Turning disability into a virtue

Kendrick Meek and Francesca Yabraian are two fighters in a vast army that has been waging war against a common foe, for what seems like forever.

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Letter: Hettinger Public School appreciates NIE

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Time magazine founder would have been mortified

Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy. He saw the 20th century as “the first great American century.” He would have wanted the United States to lead in the current era as well.

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Hey, Time, we are a tolerant nation toward Muslims

“Is America Islamophobic?”

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Letter: Local emergency care second to none

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We've got it so good

I’d like to tell you about a man that not many knew.

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No need to tolerate intolerant people

“We are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week. “There is nowhere in the five boroughs of New York City that is off limits to any religion.”

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Bush had right idea about Islam after 9/11

Just days after the Twin Towers were destroyed in 2001, President George W. Bush set the tone that ought to govern U.S. attitudes in the New York mosque controversy today.

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Letter: Just ponder the country’s oil usage

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What would GOP choose?

The most important issue in American politics now is figuring out what concrete actions Republicans would take if they return to power.

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Labor unions to thank for so much

Sept. 6 will be the least respected holiday on the North Dakota social calendar. That’s the first Monday in September, first designated by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 as Labor Day. We’ll gladly take the day off, thank you, but without any recognition of labor.

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Violent Muslims free from the mainstream media

Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I haven’t heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about civil rights activists descending on Mississippi. So who are these interlopers stirring up the unwashed masses? It’s anyone who dares criticize plans for an Islamic center near Ground Zero in Manhattan. According to reporter Jason Horowitz, New Yorkers take a “dim view” of them.

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Letter: North Dakota should eliminate property taxes

School in North Dakota is starting and a Legislative subcommittee is considering funding of K-12 education by other than property tax. The 2009 Legislature passed a law requiring local school districts to reduce mill levies by 20 percent with state general fund money. The results lowered school property assessment. Many of us still saw our overall property tax bill go up!

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Stem cell studies highly valuable

To all real journalists: Stop being such cowards