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Muirs have lived in old Red Oak for 53 years
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comEighty-three-year-old Bill Muir is still in school. He’s not listening to lectures or writing papers or taking spelling tests, but he spends most of his waking hours — and all his sleeping ones — in the same building he attended school... -
GUEST COLUMN: Policy challenges require patience, perseverance
Contributing WriterPatience isn’t only a virtue. It’s also a necessary weapon in successfully opposing policies resurrected from history’s ash heap to threaten our economic and social freedom. However, patience gets harder to maintain – by the...Tags: Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Slavery, Lobbying, Parliament
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Distinguished Centre alum to watch over vice-presidential debate in Danville
dbrock@amnews.comOne of Centre College’s most prestigious — and long deceased — alumni was paraded through campus Tuesday all the way to a prime spot at the Norton Center for the Arts, the site for Thursday’s vice-presidential debate. “The...Tags: Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, Judges, U.S. Elections, Paul Ryan
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GUEST COLUMN: The VP is just a heartbeat away
Contributing WriterEvery four years there’s a big to-do in the media about whom the Democratic or Republican candidate is going to choose for his running mate. Of course, the incumbent president usually goes with his incumbent vice president. Their choices are of...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Heart Attack, Mitt Romney, Politics
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Our Christian nation
Toward the end of the Olympic Games, Tom Brokaw, author of “The Greatest Generation,” introduced a World War II documentary. In contrast to the Olympics’ world unity mission, Brokaw conveyed America’s role in saving mankind from...Tags: Tom Brokaw, Religion and Belief, Christianity, World War II (1939-1945), Olympic Games
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Daniel Boone National Forest turns 75
The Daniel Boone National Forest is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and will be spotlighted at the 6:30 p.m. July 12 Second Thursday program at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a proclamation establishing...
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Betty's Babblin's: The day that still lives in infamy
Wednesday will mark the 70th anniversary of a “day that will live in infamy,” according to our late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, America was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, thus starting our nation&...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan, Employees, Career and Workplace, World War II (1939-1945)
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Perryville woman answered call to duty after Pearl Harbor
jking@amnews.comPERRYVILLE — Blanche Johnson was studying at the Deaconess School of Nursing in Evansville, Ind., when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She had no idea then that what President Franklin D. Roosevelt so famously proclaimed "a date which will live in...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan, Hospitals and Clinics, American Red Cross, Nursing
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Waters: Colonel's recipe for common sense
KFC’s campaign to honor its famous founder, “Colonel” Harland Sanders, celebrates an innovator who lived out his own success story. But the goateed entrepreneur, famous for his white suits, also offers a healthy serving of common sense...Tags: Human Interest, Elections, Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants
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The not-so-secret recipe to restore common sense
Contributing ColumnistKFC’s campaign to honor its famous founder, Colonel Harland Sanders, celebrates an innovator who lived out his own success story. But the goateed entrepreneur, famous for his white suits, also offers a healthy serving of common sense to inform the...Tags: Human Interest, Elections, Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants
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Theodore Perrin: June 21, 2011
Theodore Perrin, 84, husband of Anna Davis Perrin, of Locust Heights died June 21 after a lengthy illness. Perrin loved woodworking and gardening, was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving on the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt as the first carrier jet fighter...Tags: Human Interest, U.S. Navy
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Patrick: Republican Party is leaving moderates
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat until he was 50. A union leader who revered Franklin D. Roosevelt, he became more conservative as his party was becoming more liberal.
Frustrated with higher taxes, increasing regulation, and what he saw as an anti-business...Tags: Indiana, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Politics, Government
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