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Lessons from time home with the baby

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It finally happened, as we knew it inevitably would eventually.

Our hearts belonged to little Seymour

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There Betty Lynn and I stood in flip-flops and faded denim shorts ‘neath the old apple tree.

Remove America’s criminals off its streets

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Last week the New York Police Department laid to rest two officers who were brutally murdered by a man that had been assaulting his mother. This man was a habitual criminal and should have been behind bars instead of walking the streets. Soon after that horrendous act, a constable in Houston stopped a driver for a traffic violation.

The great, troubling curling scandal

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It’s possibly the only scandal we are allowed to discuss.

I don’t have to forgive Whoopi Goldberg

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I really hate the phrase “it’s a teachable moment.”

Mum isn’t best word on Grambling budget

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Grambling Mayor Ed Jones has a problem on his hands: The city council won’t approve the 2022 operating budget.

Black History Month another chance for us to laud our many leaders

In today’s publication of the Ruston Daily Leader, on pages 12-14, we are celebrating Black History Month.

Children don’t deserve parents’ respect

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I just experienced a flashback, but fear not, it wasn’t freaky. I was thinking about the parenting revolution that began in the late 1960s and quickly overwhelmed America’s homes and schools.

Planning a romantic getaway for Valentine’s Day?

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I dare you to google news about Valentine’s Day.

Looking at two endangered precedents

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For 15 days in June of 1971, a federal court barred The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, a damning account of how the United States had blundered into the Vietnam War. That egregious edict was overturned by six Supreme Court justices, and today their ruling sets the legal standard regarding press freedom.