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Tuesday letters: Hacking exposes us for many years

In October 2012, I received a phone call from a man with a slight foreign accent claiming to be from my insurance company and asking for my date of birth. I told him that if he was from my insurance company he would know the answer to that question. He told me they needed to verify that I was actually...

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Tuesday letters: Religion, science should embrace

Earth spins about 1,000 miles an hour as it orbits its yearly path around the sun at approximately 66,000 miles an hour — well over 1 million miles a day.

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Monday letters: Arts critical for our state, lives

Do you listen to music?

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Monday letters: Don’t neglect important issues

Satan, as represented by John Milton’s Paradise Lost, sums up his new job description: “To do aught good will never be our task, But ever to do ill shall be our sole delight, As being contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth...

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Monday letters: What’s the truth in Ninety Six?

It is sad that Catherine Templeton, the director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, is defending her department rather than addressing the confusion that attends to the recent tuberculosis outbreak in Ninety Six.

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Monday letters: Go meatless — and live longer

A recent issue of Time magazine brings more documentation that vegetarians live longer than their meat-chomping friends.

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Sunday letters: Here’s how I got Obamaphobia

I read all the symptoms (“Obamaphobia gripping U.S.,” Wednesday) and realize I contracted Obamaphobia for the following reasons: Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS scandal, tapping phones and email, Obamacare. No one, including the attorney general, knows anything, and nobody is held ...

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Sunday letters: Daddies, read to your children

I remember my Daddy teaching me one and only one Bible lesson when I was very young. As I was walking through the hall of our home in the 1940, he picked up the Bible off of Grandmama’s desk and said, “Honey, I want to show you something.”

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Sunday letters: That’s just what fathers do

Father’s Day again, time for the family to get together to honor Dad. It’s time to grill burgers, franks and steaks. Time to catch up with friends and family you haven’t seen in a while. It’s time to enjoy a cocktail or two while munching on chips and dip. It’s...

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Friday letters: Poor finding it tough to get care

In October of 2012, a friend was being treated at a local family and urgent-care facility for what the doctor thought was bronchitis. It turned out to be heart disease. She had all the symptoms of bronchitis — she was coughing, her breathing was hard and labored, and her blood pressure and...