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Read down in the link and you'll find extensive coverage of Mike Huckabee's appearance shortly after his announcement for president on Tim Russert. The writer came away favorably impressed by Huckabee's likable speaking style -- he calls him "the human apple pie." He also related a story told by Huckabee that we don't recall reading about in local media. Finally he tells us the story of Martha, a school teacher in Little Rock, who took all the desks away from her students one morning and said she wouldn’t give them back until they figured out how they’d earned them. Nobody could come up with the answer, and the story grew throughout the day, until by the afternoon the news media were camped out in the classroom with the puzzled students, and Martha opened the door and in walked 27 veterans, each one carrying a desk, and Martha says this is how you earned them; never forget those who were willing to shed their blood for you.
CREW Files Second Complaint against Living Word Christian Center
WASHINGTON - February 8 - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against the Living Word Christian Center (LWCC), in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. This is the second complaint CREW has filed against the LWCC. CREWs complaint alleges that the LWCC, organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), has engaged in illegal financial transactions with LWCCs senior pastor and founder, James "Mac" Hammond, in which Hammond has profited from the churchs activities. Hammond and his wife are two of the seven members of the LWCCs board of trustees, making them insiders under federal tax law. Tax law prohibits insiders from benefitting from a 501(c)(3) organization. Loan documents given to CREW by the blog Minnesota Monitor show that LWCC showered Hammond with favorable financial deals, including a scheme under which Hammond purchased a plane, partially on credit, from the church and then leased it back.
LET'S GO: Mall Walk is Saturday
Send us your go, do and see event:
Are you, your group, community or village planning a fun activity the public can attend? Wed like to let our readers know about your plans. Send us the time, date and place for the festivities by e-mail to jsteven@marionstar.com or mail them to Marion Events, The Marion Star, 150 Court St., Marion, OH 43302. Following is your listing of go, do and see things for the Marion area: Feb. 9 Soup Supper: 4-7 p.m., Lee St. Presbyterian Church, 455 Lee St. Freewill donation. Potato and vegetable soup, chili chicken sandwiches hotdogs and dessert. Feb. 9 Songs from the Heart: 8 p.m., in River Valley High School auditorium, a cappella valentine to community. Proceeds will benefit the three student-run organizations. Featured are The New Rhythm Boys from River Valley High School, InChant from The Ohio State University at Marion and The Bubs from Tufts University.
Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist
The people he associated with were as ill-educated, volatile, and undisciplined as himself. No one in his circle had the intellectual command to put his chosen authorities in their place as what they were: disreputable and even comical mountebanks. Normally a society can tolerate, even look benignly upon, a layer of autodidacts and cranks on the fringes of its intellectual institutions. What is singular about the career of Hitler is that through a confluence of events in which luck played some part, he was able not only to spread his nonsensical philosophy among his German countrymen but to put it into practice across Europe, with consequences known to all. By his own account, Hitler turned political only in late 1918, when, upon hearing that Germany had surrendered on humiliating terms, he vowed to dedicate himself at all costs to winning back for the Fatherland its rightful place in Europe.
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