Cowboy wisdom
      Don't name a pig you plan to eat. Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong. Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plough around the stump. A bumble bee is faster ...
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Mumbles
He still calls me mayor
Billy Fleming
      This past holiday season as Christmas was approaching, it was hard to catch any TV news without somebody talking about or interviewing the "secret Santa." It was a story about a Kansas City man who had maintained his anonymity over 30 years while handing out $100 bills to needy people during the ho...
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All That's Fit to Print
Paying more isn't patriotism
Brenda Wall
      I realize we have a long time between now and the next presidential election. There are bound to be countless opportunities to point out the idiot-syncracies of the hopefuls. Some of those opportunities are too good to pass up. Last weekend, a political analyst called John Edwards the "Breck girl.
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Alex McRae
Religion is rockin' in United Kingdom
Alex McRae
      "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." That seems to be the new motto of the Church of England, which, after years of declining attendance, is trying to lure young people back to the pews with rock and roll. This change of philosophy will be in full bloom in the merry month of May at St. Swithin's pa...
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Shipp's Georgia
Treat all candidates as equal
Bill Shipp
      "Democratic candidates must treat Sen. [Barack] Obama just like any other candidate. They must not treat him differently because he is an African American.
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Other Voices
The GOP's Cassandra issues warnings
Robert Novak
      Pollster Frank Luntz for the past decade issued warnings to his fellow Republicans that they did not want to hear, but never has been so out of touch with them as he is today. "The Republican message machine is a skeleton of its former self," Luntz told me. "These people have no idea how the Americ...
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News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1997 THE EARLY County High School Early Arrivals have been selected as the representative from Georgia to participate in the "American Musical Salute to the 75th Anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial" in Washington, D.C., this May.
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