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By Dr. Raymond Youngblood Jr.

Trust yourself to fix it. Last week I wrote about the “Federal Reserve Bank (You can’t get blood from a turnip)” I will complete that article next week when I receive the vital information requested from the federal government. So this week, please allow me to provide some needed information to business owners about their shops.

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By Rich Lowry

It's never a good idea to negotiate with a hostage - taker, but when it's a NATO ally, there isn't much choice.

The Trump administration has been trying to get back a Christian pastor detained in Turkey since October 2016, and when a possible deal at the sidelines of the NATO summit fell through, decided to drop the hammer.

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By Dr. Raymond Youngblood Jr.

By Rich Lowry

It's begun. We are having a debate over socialism.

Not over whether it's fair to call Democrats socialists. Not over whether socialism has been good for Venezuela or some other faraway, unfortunate country. But socialist policies right here in the United States.

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By Jeff Landry

Over recent months, Congressional Democrats have played politics with a humanitarian and national security crisis. Instead of seeking constructive dialogue to solve the problems at our southern border, the Left have used the situation to attack President Trump. This failure to work with Republicans has escalated recently into complete disregard for the rule of law and those who protect and serve.

In order to address the problem, we must understand how it arose. The Obama catch-and-release policy, which allowed criminals to be freed from detention while they are involved in removal proceedings, gave notice to all potential illegal aliens that kids would provide get-outof-jail-free cards. After being released from custody - the large majority disappear throughout our county and never return to court, unless they are arrested again for committing another crime.

By Dr. Raymond Youngblood Jr.

What In The Heck Is A Fiduciary Somebody wants to make you a Fiduciary, what in the heck is a fiduciary. We country folks know it as a Power of Attorney. You can hear your cousin em' bragging, "We mommy's power of attorney." Fiduciary merely means someone known as the “Principal” has/is giving you LEGAL AUTHORITY to decide on their asset (cash in any form, property in any kind). That fiduciary responsibility can be limited to a certain amount or specific things. It can cover all things and everything belonging to the Principal. Once you are the Fiduciary, you are the manager to care for the Principal.

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By Bob Franken

For those who thought "acronym" was a city in Ohio, it is not. According to my handy dandy online dictionary, an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word," as in WAC from Women's Army Corps or OPEC from Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Or MAGA, as in Make America Great Again, the Donald Trump campaign slogan splattered across red baseball hats worn by millions of Americans, mostly white, mostly intolerant, who have bought into the Trumpster's garbage that America should return to the glory days where their rigid biases oppressed everyone else. Actually, the Trump cabal is already hard at work on his re-election effort, and that means a new slogan for 2020, something that captures the regressive spirit of his first term and, more importantly, fits on a red baseball hat.