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Sarason D. Liebler lives in Liberty.
Additional Column Posts (1 - 17 of 17)
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Square Peg & Round Hole
By Sarason D. Liebler - Aug 29A metaphor is a pithy short phrase that allows one to quickly categorize a subject without providing a detailed framework of background information...
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Horror
By Sarason D. Liebler - Aug 03Two weeks ago Aurora, Colo., was the latest scene of societal horror. The mass shooting at the premier of the latest Batman movie took more than a ...
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Surprise — it’s a tax
By Sarason D. Liebler - Jul 03I usually start framing my columns for the following week at least 10 days before they are due for submission. The problem with that is evident, ...
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Austerity or Anger
By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 22On Tuesday, June 5, 2012, voters in Wisconsin, San Jose and San Diego upset the status quo. In Wisconsin voters voted strongly to block the recall ...
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Only Troubling
By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 05On Friday May 25, Jack Hayes, director of the National Weather Service, resigned after an audit of his fiefdom showed that the service had shifted ...
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X + Y = Z
By Sarason D. Liebler - May 21Early on in grade school, we started with basic arithmetic. In my day we moved more slowly than they do today. Algebra was not taught until 7th or ...
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The Vietnam Project – Color me Orange
By Sarason D. Liebler - May 12A couple of weeks ago Ashton Reynolds, a 15-year-old friend, grounds keeper, hunting rights manager and “jack of all trades” and I were chatting ...
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Corrosive labels
By Sarason D. Liebler - Apr 27Are you a liberal or a conservative? Most people when asked such a question reflexively fire back an answer. Despite the fervent and rapid ...
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As I was saying
By Sarason D. Liebler - Apr 13I commenced writing columns for the Republican Journal in 1998, shortly after the memorable ice storm. In due course, and until 2008, I wrote ...
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Missy Franklin
By Sarason D. Liebler - Aug 14Missy Franklin is a 17-year-old American swimming sensation who holds various world and Olympic medals and records, and from all accounts is a ...
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Picking a winner?
By Sarason D. Liebler - Jul 15The consensus of pundits is that it will be today’s undecided voters who pick the president in this fall's presidential election. They reason that ...
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Out of Step?
By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 29June 18 was my 76th birthday. I graduated from high school in 1953. I graduated from college in 1961. I have been married to the same woman ...
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A sum up
By Sarason D. Liebler - Jun 13In a column like this one, the writer has to limit the scope of the chosen topic severely. Unless the topic is narrow the column becomes a ...
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Get rich quick
By Sarason D. Liebler - May 31I was 29 and a Lieutenant when I resigned my commission from the U. S. Navy in 1965, not because I disliked the navy and not because I had remorse ...
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Voting for economic suicide
By Sarason D. Liebler - May 17The French and the Greeks have spoken. They have voted for economic suicide and they will not be denied. Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Holland, Italy ...
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It is again time for a Public Works Administration
By Sarason D. Liebler - May 03In the Great Depression of the 1930's, then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried a number of programs, using federal money, to get the nation ...
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Stepping on liberty in Liberty
By Sarason D. Liebler - Apr 20At the Liberty town meeting on March 31 certain citizens of Liberty stepped on the liberties of other citizens of Liberty, under the guise of ...