Stories from Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Woman's Citizenship Club held its May 1 meeting at 11:30 a.m. in the Westwood Hills Country Club hosted by Rita McVey. There were 16 members and guest speaker, Gaeller Freer, a teacher at the Poplar Bluff Graduation Center, present. President McVey called the meeting to order. Gladys Hill led the prayer...

The Butler County Genealogy Society met Thursday, April 25, at the Twin Towers. Attending were 25 members and guests. The guest speaker, Marcia Morse, was introduced by Vice President Paula Allen. She spoke about tombstone cleaning, explaining the four most popular stones used for this purpose were: limestone, which breaks easily; marble, which was used mostly for military stones of the 19th Century; Sandstone, which should never be cleaned; and granite, the most durable and the stone mostly used today. ...

By CLIFFORD MAY "Humans are great at self-delusion," the polymath philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I'm confident he'd agree that the humans who populate the foreign policy community are no exception. Two years ago this month, Osama bin Laden was killed on President Barack Obama's orders -- a very good thing. Before long, however, sophisticated analysts were declaring that this was not just a battle won -- it was a war ended...

By GEORGE WILL WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most. Now, notice the scant attention being given to an assault on civil liberties by the misconceived Education Department's misnamed Office for Civil Rights...

Members of the Sacred Heart eighth grade graduating class are announced with their honors. Justin Capps: Junior Beta, Student Council, B honor roll fourth quarter and second semester, athletic award, server award and perfect attendance all year. Christopher Deken: Junior Beta, Student Council, B honor roll fourth quarter and second semester, English award, server award, church lector award for contributions to school liturgy and prayers...