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No brag, just fact

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Friday, August 28. 2015

By Michael Ruffin

The year was 1974.

George Roy Hill had just won the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on the wonderful film The Sting when he received the following letter: [Full Story »]

Come together

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, August 12. 2015

By Michael Ruffin

Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the graduation of my class at Lamar County High School, the Class of 1976. The 1975-76 school year was the first year classes were held at the “new” high school, so we were the first class to graduate from there.

I wasn’t there, though.

Well, I was there for our graduation, but I wasn’t there for our senior year. [Full Story »]

The lion's share of the coverage

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, August 5. 2015

Augusta Chronicle

As far as God’s creations go, Cecil the lion was about as beautiful and majestic as they get. But he wasn’t human.

So why is the animal’s untimely killing in Zimbabwe by a Minnesota dentist on a big-game “hunt” seeming to spark more outrage than the industrial-scale murder of unborn human babies and the depraved marketing of their organs?

That is what seems to have happened since the Center for Medical Progress released its third and most gruesome undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts brokerage. [Full Story »]