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Opinion

Basic human needs are not fair game for billionaire tax cuts

Columnists

Tens of millions of Americans rely on the public assistance programs — like Medicaid, SNAP, housing aid, and more — that Republican leaders are now threatening to gut. I’m one of them. My dream is to regain the financial independence I once enjoyed before life and systemic obstacles ...

Network ‘news’ bows supinely to the trans commands

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Trans woman activist Dylan Mulvaney did a happy-go-lucky softball interview tour to promote the book “Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer.” The “mainstream” media are out of the mainstream on trans issues, and their extreme fawning and flattery only underlines it. On “CBS ...

The Good Samaritan

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Two Sundays ago our Pastor used the scriptural story about the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). There was a severely injured man on the roadside. Two priest/temple workers came by but hurried to other meetings they had to attend. A third man, a Samaritan, walked up and bound up the injured ...

Buster’s fixer upper

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I was giving Buster a tour of SE Iowa. Out on the edge of Mt. Pleasant there was an old tumbled down shack, made of logs. Buster looked at it and said, “I could take something like that, fix it up, and live in it.” Ever since then, we called that old shack, “Buster’s Fixer ...

Lone heroes

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It is so sad that Rep. Al Green (D) from Texas, who was thrown out of Trump’s lie-filled news conference for speaking up when Republicans who did the same previously during Obama’s conference had gone completely without reprimand, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders (Democratic Socialist) from ...