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Immigration bill
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune 
Our two U.S. senators, Kit Bond and Jim Talent, confirmed their roles among the most conservative members of Congress when they held out against the more balanced immigration bill passed recently by the Senate.

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‘N-word’ never was a friendly expression, and it never will be
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
No transcript is known to survive, but it is reasonable to assume that when a mob of white men lynched a black man named Sam Hose, cut off his fingers, ears and genitals and skinned his face in 1899, they used the N-word.

Life is meant to be lived in the present
BY CHARLEY REESE
I don’t feel guilty about slavery. I don’t feel guilty about the fate of American Indians. In fact, I don’t feel guilty about anything that happened before the date of my birth.

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