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John Deering Editorial Cartoon 5/4/13
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Geoscientist: CAFO a no-no
If you were responsible for permitting an industrial hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed along Big Creek, would you ask an expert to analyze what kind of drainage to expect from tons of swine waste applied atop the porous limestone of what geologists know as the Boone Formation?
America the beautiful
Even in the midst of devastation
THE AMERICAN spirit is alive and well even in the scattered mound of rubble that was once Moore, Okla., before a two-mile-wide tornado leveled most of it.
The Japanese model
A generation ago, Japan was widely admired—and feared—as an economic paragon.
Just out of respect . . . .
Anybody surfing the internet last Thursday might have come across it an ad on one of those national news sites.
A testament to compromise
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to send the bipartisan immigration bill to the full Senate.
Add one, carry the two …
In the distraction of the scandal fever swirling through Washington and the news media, you might have missed the announcement the other day that one of the great puzzles of number theory had been solved.
LETTERS
Must share the truth I believe atheists want your children. Freethinkers do, too.
A sagging story
Aren’t there more pressing problems?
YOU KNOW what many people think when they see somebody walking around—or at least shuffling around—with his pants pert’ near falling off his backside?
Obamas overdo it
In recent commencement addresses to black college graduates, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama really piled on the homework.
The president just can’t win
Once again, some in the African American community are hammering President Obama for doing nothing for black people.
Of wigs and spies
In the days of the Soviet Union, street maps of Moscow did not exist for most citizens, or they were deliberately misleading.
A promise unkept
Grant cut leaves students up in air
I am thinking about a handshake as I look over the Arkansas acceptance form for the class of 2017 from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.
The civil-regulatory complex
Dwight Eisenhower didn’t coin the phrase “military-industrial complex,” but he solidified its presence in our national vocabulary when he warned us to guard against its influence during his farewell address in 1961.
LETTERS
Salesmen of the year As an avid Second Amendment defender, I want to say a hearty “thank you” to President Barack Obama, Vice president Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the national media and any other gun-control supporters for their being solely responsible for arming more people in this country than ever before in history.
