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Friendship with sinners, part two

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Editor’s Note: This is part two of an article submitted by Rev. Dr. James Barnes. Luke 5:28 says he forsook everything. Why does Luke tell us that interesting fact? Because if you were a fisherman and followed Jesus and it didn’t work out you could always go back to fishing. But once you walk away from a tax franchise, there is no turning back, someone else would have taken over your tax booth and there would be nothing to go back to. So when Luke says he forsook all, he meant it. There was no return. Levi abandons everything which had been everything. That is the kind of man ...

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US must investigate Biden’s autopen decisions To the Editor: Throughout President Biden’s four-year term, many people noticed his serious cognitive decline. The real question is whether he actually made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him. Of course, Biden’s staff denied Biden’s mental acuity problem. Their strategy was to hide the truth coupled with concerted steps to prevent the public from observing reality. It seems to me as Biden was losing control of himself throughout his time in office, his executive actions, especially pardons, cannot all be ...

A duck of a good prank

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Christopher Beers and his cohorts from Grandpa’s Joe’s were out and about before the quack of dawn a few weeks back to pull off a caper unlike any other in Canonsburg. Angling to ruffle a few feathers, the candy shop owner and his team, under the cover of darkness, secretly planted 2,000 ...

One shot and many memories

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Last weekend, while hiking in the woods, I was surprised to realize that hunting season now includes Sundays. I was ill-prepared: tromping through the trees in a brown sweater, my dogs bounding about with no safety gear. It had been a long time since I’d been in the woods as a hunter, and somehow, I’d missed the memo. That realization sent me down memory lane to my short and fearless stint as a hunter. The “fearless” part is said entirely tongue-in-cheek. What I did have was time with my dad, uncles, and cousins, and those hours were worth more than any trophy. Hunting season ...

Animal protections need improvement

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Over the years, television has provided an accurate perspective of the problem — “affliction” sometimes might be the better descriptive word — of hoarding. We’re referring to people who have, in essence, ruined their lives, homes and also, perhaps, relationships because of having collected and having remained hellbent on continuing to collect virtual “mountains” of household and other items “too good” to throw away, sell or give away. In many of the sad and otherwise troubling situations upon which television has focused, homes had become such a repository for the ...

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State government allowing abortion is wrong To the Editor: It seems that killing babies is a winning issue in American elections these days. The three Supreme Court Justices up for retention in Pennsylvania join in ads boldly stating they will continue to protect the right of women to kill their babies (even though judges are supposed to be impartial and usually are in promoting themselves in elections). The fliers of the opposition supporting a ‘NO’ vote on retention conspicuously avoid the abortion issue, referring to other flawed positions of the current judges. They ...