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Regain flexibility after age 50

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For their crimes Nazis are routinely — and appropriately — denounced by everyone, including leftists, who eagerly ignore the even worse crimes of Marxists.  But it’s not just leftists who

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Ron Perry | The Guts to Speak Up

Re: Cindy Josten, “Too Much Made of Pride,” letters, July 2. Finally, someone with the guts to speak up! Thank you Cindy Josten, for a wonderfully worded, non-hateful, yet much-needed

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Thomas Oatway | Is This Lawfare, Too?

Are we supposed to believe that the delays of other Donald Trump trials by the Supreme Court and a judge appointed by Trump are not examples of “lawfare”?  Thomas Oatway

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Rick Barker | Elected Officials

Elected officials freely chose to put ­­themselves in the public eye and if they are worthy of the position they hold they are also intelligent enough to be very aware

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Jim de Bree | Debate Proves Concerns

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Dan Walters | After 248 Years, Is This Our Best?

Business mogul Mark Cuban conducted an interesting experiment during last week’s debate between President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump. He fed a transcript of the debate into ChatGPT,

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Nothing could have prepared me better for my career and life than playing team sports growing up.  It’s hard to imagine someone now in their 70s pitching a fastball 100