Funeral services for Erma Sheffield, 76, of Little Rock and formerly of Helena-West Helena will be held 11 a.m. Monday July 6, 2009, at the Mabelvale Church of Christ at 10820 Mabelvale West in Mabelvale.
Funeral services for Andrew "Drew" Chestnut, Sr., 52, of Little Rock, will be held Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 2 p.m. at the Asbury M.B. Church in Marvell with the Rev. Roger Daily officiating.
We hear terrible things all the time about kids out of control who murder or do something stupid like carjacking at age 14. It’s all over the news and astonishes us every time we hear about the teen jailbirds.
When General Motors announced this week that it would discontinue production of the Pontiac it brought back memories of my first car – a 1963 Pontiac Tempest Lemans.
And you thought “When Animals Attack” was scary. With the news flooded with stories of the latest terrifying threat to our health, I can’t help but wonder, is there any animal when can really trust?
Will wonders ever cease? The ever increasingly liberal Supreme Court has ruled, by a 5-4 decision no less, that the American people do not have to sit in their living rooms nightly and be bombarded with filthy and vulgar language on television.
In light of the chronic complaints about lethal injection being “cruel and unusual punishment”, this In The News item in Tuesday’s Arkansas Democrat/Gazette caught my attention:
It is common practice to generalize, to reduce whole philosophies and belief systems to a one-sentence sound bite or a buzzword to make it more easily digested by the masses.
There’s a short and sweet version for everything. It either is or isn’t and the same goes for the state’s Freedom of Information Act, lovingly called the FOIA.
There is an absolute truth. Believe it. Take it to the bank.
On any sunny day, the sky is blue. And on any given spring day, the grass is green. You can argue on these two facts until you turn purple but a fact is a fact and believing otherwise will not change a thing. The truth does not change just because we don’t like it.
Well, here we go again.
Those are the immortal words former President Ronald Reagan uttered when he faced opposition from Congress or criticism from the media.
“Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension, which is only relieved by the explosive force of thunder and lightning. In human affairs there must be a clear distinction between the penalties for small and great crimes.
It’s no small wonder watching children grow. When they’re very young, they learn by leaps and bounds and the things they learn shape their whole lives.