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6 feet and beyond: That would be Wilde
What happens when you clear 5 feet, 6 inches in the high jump as a high school senior?
Note to the global-warming crowd: Your agenda is showing
Michael Crichton must be rolling over in his grave, but the good news is it’s because he’s having a good laugh.
Freedom or slavery? You make the call
Health-care reform?
Foodies get hooked on 'Chopped'
Who knew the Food Network could be so downright entertaining?
First things first: Protect your freedom
Free speech is not free. Like all of our freedoms, it was earned with the blood of patriotic Americans who put their principles ahead of their personal safety. It has been defended by generation after generation, b…
Where butter heads reign
I'm reading a book this week - "The Art of Mending" by Elizabeth Berg - in which a portion of the story takes place at the Minnesota State Fair. It's a good read and has evoked all kinds of memories of that wonderf…
Fairness and free speech: A mismatch?
"You cannot have an opposition movement without opposition media." -Van Jones, former Green Jobs Czar for President Obama.
Take a memo: Watch your back if you are a conservative
Everyone knows that the administration doesn't like being criticized. No administration does.
Health care: Cheap at any price (hint... $900 billion)
Last week, we had the cheery news from Madame Speaker Pelosi that the cost of the House's health-care reform bill was going to come in under $900 billion.
Women still facing many tough choices
I've been hearing a lot about women lately.
Canning in full swing - and then some
The minute my husband walked in the door toting a big bucket full of elderberries, I knew he had relapsed.
Who says they're your kids? Not in Montana
The Montana Supreme Court just made it a whole lot harder to be a parent, and a whole lot easier to become one.
From CNN: 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh... communism still can win'
Reporter Carol Costello had a report on CNN's "American Morning" Friday asking whether the time was ripe for a third party in the United States.
For Dad, every day was good
The call came at 3 a.m. on Sept. 9.
The rest of the story
Sometimes people ask me why I insist on writing column after column about Barack Obama, or before him George W. Bush, when I am just a small-town editor.
A look at the lighter side? Nah!
With all the crazy stuff going on, it was hard to know what to write about this week. No matter what a little old country editor picked, it seemed like someone…