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See who won the Mirror Ball Trophy on Dancing With The Stars (VIDEO)
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Obama's endlessly loose ends
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Applying intuition and common sense to the gun debate
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Back to the Roots – Mushrooms and Aquaponics
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IRS, Benghazi, and AP scandals are poison to the democratic process
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Masa activists should pay their own way
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Oklahoma tornado saves President Obama
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The importance of relationships in Chinese society
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Tornadoes: Knowing more about them
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Domestic violence is not only on the rise, it is pandemic
Dave Bartruff
California-based Dave Bartruff is an award-winning photojournalist who has traveled to more than ninety countries.
Column Description: “Faraway places with strange-sounding names” is my middle name. I’d like to introduce myself to you as often as I can.
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Political Potpourri
A collection of reader guest articles, thoughts and opinions by Communities writers and breaking news and information.
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Obama's endlessly loose ends
Benghazi, the IRS, the AP - Obama had nothing to do with any of them. He knows nothing about them. They're just messy loose ends.
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Applying intuition and common sense to the gun debate
The gun ban movement has always had a problem with statistics: Statistics don’t support their intuition.
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President Obama popular despite IRS, Benghazi, AP scandals
After possibly the worst week of the Obama administration, new polls show that the President has escaped relatively unscathed.
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Holder’s hot seat: A rogue IRS and a ‘leaky’ White House
"This will not be about parties, this will not be about ideological persuasions. Anybody who has broken the law will be held accountable."
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Obama's endlessly loose ends
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Culinary Quest
Great discoveries in the world of restaurants and chefs fulfill the quest for delicious food and cooking.
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Right Angles
“Right Angles” explores serious subjects, such as the Islamization of the Middle East and delegitimization of Israel, with humor, candor and a twist.
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World View
Columns from Voices around the World talking about the events, people, politics and social issues that concern us wherever, and whoever, we are.
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Steps to Authentic Happiness via Positive Psychology
Happiness is attainable. Morning to night. I love to teach, deal with folks that have an issue and really wish to tackle it and write.
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TV Den
Television commentary, reviews, news and nonstop DVR catch-up.
Recent Entries by Dave Bartruff
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Jerusalem Walk to Easter: In the Footsteps of Jesus
Published 4:50 p.m. March 23, 2013
For over 2,000 years Christians from around the world have been drawn to Jerusalem to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
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Traveling the Antarctic where dreams come true
Published 5:51 p.m. January 13, 2013
Truly we’d found our “pot of gold” on board the Antarctic Dream,
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Images of Bethlehem: The Story of the Christ Child
Published 12:38 a.m. December 13, 2012
Joseph and Mary left Nazareth for Bethlehem. Mary who was with child, and close to the birth, rode on a donkey while Joseph walked beside her.
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Call Of The Crimea: From the Shores of the Black Sea Riviera
Published 9:06 p.m. November 19, 2012
“Eureka, I have found it!” How else could a California 49er celebrate his long sought-after Crimean treasure that I had marveled for in the pages of books?
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Tsushima Maru Requiem: Japan’s untold WWII tragedy of Titanic proportions
Published 2:23 a.m. August 23, 2012
August 22, 1944, at the height of World War II in the Pacific, the Japanese tramp steamer Tsushima Maru sailed out of the port of Naha, Okinawa, a 1,000 miles south of Tokyo.
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Hiroshima: Images of Peace Park memorial to the lives lost
Published 12:31 p.m. August 6, 2012
As thousand of colorful origami cranes, created in honor of a young girl Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia following the bombing, flutter in the wind, so does all our hopes for world peace .
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Sweden's Crystal Kingdom (Slideshow)
Published 8:15 a.m. October 20, 2011
In the pristine southeast coast of Sweden you come upon a glorious fairytale land. Its name is Crystal Kingdom.
