Last week, an employee at a Kentucky plastics plant quarreled with his supervisor - then got a .45-caliber pistol from his car and killed five plant employees before shooting himself.
Last week, an employee at a Kentucky plastics plant quarreled with his supervisor - then got a .45-caliber pistol from his car and killed five plant employees before shooting himself. That's a constant danger in pistol-polluted America, where any warped or bitter person may carry a hidden gun. The powerful right-to-bear-arms lobby, which supports such pistol-packing, usually contends that other workers in the plant should have been armed so they could have engaged in a shootout. Is that the kind of America you want? Even worse, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled last week that people like the Kentucky worker have a constitutional right to carry concealed pistols.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: The Rev. Mark McCalla of Huntington's Highlawn Presbyterian Church, an avid outdoorsman, was found dead in Beech Fork State Park, killed by a bullet in the head. He died not long after serving breakfast to volunteers repairing low-income homes. Two Army deserters have been charged, and police confiscated a dozen guns from a Huntington home where they had stayed.
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It's good news that Dr. Charles Vest, retired chief of one of the world's greatest science universities - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - agreed to join the Board of Governors and help restore public confidence in beleaguered West Virginia University. He lends impressive stature to WVU. It would be even better if Vest could be persuaded to become the new WVU president.
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Charleston scene: Gangly boy talking on a cell phone while riding a skateboard along Woodbridge Drive.
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Callers say they received questionnaires from Rep. Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., asking their opinions on eight top issues - but the Iraq war wasn't mentioned as a significant issue.
nnLast week, an employee at a Kentucky plastics plant quarreled with his supervisor - then got a .45-caliber pistol from his car and killed five plant employees before shooting himself. That's a constant danger in pistol-polluted America, where any warped or bitter person may carry a hidden gun. The powerful right-to-bear-arms lobby, which supports such pistol-packing, usually contends that other workers in the plant should have been armed so they could have engaged in a shootout. Is that the kind of America you want? Even worse, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled last week that people like the Kentucky worker have a constitutional right to carry concealed pistols.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: The Rev. Mark McCalla of Huntington's Highlawn Presbyterian Church, an avid outdoorsman, was found dead in Beech Fork State Park, killed by a bullet in the head. He died not long after serving breakfast to volunteers repairing low-income homes. Two Army deserters have been charged, and police confiscated a dozen guns from a Huntington home where they had stayed.
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It's good news that Dr. Charles Vest, retired chief of one of the world's greatest science universities - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - agreed to join the Board of Governors and help restore public confidence in beleaguered West Virginia University. He lends impressive stature to WVU. It would be even better if Vest could be persuaded to become the new WVU president.
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Charleston scene: Gangly boy talking on a cell phone while riding a skateboard along Woodbridge Drive.
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Callers say they received questionnaires from Rep. Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., asking their opinions on eight top issues - but the Iraq war wasn't mentioned as a significant issue.
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Puzzling statistics: A large 2008 national survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 10 percent of U.S. Jews say they actually don't believe in God - and 19 percent of American Buddhists - and even 1 percent of mainline Protestants and Catholics.
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Incredibly, textbook prices at WVU have soared as high as $200, $300 and even $400 each. In this ultramodern electronic age, why can't students get the books as digital CDs for just $1 each?
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Omega, a publication of the West Virginia Oil Marketers & Grocers Association, says the skyrocketing cost of gasoline is attributable chiefly to crude oil prices, which shot from $18 a barrel in 2001 to nearly $140 this year. When prices soar, refiners avoid purchases, producing "shortages which can cause a ripple effect throughout the entire U.S. gasoline market." It adds that West Virginia has only four terminals receiving truck and barge shipments of gasoline, while Pennsylvania has 69 ports.
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Medical researchers at the University of Miami found a way to lower childhood obesity - teach very small children and their parents about healthy eating. For six months, children aged 2 to 5 in a study group received improved menus at home and at their child-care centers. They drank water and were given fruits and vegetables as snacks. Parents attended dinners, where they learned about food labels, portion sizes and the food pyramid. After half a year, the percentage of normal-weight children in the group increased from 68 percent to 73 percent. Those at risk of being overweight dropped from 16 percent to 12 percent.
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It was appropriate that golfball-size hail landed on a Clendenin golf course.
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Ever wonder how many gun crimes are comitted by criminals that some liberal judge let out of jail? A bunch.