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Knowing Who’s On Your Airplane

Froma Harrop - December 31, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP I don’t know about you, but I’d like to think that the feds have screened the other passengers sitting on my airplane. To do that, they also have to screen me. That’s the deal. In America, any state-issued driver’s license had long been acceptable ID for passing security checks at airports. That […]

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Missing Mayberry

David Perryman - December 29, 2015 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN Rascal Flatts’ 2003 song Mayberry laments a society of constant toil and unmoderated pursuit of “more of everything” and is reminiscent of...

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‘Bond Predators’ On Puerto Rican Debt Want Their Bailout

Froma Harrop - December 29, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP Puerto Rico is sinking in $73 billion of debt. Mired in a long-running depression, the U.S. territory has already cut essential services to bare bones. Puerto Rico can’t fully pay its bondholders without setting off total economic collapse. One of two things can happen, short of doing nothing and setting off a […]

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Knowledge Helps … If You Want It To

Vern Turner - December 28, 2015 0

BY VERN TURNER Too often we all start expostulating on things, including our own fears, without having a working knowledge of the topic at hand....

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Revolt Against Corruption

Sharon Martin - December 27, 2015 0

BY SHARON MARTIN Why should Oklahomans have to pay for the mistakes of their elected officials? Why should we suffer in understaffed schools, drive over...