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How you view things depends not only on what you look at, but on where you are looking from. Perspective matters.
Take the price of gasoline, for instance. To Abigail, my daughter, the price of …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/29/26
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It may surprise you to learn that President Donald Trump and all Republicans are for gun control. They are also for gun confiscation. With one caveat. Gun control and confiscation for felons and …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/22/26
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Mistakes are unavoidable in government, business, and the game of life. The trick is to learn from those errors, make quick adjustments, and move on.
The news is full of errors that major …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/15/26
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Like most of my friends, I found history in high school uninteresting, to say the least. Really, it was boring. As I remember it, no one liked our history class. But you had to take it to graduate.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/8/26
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Government 101. Time for a refresher course concerning Missouri government and our constitution.
In Missouri, there are three ways to amend the constitution: legislative proposals, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/1/26
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One thing that makes the United States of America unique is that it is made up of 50 individual states. These states share many similarities with how they are run, but no two are identical.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/25/26
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At a funeral I attended a couple of years ago, the priest commented in his homily that “simple ordinary goodness does not make the news.” I’m here to set the record straight.
In today’s …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/18/26
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By the time you read this column I — on Aug. 4 along with my immediate family and many of you — will have driven to my polling location, presented my drivers license to the poll worker, placed my …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/11/26
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The term “big tent” to describe the Democrat Party has been around for as long as I can remember, but it gained significant traction in the 1980s and 1990s. Political analysts and party leaders, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/11/26
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A report from February 2025 says the typical person has 1,598 pictures saved on their cell phone. My iPhone currently has 3,966 photos stored on it. Apparently I’m an overachiever when it …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/28/26
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Advertising on TV promoting vote “Yes” on Amendment 5 sprang up almost the instant Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the order to place it on the August primary ballot.
That was my first gut feeling …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/21/26
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In 1787 American’s Founding Fathers completed the Constitution of the United States at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The U.S. Constitution is the oldest national constitution in the world.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/14/26
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Elon Musk, with the initial public offering (IPO)of SpaceX last month, became the world’s first trillionaire in terms of U.S. dollars. This could happen only in America.
Born in Pretoria, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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7/7/26
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I can’t believe I get to live here. Thank you Lord. #GodBlessAmerica #Grateful. Those are the words on an Instagram post by country and western singer Carrie Underwood. In the video — about …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/30/26
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It was 1988 when Peggy McIntosh of Wellesley College wrote her essay on “White Privilege.” where she listed 50 “daily effects of white privilege in her life.”
Her list includes such …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/23/26
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I have covered the subject of today’s column before, but it’s worth revisiting now that another clear example is in the national news.
It is easy to understand. When a social …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/16/26
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In 2012 the Missouri Press Convention was held in Columbia. Connie and I packed up quickly — after an awards luncheon — to return home for a barbecue hosted by the Gasconade County Republican …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/9/26
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The old saying goes, “Actions speak louder than words.” And of course it is true. You can always tell more about who someone is and what their intentions are by what they do, not what they say.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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6/2/26
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One of the benefits of attending a top-ranked university, like the University of Missouri in Columbia, is the speakers and entertainment they bring in.
In my four years of attendance — plus …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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5/26/26
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Some Christian philosophers contend that evil is simply the absence of good. According to Wikipedia, “This is known as the privation theory of evil, a theological and philosophical doctrine that …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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5/19/26
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