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There are only a few things artificial that I like — one is sweetener and the other is a Christmas tree. I’ll tell you some artificial things that I don’t like — turf and intelligence. Artificial intelligence can do many things, but count me as being on the side of caution in terms of when…

The other day I crossed the Roubidoux River and thought about Lane Davis. Lane was the longtime owner and editor of the Houston Herald newspaper and he hired me to paddle him down the Roubidoux, where he loved to fish. When I was about 14 years old, I was a 50-cent-an-hour guide, and for local…

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November 22 of this year marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. When I was born, the event had happened a mere 15 years before. By the time I was a teenager and the Oliver Stone movie JFK came out, I became hooked. Obsessed might be a better word. I…

There’s an old model ’97 Winchester pump shotgun hanging on my office wall. It is old and scarred, a long-barreled relic from the good old days of my boyhood. In the fall, when the Ozarks was bathed in beautiful colors and there was a frost at dawn and a nip in the air, they’d hold…

In the late 1990s, I got excited when the news came out that the Star Wars franchise would resume movie production, that George Lucsa was going to produce the prequel trilogy to the orignal 1970s/1980s saga that I had grown up loving. And it was fine. Not great, but fine. Then it really started happening:…

One of the oldest tenets of politics is to divide and conquer, and no one is better at the game than America’s hard left which has found success by pitting one against another on the basis of race, economic differences, or social preferences. The purpose is to provide a banner under which to gather while…

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the blessings we have in our lives and to share memories with our loved ones. We are thankful because we can provide you and your family with services, benefits, tools, and information to help you throughout life’s journey. Social Security is more than just a retirement program. We…

As I talk to outdoorsmen around the Ozarks it is amazing how ignorant they are about their rights as hunters and fishermen. The greater percentage of those I talk to wrongly believe that agents can come into their homes or buildings whenever they want. Randy Doman, the enforcement chief of the Missouri Department of Conservation…

It was your average week in American news: a celebrity death, a mass shooter who had been previously reported as being unhinged, and a somewhat inexplicably divided American opinion on Hamas killing Israelis at a rave. And….cue the debates on everything. Because nothing just happens anymore. It happens, news agencies respond with competitive, aggressive desires…