Opinion & Editorial

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The Hartwell Sun

Biden did the right thing

President Biden made a decision that was not for Joe Biden; it was for our country. He had the wisdom and dignity to know when it was time to step aside as candidate for President and concentrate his energy on serving out his term effectively.
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The Hartwell Sun

Vote for those upholding God’s principles

This nation of ours has strayed far from what our founding fathers envisioned and began 248 years ago. Ours was to be a limited representative government, a republic, not a democracy as people love to call it today.
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The Hartwell Sun

Let Games of the XXXIII Olympiad begin

The closest that I’ve ever been to Paris is 4,364 miles. That was squirming in Mrs. Lois Collins’ eighth-grade French class. Correction. On a Delta flight in 1999 to begin a three-week Middle East Travel Seminar (METS), our plane touched down in Berlin.
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The Hartwell Sun

Lesson in human decency can be learned in grammar school

When I was in elementary school—it was either the sixth or seventh grade—my classmates elected me to fight a boy named Johnny because he supposedly was picking on smaller kids. It was almost an honor. The fight took place down at the railroad tracks near the school.
My first time playing EA Sports: College Football 25. I took out  my immense frustration against Benjamin London’s favorite team.

My first time playing EA Sports: College Football 25. I took out my immense frustration against Benjamin London’s favorite team.

A very trying week

The last eight months, I patiently waited for the week of July 15 to arrive. While I’ve never been a big video game guy, there was always one game that used to keep me glued to the TV screen like an adolescent: NCAA College Football.
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The Hartwell Sun

It Starts in the Mind

I heard about a physician who said, “Many of my patients have nothing wrong with them except their thoughts. So I have a favorite prescription I write for some. But it is not a prescription that you can fill at a drugstore.
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The Hartwell Sun

Insect Gall on Pecan Trees

You may have noticed that the leaves or stems on your pecan trees are covered with wart-like galls on the leaves. This gall is actually the result of tiny aphid-like insects, properly known as phylloxerans, feeding on the leaf and stem tissue.
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The Hartwell Sun

The driving force

Jill Biden is really the driving force behind Biden to say in the race. The fear over the ‘brand’ name that is stamped on tthe Biden name over the Hunter/Joe Biden case. Is Jill Biden really worried that she is also involved in the ‘brand’ name?
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The Hartwell Sun

Take a look at Project 2025

Thursday night at the White House, while President Joe Biden was demonstrating his command of the complexities and nuances of international politics, former President Donald Trump was entertaining Hungarian strong man and Prime Minister, Victor Orban, at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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The Hartwell Sun

Enough is enough

After the near assassination of a presidential candidate, and the harming of three innocent bystanders by a disturbed person armed with an assault rifle, when are we going to say Enough!?