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My faith, my church
We attended a funeral for the son of a friend last weekend and one of our sons came with us. He was raised Catholic and had his turn as an altar server, but over the years he dropped away from...
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Law and Order in North Carolina–Part I
A lot of talk (and yelling) has taken place in the last few months about gun control, but honestly, I haven’t heard very much about criminals and the murders they commit. Our justice/penal system has...
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Another gun nut?
This post just speaks to one individual my wife tells me about. The individual is someone who works in one of the food stores she frequents. He’s a young man, maybe 23 or 24, and she talks to him...
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Should southerners be a protected class?
I have a friend, I’ll call him Ted* (*not his real name) who is a southern boy born and bred. I worked with Ted* (*not his real name) for 13 years and every so often I got his “famous” lecture about...
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When is enough “ENOUGH”?!
The Huffington Post maintains a website called Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook. The site today shows that we’ve had 2,244 death by gun in the 98 days since Sandy Hook. It’s bad enough...
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Terrorism and the NRA
So, what is terrorism and how does it affect us? We’re not going to be so neat and clean by using the official definition of terrorism in Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656f(d). No, we’re going to...
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I won’t hire Joe the plumber
It wasn’t long ago that I entered a contest to win an AR-15 rifle from the Joe the Plumber website. After I entered I was given the chance to sign up for the free newsletter, which, in the interest of...
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Guess what?
I hate it when people say, “guess what?” Don’t you? Children do it a lot because it’s a BIG deal to them and you’re supposed to know it. We are very important in their lives and we’re very smart, so we...
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Part 1—The Business of Lobbying
Whether we like it or not, lobbying is part of our government. If it’s an issue that we like (education) or one we don’t care too much about (taxes), the fact remains that there is probably a lobbyist...
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Corporate Tax Dodgers: 10 Companies, Their Tax Loopholes and 2012 Lobbying...
As I was researching my posts on lobbying I ran across an article published on CommonDreams.org (link to article is at the end of this post) about corporate tax dodgers and it aggravated me. This was...
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