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Wednesday, September 3,2008

Does Eskimo vote hold key to 2008 election?

By Ogi Overman
I may not have been a mile high after watching Sen. Barack Obama’s extraordinary speech last Thursday, but I swear there was a moment in there when I felt I was getting ready to levitate. I was among the hysterically happy throng at the former Mile High Stadium, if only vicariously.
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Wednesday, August 27,2008

Grand Prix: Grand vision or visions of grandeur?

By Ogi Overman
Anybody who’s lived in the Triad more than a couple of days knows that High Point has an inferiority complex.
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Wednesday, August 20,2008

Golfing gods smile on Greensboro: Will PGA?

By Ogi Overman
Carl Pettersson wasn’t the only winner at last week’s Wyndham Championship, only the most obvious. While the strapping Swede who was a Whirlie for two years and a Wolfpacker for four took home the big bucks and the Sam Snead Cup, there is a long list of winners who may rightly bask in his reflected glory.
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Wednesday, August 13,2008

War crimes tribunal last best hope for justice

By Ogi Overman
When the news broke last Tuesday that Ron Suskind’s new book, The Way of the World, offered the most conclusive proof yet that Bush and Cheney had committed crimes that were clearly impeachable, my first thought was, “This it it. This is the bombshell that even a gutless Congress, compliant media and apathetic electorate cannot possibly ignore. Even with less than three months before the election, the House Judiciary Committee will have no choice now but to draw up the Articles of Impeachment against them.
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Wednesday, August 6,2008

Not meeting the press today, thank you

By Ogi Overman
Sometimes you’ve just got to save yourself. Today, Sunday, I did just that. It’s something I almost never do, but it came down to a matter of self-preservation, so I did it. I trashed a column. Got about 200 words into it and dumped that sucker in the slush file.
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Wednesday, July 30,2008

McCain ‘Ich bin ein güberhead’ tour continues

By Ogi Overman
There is something very peculiar leftward, that the pendulum is swinging toward change and about this presidential he represents the status quo, that the stars campaign. I’m not are aligned against him, so this is his tactic talking about the of last resort.
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Wednesday, July 23,2008

Bush stays the course — right off a cliff

By Ogi Overman
The Big “O” 2000, here’s the short version: “President” George W. Bush. Or the shorter version: the Duh.
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Tuesday, July 15,2008

Obama must realize that we can handle the truth

By Ogi Overman
You hear it every four years without For the truth is that there are no fail. In fact, I'm quick fixes. The problems may not be not sure you can insurmountable, but we're looking have a presidential at planting seeds that may not bear election without both fruit for a couple of generations.
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Wednesday, July 9,2008

Supreme Court: 'Happiness is a warm gun'

By Ogi Overman
Looks like Charlton Hestonro;s cold, dead finger wonro;t have to be pried from around the trigger of his gun after all. The US Supreme Court saw to that in its landmark June 26 decision.
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Friday, June 27,2008

With a little help from my friends

By Ogi Overman
Last Tuesday's coverage of the merciful end of the interminable primary season - and the three candidates' speeches - had the vicarious feel of being at a rock concert. McCain was the local act trying to break into the big time
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