When You Wish Upon A Star
Long before the moon landing and Woodstock, there was one historically significant event in a small California town that helped shape the...
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Rick Townley
Jun 4, 20141 min read
The Shadow People
Around here, summer starts when school ends and ends when school starts. That makes summertime officially from end of May to mid-August....
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Rick Townley
Mar 8, 20133 min read
The Backstory: zero tolerance and Pop-Tarts
The real epidemic in America is the rise of stupidity. Political correctness, zero tolerance rules followed to the absurd and ill-advised...
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Rick Townley
Dec 20, 20122 min read
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
Mar 9, 20123 min read
School Daze: 1962 vs. 2012
Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack....
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