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Michael O'Connor: Try these icebreakers at your next party
Just when you think the world can’t become any more stupid, you check your favorite news sites and discover, yes, it can.
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What’s Arabic for ‘You’re no Atticus Finch’?
A group of “leading conservative lawyers” — a phrase never confused with “U.S. Marines” — has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.
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The last thing we need
An executive for the Sierra Nevada Corp., a defense contractor based in Nevada, wanted to know why he should contribute $20,000 to Rep. Peter Visclosky, an Indiana Democrat.
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For key Democrats, health care becomes ego trip
In the entire health care debate, among all the competing lawmakers, politicians, experts and pundits, there’s just one person who has seen things from both sides of the political aisle.
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Don Newbury: Time to sign off on late-night TV
If memory serves, and often it doesn’t, the question was first posed to open TV newscasts.
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Michael O'Connor: Things I never learned in civics
I’m just a bill,
Yes, I’m only a bill,
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3/7 Editorial: State senate candidate should know area’s needs
Welcome to politics, Mr. Yancy. In case you missed the news, Darren Yancy of Burleson ran against incumbent Kip Averitt, R-McGregor, for the state Senate District 22 seat and lost.
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Don Newbury: Number of phobias multiplying daily
Several decades ago, phobias were few. Today there are many, and the list is ever-growing.
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Michael O'Connor: What the world needs is more creative insults
While listening to a favorite podcast the other day, I heard a caller from Grand Rapids, Mich., make a reference to the book “Gargantua and Pantagruel.”
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