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TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011  -  DARKE COUNTY REPUBLICAN MENS CLUB
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Faber to speak at Club's June 18 Meeting

State Senator Keith Faber (R-12) will be the featured speaker at the Darke County Republican Men’s Club Saturday, June 18. He holds the Number 2 leadership role in the Senate as its President Pro Tempore, and has been a proponent of fiscal responsibility throughout his career in Columbus. He was a member of the House of Representatives, Dist. 77, before being elected to the Senate. Faber was recently in Greenville with State Rep. Jim Buchy (R-77) for a Townhall meeting on the controversial SB5, which is currently the object of a petition for repeal in November. Ohio’s 12th Senate District includes Allen, Champaign, Mercer... Read More. See More Events.
dave knapp  
U.S. SENATE RACE 2012: BROWN VS... ?
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Cincinnati Enquirer...
Blackwell on Senate: ‘I can do this’

The Ohio Republican Party establishment may not like it, but, today, their front-running candidate for next year’s U.S. Senate campaign is Cincinnati Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell. All the polling says so, despite the drubbing Blackwell, a former Cincinnati mayor and Ohio Secretary of State, took in 2006, when he lost the governor’s office the GOP had held for 16 years to Democrat... Read More. See More News.

GREENVILLE TOASTMASTERS
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Keynote Motivational Speaker commemorates group’s 40th Anniversary

Active and inactive Toastmasters are invited to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Greenville Toastmasters Club #1238 on Saturday, July 9 in the Brick Room of the Brethren Retirement Community from 6:30-9:00 pm.  The celebration includes hors d’oeuvres, dinner, table topics with the charter members, and special keynote speaker Gary Mull. Gary Mull has earned the honor of... Read More. See More Events.
 
SIGNS ARE GOOD... IF YOU CAN READ
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Signs make things easier?

The big push a few years back was to make things easier.  Illiterate people, foreigners, and other people who just don’t understand would have it much better here in the US.  Signs, we’ll use signs, with pictures on them.  The big plus was that we would be like the rest of the world.  If we don’t want you to turn left, we put up a big left handed arrow with a slash through it.  The same for right handed no turns. Pretty simple... Read More. See More Opinion.

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION, FOLKS?
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msnbc.com...
‘Handcuffed by policy’: Fire crews watch man die
msnbc.com staff and news service reports

City policy changed after budget cuts cited as reason rescuers couldn’t act - SAN FRANCISCO — Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to... Read More. See More News.

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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM NO LONGER APPLIES
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Townhall... 
Why College is Not For Everyone
By Katie Kieffer

Peter Thiel is rocking the boat of higher education. The libertarian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal is sending liberal college administrators into a tizzy with his latest push to encourage young innovators to ditch college for two years and pursue entrepreneurship. Last week, Thiel awarded 20 young people
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A DEBATE WE'RE RELUCTANT TO HAVE
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Human Events...
What Must We Defend?
by  Patrick J. Buchanan

“We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people” about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. “(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things
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dave knapp  
NOTES FROM THE EDITOR  -  TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011
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Sen. Keith Faber will be joining us at the Republican Men's Club. Be sure to put it on your calendar. Seniors: start checking our Senior tab. Today’s article will bring back memories. News: Defenders of SB 5 organize to oppose repeal; John Boehner calls for debt deal in a month; and Obama Campaigns on Car Industry Bailout. Commissioners: No Meeting Memorial Day; Regular Meeting June 1, 2011. Events: Lunch to Go at Brethren Retirement Community. Senior Scribes: The Clothes Line. Letters: Rhoades... The issue was swimming in Greenville Creek; Stegall... Next Coffee with the Commissioner. Blogs: “Official Time” or Unofficial Scam? Your tax dollars for union business; Gates Turns Off the Lights; and Tea Partiers Unite! Nothing to Lose but... For Yesterday's Home Page Click Here.

 
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