Editorial Let Phelps Speak and the Right to Dissent
The Topeka editorial condemns Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church for picketing funerals with hate speech. It argues that city councils should not muzzle extreme opinions and that only legal violations justify government action, noting Phelps seeks attention and the public should sort fact from rhetoric.
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Topeka
America
Phelps
Gage Park
Joel Stottlemire
Osama bin Laden
bin Laden
Stottlemire
Associated Press
Garfield Elementary concert inspires community pride
Jim Starkey commends Garfield Elementary School for a 200-child patriotic concert aged 5 to 11. He notes Andrew Lanning’s solo, student announcers, packed auditorium, emotional reactions, and gratitude to Mrs Christner Mrs Kuehn and staff for organizing the event on short notice.
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Garfield
Andrew Lanning
Christner
Shootout raises $8600 for RMH charity golf event
The Ransom Memorial Hospital Charitable Association Million Dollar Golf Shoot Out raised more than $8,600 from over 100 golfers and numerous sponsors including United Imaging Consultants Faultless Healthcare Olathe Medical Center Lockton Companies People's National Bank NCD Corporation and others. Volunteers and staff were thanked for organizing and staffing the event while funds will bolster RMH patient care technology and programs.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital Charitable Association
United Imaging Consultants
Faultless Healthcare
Olathe Medical Center
Lockton Companies
People’s National
Erin Chappell
Penny Andrews
Linda Reed
Jim Palmer
Kelly McDermott
Reader Forum Submissions Guidelines at Ottawa Herald
Readers are invited to submit opinions to the Reader Forum. Letters must be hand signed with the author's address and telephone number. Send to Reader Forum The Ottawa Herald 104 S Cedar Ottawa Kansas or email letters ottawaherald.com.
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Otawa
Attack spawns flawed economic theories
National emergencies prompt flawed economic answers and wars as growth. Paul Krugman and others push claims that destruction or big spending boost wealth, but economist Richard Salsman argues the opposite. He cites the broken window fallacy, tax cuts for producers, and selective military spending as the better path to growth, while warning against broad stimulus and wasted programs.
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Paul Krugman
New York Times
Krugman
Osama bin Laden
America
Richard Salsman
Cambridge
Mass
Salsman
John Maynard Keynes
Washington
U.S
Israel a Lesson in How Not To Fight Terrorism
Opinion argues Israel’s tactics provoke more violence and fail to halt Palestinian uprising. It cites repeated assassinations, arrests, land seizures, and torture, calling for ending U.S. aid and veto protection to a state that supposedly survives without American funds.
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East Jerusalem
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
U.N
United Nations
Palestine
America
United States
U.S
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