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MARK SMITH: It wasn't Pahrump's Bill Kohbarger, and 50 on 159
For a couple of weeks now, a scurrilous excerpt from a so-called "white pride" Web site has made its unfortunate, low-life way around Pahrump.
DENNIS MYERS: The ethics of quotation
A few days ago I was doing some research on Sen. Harry Reid and the filibuster and I came across two news stories, both published on July 7, 2005, one in the New York Times and the other in the Washington Post. Both contained references to comments George Bush made about his expected nomination of a supreme court justice candidate.
GARRISON KEILLOR: Health-care issues await sausage mill
It was a good Fourth of July where I was -- no Republicans or Democrats, just a crowd of sunburned people sitting on the grass, and a brass band played amid the smell of hot dogs, and Clarence and Ralph, two World War II vets, described their European tour of 1944-45 from Normandy through the Hurtgen Forest, and it was duly noted that the Revolution was not going well in the summer of 1776 when Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Hancock put their names to the Declaration of Independence, an act of treason and great bravado, and then the crowd stood and sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discovered that, in the key of G, it is a fine piece of music and very singable. And people know the words.
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