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Mark Twain offers insight on latest web of lies | Whale’s Tales
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” said American writer and humorist Mark Twain.
Robert Whale
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A couple of wishes as we start another year | Whale’s Tales
As I’ve said before in this column, I am not much into making new year’s resolutions.
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Grateful for nurses because they keep us alive | Whale’s Tales
My mother was a registered nurse for nearly 50 years.
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Searching for truth in a world of manipulation | Whale’s Tales
The word pops up from time to time, but most of us are unlikely to pay it much…
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What’s happening was never what the founders intended | Whale’s Tales
An object may lean only so far to one side before it goes over, unless set upright again.
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Fault finding and political violence in today’s America | Whale’s Tales
The murder of political activist Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, on Sept 10 at…
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Lessons from ‘Black Like Me’ have stayed with me | Whale’s Tales
I first read John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me” in Mrs. Dickinson’s seventh-grade English class at Cascade Junior…
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Revenge and score settling have no place in leadership | Whale’s Tales
In parts of the world, lives and battles lost more than 1,000 years ago still get human blood…
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This executive overreach should scare all Americans | Whale’s Tales
As most of us learned at school, the U.S. Constitution requires a supermajority of three-fourths of the states…
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Wacky weather conspiracy theorists strike again | Whale’s Tales
The initial news was grim enough on its own: flash flooding in Central Texas had taken dozens of…
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First Amendment thoughts ahead of weekend protests | Whale’s Tales
For all their flaws, the founders of the United States were brilliant.
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The concept of ‘habeas corpus’ deserves a closer look | Whale’s Tales
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently defined habeas corpus before a congressional hearing as “the right…
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Sometimes a politician’s instincts just stink | Whale’s Tales
Among the fascinating relatives of the noun “instinct” is the German term “Fingerspitzengefühl.”
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Still proud to be a word nerd after all these years | Whale’s Tales
My brothers and sisters tell me they have also been called to account for using “big words.”
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Tapping into the power of mental flexibility | Whale’s Tales
At this moment, many of our distracted countrymen glare at each other over a rigid barrier of hardened…
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A look at the fool’s potential radius of destruction | Whale’s Tales
Ever since it invented the skid steer loader in 1960, the Bobcat Company claims on its website, it…
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Looking through the rear-view mirror in my mind | Whale’s Tales
Road trips through the heart of Eastern Washington’s one-horse towns are among the most treasured memories of my…
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A serious bone to pick with the powers that be | Whale’s Tales
Questioning methods, as I see it, has nothing to do with politics or personal animosities.
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Pondering life and death on this side of eternity | Whale’s Tales
I no longer fear death itself, but I could do without dying.