than yourself.” I am borrowing it — stole it — from the cover of the Dec. 15 issue of People magazine.
From a …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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12/15/21
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For more than 20 years, I have had the pleasure of photographing kids, from newborn to 90-years-old, sitting on the lap of the ‘jolly old elf’ for the newspaper.
We know him in …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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12/8/21
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Many in the Democrat party are enraged after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty — by reason of self-defense — last week by a jury of his peers. They believe there was no justice, that …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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12/1/21
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We all remember the same story we were told as a young child about Thanksgiving — in a nutshell; the Pilgrims invited the Indians over for a big feast to thank them for teaching them how to …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/24/21
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A truth stands the test of time. That is how you know it is a truth. A truth cannot change. If it did, it would have been proven to be false.
Just over 60 years ago, the column below appeared on …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/17/21
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A recurring theme in western movies as I grew up was the ‘hired gun.’ Perhaps one of the best was the classic movie The Magnificent Seven — appraised as one of the greatest …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/10/21
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Contrary to popular opinion, candy manufactures did not invent Halloween. That’s not to say, like any good business, they don’t take advantage of a good opportunity.
Halloween began in …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/3/21
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The United States of America is a country of laws. Integrity in our justice system is what holds us together. In theory, no one is above the law.
Unfortunately, that is not always the case. …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/27/21
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Millennials — those currently aged 18 to 34 —are now becoming parents. These young adults have waited longer to have children than any other generation.
According to the National …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/20/21
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A choreographer is a person who composes the sequence of steps and moves for a performance. This is usually done for figure skaters, ballet, or any staged dance routine.
This was the case for my …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/13/21
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Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, working with scores of civil rights groups, organized what was known as the “Million Man March” 26 years ago on Oct. 16, 1995. Held on and around …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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10/6/21
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Let’s get this out in the open. I am not, nor have I ever been a gambler. I can count on one hand the number of times I have purchased a lottery ticket in my lifetime. I consider the lottery …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/29/21
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A year ago, before being elected President, Joe Biden was skeptical of a vaccine for COVID-19. In a September 2020 interview, Biden suggested a vaccine would be unsafe because then-President …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/22/21
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The date was Saturday, Sept. 9, 1978. I was a freshman at the University of Missouri in Columbia playing a round of golf for my dormitory on the University’s course as part of an intramural …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/15/21
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Many days have been important to history in my 60 plus years of life on this earth. I have no recollection of a large number of these.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/9/21
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