The OK Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents Program has a long list of qualifying factors for the successful bidder that doesn’t include such things as national recognition of workers, programs or training — but does include a number of established factors, including an already existing relationship with the Office of Juvenile Affairs. Since there is […]
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Wrongheaded war on drugs
They last protected us like this back in 2004: That law reduced meth problems at the time and refined criminal technique to the point that meth can now be made on a Wal-Mart shelf. There isn’t much intelligence in doing it at Wal-Mart, but criminal efforts are not based in brain power but in the […]
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An unforced life
So that he will have an unforced life, all he wants is to declare what constitutes science to be taught in the schools, define a group of citizens to be legally discriminated against, and bring our government in line with his interpretation of a book of disputed origins, purposes and contents. Perhaps our society will […]
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An unforced life
So that he will have an unforced life, all he wants is to declare what constitutes science to be taught in the schools, define a group of citizens to be legally discriminated against, and bring our government in line with his interpretation of a book of disputed origins, purposes and contents. Perhaps our society will […]
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Design unintelligent
Let’s look at Lake Yellowstone and a diatom species, for an example: All over the world, a diatom known as S. niagara can be found. However, if one takes a close look at the sediments of Lake Yellowstone beginning about 14,000 years back, one can see S. niagarae transform into S. yellowstonensis within 4,000 years […]
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Like a bridge over ignorant waters
His letter doesn’t grasp how evolution can be both a fact as observed in nature and exploited in energy and agriculture, while simultaneously being a well-supported theory describing the interrelated nature of all of life. His letter also fails to grasp that some fields of knowledge have limits either built in or beyond current understanding. […]
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Politics, American style
Politics seems to be keeping to traditional American style. In R.M. McVay’s July 28 Gazette letter, “U.S. at a crossroads,” we find that a health care system having a third of its citizens without insurance and largely without health care ” except for the most expensive and socialistic sort of emergency room treatment ” is […]
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Corrective details
Don Bye’s praise of Judy Wesselhoft and his personnel deity (Letters, “Wesselhoft’s letter refreshing,” Jan. 13, Gazette) deserves mention of a few corrective details. Without a tilt in our axis of some amount, areas of the earth would indeed freeze and others would bake. In all habitable zones, life should do as well it does […]