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Today's Opinions

  • COLUMN: Army comatives

    Combatives: A term popularized by the United States Army referring to hand-to-hand combat training. 

    I’m getting old.

    I first enlisted into the military in 1975.

    Yep, I’ve seen a bunch during nine years of active duty and another 29 years of reserve time in both the Navy and the Army. The trouble is, as I near 55, I just can’t remember much of it anymore.

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  • Things are never as they seem

    I’m guilty of a grievous breech of southern etiquette.  I fail to wave back to people when driving down the road.  
    If you’ve ever waved to me when you’ve seen me driving then please don’t take offense if I didn’t wave back. I never see anything except those white and yellow lines while driving down the road. I never look into other people’s cars while driving. I didn’t even know that people were waving to me until my kids mentioned it one day.  

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  • The unforgiving nature of the Internet

    The Internet: That daily source of information upon which so many of us depend for so much —from the daily news to updates on friends and their status — cannot only be an avenue offering help for today and even hope for tomorrow, but also unfortunately, an escort to our demise, bouncing us along the boulevard of broken dreams, pointing us finally to the exit ramp that lands us in a parking lot bound by past mistakes.

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  • St. Dominic's hosts 'Night of Knights'

    St. Dominic Elementary School will host its inaugural “Night of Knights” alumni celebration on Feb. 9 at St. Dominic Parish Community Center. I’ll give you a little more information about this at the end of the column.
    But first, as in all good schools, let’s have a history lesson.

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  • LETTER: Reader disagrees about gun control comments

     To the editor: 

    This is in reference to my friend Ken Begley’s column last week (“NRA: Shooting from the hip”). 

    He has let the horror of the slaughter in Connecticut cloud his logic.

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  • Finding the 'real deal'

    "You don’t seem like a preacher, at least not a typical one. You’re ‘the real deal.’”

    The comment, coming from an inmate in jail, I took as a compliment, although I frequently ask myself if I’m really real.

    His comment was followed by a question: “How did you ever get to be a preacher in the first place? (“Do you think I should have been something else?” I am tempted to ask.)

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  • God's written word

    Thank God everyday you live here in the United States.   

    For all our problems, I believe it is still the most free country in the world. We may not follow the Bible very well but we do have the right to read — or not to read it — and then use our God-given free will to do what we please.

    In many other countries, people are so threatened by the Bible that you would be shot down where you stand if you professed a faith in Jesus Christ. Forgive me, but if you don’t believe this to be true then you are most incredibly ignorant or naive.

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  • A new chapter

     

    Look at that dapper guy up there. Why’s he wearing that black bow tie?
    It’s a special occasion, that’s why.

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