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Family, teachers remember Powell boys at Washington funeral

Ryan Jenkins

Revisiting a Christmas message that we are important

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Last updated Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 11:39pm

On Christmas Eve 1968, three men had the attention of the civilized world. It is estimated that two billion people watched or listened to the events of Apollo 8, a NASA voyage to the moon. This was more than half the humans alive at the time.

Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr., and William Anders were sent to the moon to identify possible landings for future astronauts. At nearly 5 a.m. on Christmas Eve, these men entered lunar orbit. They left the earth's gravitational pull and were magnetized to the moon, 238,000 miles away.

With the earth to their back, it took their spacecraft nearly three days to reach the moon.

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Political, spiritual rebirths are not singular events

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Last updated Friday, September 3, 2010 - 2:59pm

I was a sideline observer to the "Return to Honor" rally in Washington D.C. two weekends ago. Void of cable and satellite television, I do not watch Glenn Beck in the evenings. My work schedule and other responsibilities very rarely put me in the car during his radio show.

To be quite honest I haven't even checked if Glenn is spelled with one "n" or two. I am sticking with two. Yet, during the past primary season I was accused of being a 9/12, Beck-loving nut because of my intention to vote for a new senator. The only 9/12 event I have attended was a sponsored meet the candidate night for the past senate contenders. It was held in a Presbyterian church -- which brings me to my transition and point.

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An antidote for a pompous spirit

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Last updated Friday, August 6, 2010 - 12:47pm

The enigma of state and national representatives' ethical lapses has reminded me of an experience during the Clinton impeachment hearings in the 1990's. I came home one afternoon, to the voice of my wife authoritatively telling our four-year-old daughter, "Don't let anyone tell you that (you) cannot be morally clean." Not knowing the cause of her virtuous anxiety, I ignorantly replied, "sweetheart, she is only four."

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Genuine politics

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Last updated Friday, June 25, 2010 - 12:14pm

The immediate cool down of the political primary season reminded me of Hugh Nibley's candor: "Modern men and women feel they are too busy for the rigors of serious discussion necessary for genuine politics. ... How could it be otherwise. Politics by its very nature is superficial: the practitioner can never go into depth because too many things have to be considered."

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A Statue of Responsibility

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Last updated Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 10:29pm

Dr. Victor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning" and Holocaust survivor conveyed, "Freedom threatens to degenerate into mere arbitrariness [oppression], unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I have been teaching my American audiences that they should see to it that The Statue of Liberty on the Atlantic Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the Pacific Coast.

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America needs a wake-up call

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Last updated Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 10:48pm

As a Middle East news correspondent in 1973, Peter Jennings was covering the war between Israel and Syria. One day an Israeli pilot was shot down and rushed to a Syrian hospital. Peter Jennings and his camera man boldly entered the hospital and without any resistance walked right into a room where a Syrian surgeon was operating on this Israeli pilot.

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