Voters 'taken by the press' when it comes to news on presidential race
Part of Our World
Dan Rather
      Okay, everyone who knows what Jeremiah Wright has to say about AIDS, 9/11 and Louis Farrakhan, raise your hand. Now let's see a show of hands from everyone who knows where Barack Obama - or any of the presidential candidates - stands on the structural challenges to the U.S. economy, foreign policy...
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      Need for recycling Letter to the Editor: Everyone needs to get in the habit of recycling again. The Wharton City Barn has collection containers at Milam and Grove. Newspapers, cardboard, plastic bottles and used oil can be taken there six days a week.
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Portion control negates need for miniature beef
Pokin' Fun
'Doc' Blakely
      About 40 years ago the cattle industry was breeding cattle to look compact, blocky, short legged, deep bodied and not too heavy. The judges started talking about the ideal animal in those terms but local cattlemen nicknamed them "Watch Fob Cattle.
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Book focuses on lives of C.S. Lewis, Freud
A heritage and a hope
Peter Johnston
      He has been heralded as one of seven men who rule the world from the grave. Tuesday marked his birthday 152 years ago. We know him as Sigmund Freud. A second man died the same day as President John F. Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963. He was, for a time, a professed atheist, as was Freud for all of his lif...
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Reform of 'food-to-fuel' policy desperately needed
      The Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman once said, "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." When Congress passed legislation to greatly expand America's commitment to biofuels, it intended to create energy independence a...
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