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I've read it numerous times. (My sister could show off by reciting both it and the Gettysburg Address by memory.) The wonder to me is that there any loyalists left by that point. Of course, I know economics were involved...

Here, their successor organization* sold out to Huntsville Hospital, the 6th largest public hospital chain in the country. So, we have no competition at all to speak of, in an area approaching a half million in population. A couple of years ago, they had eased out the long-time Administrator, an...

I have to agree. There are numerous cases on record (and more which aren't) of women, in particular, having firearms taken away and used on them, because, although they had a gun, they thought the scare tactic would work and were not able to pull the trigger, in the end...

In Alabama, in a 2013 Supreme Court case, a guy had been convicted of "brandishing," and had appealed all the way to the top court. Even the CCA had affirmed his conviction. He was a landlord with a tenant he had evicted and heard was continuing to trespass. There was an altercation. He went to...

My basic question is how many to we need? How different are they? When the age of supercomputers dawned, we pooled resources and didn't feel like every Tom, Dick and Harry needed his own supercomputer. Of course, as they have shrunk, there are more but there are many essentially terminals which...

Many countries have provisions which add on conditions like that and I don't have a real problem with it. The main hurdle would be getting the requisite majorities for a constitutional amendment...

I don't like it at all. My problem is I don't know how to throw out the bath without the baby going with it. Jus Soli was considered almost sacred when I was growing up. "Born here and you belong here." I can't see a clear way to outlaw the instances like the Russian women without a lot of...

Being a lawyer, I've followed these "stand your ground laws" cases with interest. It seems to me that juries are not really following the letter of the law. She has satisfied that. How far is she obligated to back up? OTOH, there have been a couple of convictions here lately where the letter of...

That's scary. Almost enough to make me grateful for our coyotes...

Did anyone else think the TV anchor playing a US Attorney sounded like an absolute idiot today explaining that it was a felony because Hearn touched the detached coating with both hands. I couldn't figure out if her smile were efforts to keep from laugh out loud. Then you had the reality TV star...

When I saw that red card, the very first thought I had was how many millions of Euros it was worth and how they would divvy it up. It's interesting that it's still rated a tossup. Wonder what it would have been with his playing.

I understand that happened, particularly in larger churches with a lot of property in question. As I said, in our church, it was pretty much assumed the church would stay with the UMC, although one can never be sure, so there was a slow leakage over a period of time. After all, there was a...

That would impose an additional burden on already overloaded state child welfare agencies, not to mention the problem of investigation. I'm afraid it sounds better in theory than it would be in practicality...

Certainly didn't happen to Messi and the damned ball was on the other side of the player he stepped on...

Actually, only 24% left the UMC, 25% of congregations. I must admit that some who left - Latham and Asbury - surprised me. Aldersgate staying surprised me mildly, since so few there grew up in the UMC. The ones who left were out of tune with traditional Methodist values. In our case, our little...