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Speak Out: Boston Marathon horror
America was still grieving over the horrific incident in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting when the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than a hundred, some severe. The waves of violence don’t stop in this country. It’s like an infestation. It gives the sick feeling of a lack of safety.
May 23, 2013 |  0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: Bentley should stick to his word
When Bob Riley was governor, the Supreme Court gave him ultimate power over the gambling issue. That move by the court was unprecedented, but a lot of rulings by the Supreme Court concerning gambling have been unprecedented when it comes to siding with Riley.
May 22, 2013 |  0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: We can learn
As the sounds of the Lt. Dan Band floated up to me Sunday evening, I had bittersweet thoughts of mothers everywhere receiving telegrams or visits. I imagined holding the yellowed Western Union that my mother, eight months pregnant with me, got in 1950 announcing the death of her husband in Korea, less than two months after he had said goodbye.
May 22, 2013 |  0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: Progress in civil rights
The news has been full of the Boston bombing and the rapid identification of the suspects. Contrast this with the 50 bombings of black homes in Birmingham in the late 1940s and 1950s. Police reports continued to state there was “not enough evidence” to enable them to search for the perpetrators.
May 21, 2013 |  0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: Reason behind HB57
Gov. Robert Bentley and state legislators have been praised for passing the Women’s Health and Safety Act, HB57. The bill, now law, has nothing whatsoever to do with women’s health or safety.
May 20, 2013 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: Alabama’s National Guard
While I support the men and women of the Alabama National Guard, I question the use of money from the Alabama Trust Fund to build, maintain or repair armories. The Alabama National Guard ceased being state militias in 1958 when state control was subjugated to federal authority.
May 20, 2013 |  0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: State lottery better than food tax
When are you, Gov. Robert Bentley, going to take a stand on the most oppressive and sinful tax imposed on the people of the great state of Alabama?
May 19, 2013 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Speak Out: The best and worst of May
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May 17, 2013 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
The month of May presents significant events that have impacted Alabama nationally and locally, with the preservation of a positive or negative image. Two events are celebrated nationwide with high honors like Mother’s Day on the 12th and Memorial Day on the 27th.
Speak Out: Setting a standard
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May 17, 2013 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Recently, I had a family issue involving document changes that I could not get resolved no matter who I turned to. I went to see Eli Henderson, the new Calhoun County Circuit Clerk.
Speak Out: Too much ‘big brotherism’
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May 16, 2013 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
I recently read in The Anniston Star that the city of Anniston has imposed further restrictions on smoking throughout the city. The total ban of smoking in restaurants and bars is what I take umbrage with.
Speak Out: What is truth?
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May 16, 2013 |  0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Even a simple-minded person knows the opposite of truth is a lie or bondage. In the Bible, John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” John 8:32 says, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. You will not be in bondage any longer.”
Speak Out: A tribute to law enforcement
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May 15, 2013 |  0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office saw the need for a better way to recognize law enforcement officers, their families and other community members. In January 2007, that need was filled by the creation of the Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard and Pipe and Drum Corps.
Speak Out: Bury the bomber at sea
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May 14, 2013 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
I wish to express my deepest heartfelt feelings concerning the burial of Tamerlan Tsarneav in American soil. Too many servicemen and women have given their lives to ensure that we can live in a country as great as America. Their bodies have been buried all over the world, not to mention other great Americans that helped to preserve the great freedoms that are guaranteed to each of us.
Speak Out: Misunderstanding Islam
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May 14, 2013 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers is an erudite world traveler, but his Sunday column showed an astounding naiveté on the nature of today’s Islam, an ignorance which is part of the problem of dealing with the small minority of Muslims who are radical jihadists.

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