The Backstory: banning assault weapons
You may wonder why I decided to do a WTC column about guns less than a week before Christmas. For the answer we have to go back to around...
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Rick Townley
Dec 17, 20123 min read
The Backstory: insensitive anti-gun lobbyists
When writing for a public forum like the Washington Times Communities we are expected to apply proper decorum to our words and thoughts,...
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Rick Townley
Dec 15, 20121 min read
The Backstory: the massacre in Newtown, CT
No backstory today. I simply urge everyone to pray for the victims of this nightmarish tragedy, and keep praying for the safety of all...
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Rick Townley
Dec 13, 20122 min read
The Backstory: truth in advertising and faux status
There is actually quite a bit of truth in today’s WTC story. I do drive a small sports car, I enjoy the back roads of Alabama, Florida...
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Rick Townley
Dec 11, 20122 min read
The Backstory: The most irritating Christmas songs
I have my own in-house Christmas Muzak system in the form of a 7-year-old granddaughter who won’t stop singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed...
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Rick Townley
Dec 6, 20122 min read
The Backstory: the UN and “rights” of the disabled
The story about the UN treaty on the disabled caught my attention because I am disabled. That’s not a well-known fact and I don’t make a...
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Rick Townley
Dec 3, 20122 min read
The Backstory: fiscal cliff or lack of leadership?
I tried to stay out of this whole fiscal thing, I really did. Economic issues can be interesting, but not a few weeks into the Christmas...
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Rick Townley
Nov 30, 20122 min read
The Backstory: Cyber Monday and credit cards
While today’s column on the Washington Times Community about credit cards was made up, the facts and figures are true and come from...
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Rick Townley
Nov 27, 20121 min read
The Backstory: sleeping at airports
I initially read about Napcabs on a helpful site called Airports Made Simple. I found the information really interesting and, after...
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Rick Townley
Nov 24, 20122 min read
The Backstory: table manners for the holidays
I am part of the last generation to grew up with a lot of rules about personal conduct. We had dress codes at school and couldn’t wear...
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Rick Townley
Nov 21, 20122 min read
The Backstory: going cold turkey on Thanksgiving?
From WTC, November 22, 2012 – This is actually an updated piece I borrowed from the book, For Boomers Only, that came out last year. I...
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Rick Townley
Nov 20, 20122 min read
The Backstory: no white sales on Black Friday?
I started my post-college career in retail and spent a number of years as the manager of a high volume bookstore in a busy suburban mall....
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Rick Townley
Nov 17, 20122 min read
The Backstory: Gaza, Benghazi, the fiscal cliff and no Twinkies
There actually isn’t much of a backstory to Friday’s column except to note that it had been overcast for several days, I was trying to...
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Rick Townley
Nov 14, 20122 min read
The Backstory: Petraeus and his (not so) little scandal
November 14, 2012 – Today’s WTC column about Gen. David Petraeus makes fun of men and their affairs, but the situation with Petraeus...
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Rick Townley
Nov 12, 20122 min read
The Backstory
Welcome to my newest blog site where you will find the backstory on my columns for The Washington Times Community – where ideas come...
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