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  • TIDBITS: Be wary of home improvement shows

    Sometimes I think home improvement stores need a screening tool of some sort, perhaps some kind of licensing or reference check. For example, before one can walk in and buy that handy dandy table saw, they need three people to vouch that they aren’t likely to cut off a bodily appendage.

    June 17, 2013

  • STUMPTALK: Obama’s Benghazi betrayal

    “Betrayal” is an ugly word. “To fail or desert especially in a time of need.” Those who pay attention to the actions of Obama are justified in saying we have been betrayed. Think about the IRS and DOJ debacles. Clearly our ambassador and his staff at the Benghazi consulate were betrayed, deserted in their time of mortal need. Obama allowed them to be murdered.

    June 17, 2013

  • Lion and the Lamb: When schools go beyond the three Rs

    The three Rs, reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic, have always been at the foundation of education in Cumberland County. Recently, however, a fourth R has been added — religion. In permission was granted representatives of The Gideons International to distribute Bibles to fifth-graders in the Brown Elementary School in Crossville, and this took place April 11.

    June 11, 2013

  • We the People: Your vote — use it or lose it

    A powerful faction within the Republican Party is determined to downsize our federal government. They want to reshape programs that originated to protect common folks like us.

    June 11, 2013

  • Stumptalk: The elephant in the room

    I recently saw video footage of the president surrounded by the heads of all the services; they had assembled to address the continuing and scandalous problem of sexual harassment in the armed forces. The elephant in the room, of course, was young women in the military serving in close quarters with young men.

    June 10, 2013

  • We the People: Reality check, anyone?

    Harry Truman had a birthday anniversary in early May. Harry was proud of being from the “show me” state. Republicans who aspire to stop all progress and set the clock back should take a lesson from Truman. He did something besides complain and obstruct progress.

    June 4, 2013

  • The Lion and the Lamb: The devil and the IRS

    National news these past several weeks has focused on a scandal in the Internal Revenue Service. IRS agents have been targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. As this story developed over the past several weeks, however, it has become apparent that the IRS problem is much greater than the complaints raised by the Tea Party.

    June 4, 2013

  • Tidbits: What's in a name?

    Being born in the time before routine ultrasounds, my parents thought I was going to be a boy. I'm not sure if mom was carrying high or low, or if the wedding ring on a string went one way or the other, or what other old wives tale was used to determine I would be a he rather than a she, but that's what they thought and that's how they prepared.

    June 3, 2013

  • Stumptalk: The destruction of our schools

    Anyone who is paying attention recognizes that America has many problems. Politicians who have forgotten our American history are causing most of these problems.

    June 3, 2013

  • GARY'S WORLD: Beards of a feather flock together

    Mom always warned me about joining a gang or a club in my youth and said, “Birds of a feather flock together. If you hang around with someone and they do something — everyone will assume you will behave the same way.”

    May 30, 2013

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    Here are some of the winners of our READERS' CHOICE AWARDS! Thanks to everyone who voted! For the complete list, check out the Wednesday, March 27th edition of the Crossville Chronicle.

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