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Why is government intimidated by Occupiers?

Why is our government and our law enforcement so intimidated by the Occupy movement? These taxpaying Americans are expressing the right to disagree with people who earn millions of dollars for doing nothing while hardworking, underpaid Americans get taken advantage of. The law in this country is not fair or equal. The United States is […]

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Some solutions for solving D.C. gridlock

My solution to the gridlock in Washington, D.C: As soon as the government shuts down, all salaries to senators and representatives shall cease to be paid pending passage of the budget bill. Their staffs will be required to leave their offices until a budget bill is passed. No senator or congress person will be allowed […]

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OUTDOORS: Putting it on film

It’s just plain cold at dawn near the Canadian border as two filmmakers haul their high-tech cameras out on a frozen pond to capture an ice fisherman landing whatever bites.

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Why do we continue to soil our Earth-nest?

M.D. Harmon’s column (Dec. 3) about global warming raises the largely irrelevant issue of whether we are in a natural or manmade period of global warming. I say irrelevant because, while we argue about global warming, our oceans are overfished and chemical fertilizer runoffs create dead zones, and the devastation of our forests leads to […]

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NFL: Patriots a big test for Tebow, Broncos

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos haven’t been to the playoffs since 2006, so they’re in no position and certainly no mood to judge the quality of the opponents they’re dispatching with all this last-minute magic.