Author: Hamous
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Thursday Open Comments
Unemployment is the fourth highest in the nation at 11.9%. Home foreclosure rate is the second highest in the nation with one in every 155 households receiving a notice. The population of your state saw its first decline since 1946 under your watch. The state is facing a budget hole of more than $3.5 billion.…
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Wednesday Open Comments
From Joe Carter (via Texpat): When Nothing Created Everything Throughout history people have been awed and thrilled by retellings of their culture’s creation story. Aztecs would tell of the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes, Phoenicians about the Zophashamin, and Jews and Christians about the one true God—Jehovah. But there is one unfortunate group—the children…
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December 7, 2010
“We started hearing someone tapping from inside the hull.” — Richard Fiske Richard Fiske was a Marine bugler serving on the battleship USS West Virginia at the time. The West Virginia suffered a crippling hit in the first few minutes of the attack and sank quickly. “There’s one thing I remember in particular. On Monday…