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It's hall of fame week in Lovell, the week we celebrate the ac-
complishments of great athletes who donned a uniform for LHS and
performed at the highest levels on the court, field, track or wrestling
mat.
I always enjoy interviewing the athletes,
most of whom are humble about their accom-
plishments and attribute much of their success
to a simple love of the game.
It's also toumament time for current lo-
cal athletes. The wrestlers have competed in
Kemmerer and now head to Casper for one
of the truly spectacular athletic events in our
state, the state wrestling toumament. It's truly
a grand event.
Rocky Mountain basketball teams are off to
Riverton this weekend, both with high hopes of David Peck
advancing to the state toumament the follow- Observations
ing weekend.
Of course, in yet another feat of incredible
scheduling, toumament officials have the Rocky Mountain and Sho-
shoni girls playing at 2:30 p.m. today at Central Wyoming College,
followed by the same two schools meeting each other in a boys
game at 4 p.m. at Riverton High School, forcing a mass exodus of
fans with a particular tie to the boys program from CWC to the other
gym at a likely critical time in the girls game. Unbelievable.
Wouldn't it have been better to move the girls game to RHS and
the 2:30 GreybulI-Kemmerer girls game to CWC? It's not like such a
move would change much. But I guess that would be too logical.
Officials don't seem to mind moving other games. On Sunday
evening, for instance, the regional tournament bracket had the
Rocky girls playing at 11 a.m and they changed that on Monday
moming after many school officials already planned their bus sched-
ules and logistics.
As for Friday night's hall of fame game in Lovell, it will be good to
see old friends Lane Brown and Mike Kidgen reunIted for the fes-
tivities. Known as the Gold Dust Twins - a name given to them by
statewide media, apparently during the 1962 state toumament in
Laramie - the Bulldog duo could light it up and were two of the finest
ballplayers in Wyoming at all levels in the early '60s.
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Letter to the Editor Democrats use the tactics of dictators
D.ear Editor, trol language, use violence in the
Thank you for the "Editor's streets, mob rule, terror, coup d'
note" for my inspiration. How etat, free social programs, free
many lives have been lost through (controlled) education of the
abortion? Where is the supportleft s viewpoint, stay in or ob-
for abortion coming from? rain political power at all costs,
The number of abortions by overturn elections, push voting
Planned Parenthood in 2017 wasfor non-citizens, support harm-
332,000 (564 million of your tax ful drugs importation and use,
dolllars at work). The number only investigate opposition, strip
the list, again showing where the
real hate is coming from.
How many lives were lost in
the USSR under Stalin? In Chi-
na under Mao? How long was
the cold war? Who was it fought
against? The Union of Soviet So-
cialist Republics. SOCIALISM! So
yes, Editor, I have come to be-
lieve my comparison to the Dem-
In fact, after Lovell nearly stopped Cheyenne Centrars 34-game since 1970 is more than 8,330,000. the rich of their wealth and give ocratic Party was indeed very
winning streak at State in '62, University of Wyoming head basketball The abortions in the U.S. to the poor, claim doom lies just appropriate.
coach Bill Strannigan was quoted as saying i%he two Lovell boys since Roe vs. Wade in 1973 is more ahead, use force and violence Let's compare the Ink and
than 61 million (numberofabor,to stop dissent, assault people Media New Deal with the Green
were the finest in the tournament. They will have Iittletrouble maNng : tionS:eom based on Guttmacher in the streets, believe changeNew Deal. How long would
any college team in the nation.' ' Institute, which was formed as a comes through violence and not Chronicle survive if it waS ir -
The other inductee Friday night will be Kristen Scheffier Brown,
who was as skilled a women's basketball player as I've ever seen
play the game. Kristen could do It all: shoot from long range, handle
the ball, drive hard to the basket, rebound, pass and play great de-
fense with her quickness and long frame.
She went on to play for the Wyoming Cowgirls and excelled at
the next level, knocking down 70 three-pointers during her fresh-
man season in 2008-09. In fact, she remains 15th in three-pointers
made in Wyoming history with 119 during a playing career that was
cut short by a back injury.
I can't find the quote now, but I recall Wyoming coach Joe
Legerski telling me that Kristen was the most skilled basketball play-
er he had coached - at least up until that time. And best of all, she's
really a great person who has always been happy to pass,along
what she had learned to younger players or to student athletes as a
coach.
Like Lane and Mike, Kristen loved basketball and was a gym rat,
spending countless hours honing her skills. She loved the game just
like other hall-of-famers, including Lane and Mike, loved basketball,
baseball, volleyball, wrestling or track and field.
In short, it's a fun week in North Big Horn County, and I'll see you
fans in Riverton and Friday night in Lovell.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Infanticide is the current
scourge in our country. It is
amazing how we can look the
other way, define it in neutral
terms or pretend it does not
exist.
King Herod the Great lived
around 2 A.D. and will forever
live in infamy. He had many chil-
dren slaughtered over the fear
that ONE being born at that time
would be called king. Herod was
so jealous of his throne that he
murdered his own family. He will
forever be remembered for the
wanton slaughter of children.
Today we have not only the
slaughter of children but the cru-
el dismemberment that is con-
sidered acceptable and is even
being funded by our tax dollars.
This is becoming lawful in sev-
eral states, the latest being New
Mexico.
In WWII, Nazi Germany, Jo-
seph Mengele, SS officer arid phy-
sician, experimented on adults
as well as children in Auschwitz.
People shuddered at something
so hideous as any civilized peo-
ple should.
How then are abortion clin-
ics to be met with anything short
of outrage? Will America be held
as accountable in history as the
Germans were, letting those
death camps exist in their time?
Bob Yorgason,
Cowley
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division of Planned Parenthood
of America).
Who have you heard calling
the right "fascists" and compar-
ing the right's opposition to the
Nazis? The radical left, MSNBC,
CNN and the Democrats. Just try
to compare fascism to the left
and what do you get?
Who uses the tactics of dic-
tators? Create an object of hate,
control the press and thus the
news, spout propaganda, con-
elections, make people afraid of
the left, intimidate and create
fear, believe they are above the
law, destroy the will to resist by
stopping freedom of speech and
believe only accusations made
about their opposition.
Of course, if you only watch
quired to deliver copies to every
address in town even to those
who do not subscribe? Free even
to those unwilling to subscribe?
See the difference between so-
cialism and capitalism/free en-
terprise? What would the edito-
rials look like then? '
The sanctity of life " "
Issue
fake news you might not be able
to think of examples of how all would be dead. A nation may
of these tactics have been used. share that fate if they abandon
I can. Now we apparently can add that belief in life.
staged fake news hate crimes to Jim Staebler
Guest column
One of the more
striking political devel-
opments of the last few
years has been the par-
tisan sorting of Amer-
ican voters. It used to
be that both the Repub-
lican and Democrat-
ic parties covered some
ideological ground.
Now, it's so habitu-
al for conservatives to
make their home in the
GOP and liberals in the
Lee
Democratic Party that party and
ideological labels stand in for one
another.
Still, you have to be care-
ful, Because when you're talking
about something as complex
as Americans' political beliefs,
there's really no such thing as
uniformity.
Sure, liberals put a lot of em-
phasis on collectively helping in-
dividuals who are in trouble, and
they tend to be more inclusive
and open to change. Conserva-
tives, as their name suggests, are
more likely to support tradition
and authority, and to support
conformity to traditional val-
Hamilton
themselves. In truth,
though, even inde-
pendents usually lean
one way or the oth-
er, sometimes quite
noticeably. They're
much more liberal
or conservative than
they think of them-
selves as being.
The divisions that
separate liberals and
conservatives are
real. On social issues,
many find themselves sharp-
ly divided: over same-sex rela-
be helpful.
But even here, the divisions
are not as sharp as they used to
be. You hear a good number "of
conservatives open to govern-
ment assistance and govern-
ment involvement in social and
economic issues. I've been sur-
prised by the number of times
I've run into conservatives who
support particular government
programs, and liberals who take
a libertarian view on some ques-
tion or another.
Over and over, I'm reminded
that learning a voter's views on a
tionships, the place of marriage given issue may tell you next to
and family in our society and, of nothing about his or her views on
course, abortion. This last may
be the most divisive issue of all.
Liberals tend to have more toler-
ance for abortion; very few con-
servatives I encounter have that
feeling, although a few do.
And they are sharply divided
over the role of government and
government intervention in the
lives of Americans on econom-
ic matters. Conservatives tend to
others, or could actually mislead
you.
It's pretty common these
days to bemoan the ideological
divisions evident in our politics,
especially when the differences
are weaponized for partisanpur-
poses. But I'd argue that far from
being debilitating, ideological di-
visions are fundamentally a sign
of the vitality of our politics. The
believe strongly that government political debate they give rise to
regulations do more harm than is a sign of the vigor of the polit-
good, and that government itself ical system.
ues. Both have strong senses of is wasteful and inefficient. The Sure, trying to deal with
right and wrong - they just de- differences are especially stark deep-seated differences is ex-
fine them differently, on health care - conservativestremely difficult for a politician.
Yet I often run into conser-
vatives who hold surprisingly lib-
eral positions on one issue or an-
other, and vice versa. So while we
tend to place both ourselves and
others within particular boxes,
their sides are porous. It's very
easy for political elites to over-
state the degree to which ideo-
abhor the mandate on purchas-
ing insurance policies; liberals
see it as a necessary step to-
ward the larger goal of expanded
coverage.
This is part of a broader divi-
sion over welfare and the degree
to which government should be
involved in programs to alleviate
logical categories actually apply : poverty or to protect working
to real people, people from the bumps, bruises,
Then, of course, there are all and hardships dealt out by the
those Americans who don't be- national economy. Conservatives
But it's also part of the attraction
and the challenge of politics. And
if you see voters as the complex
opinion-holders they really are,
common ground may not be as
impossible to find as it can seem
at first glance.
(Lee Hamilton is a Senior Ad-
visor for the Indiana University
Center on Representative Gop-
eminent; a Distinguished Scholar
of the IU Hamilton Lugar School
of Global and International Stud-
lieve they fall into either cate- tend to think those roles ought ies; and a Professor of Practice,
gory, liberal or conservative, and to be taken up by the private or IU School of Public and Environ-
who don't identify with eithernonprofit sectors and by indi-mental Affairs. He was a member
party.We tend to labelthese peo- viduals themselves. Liberals, of of the U.S. House of Representa-
pie independents - as they do,course, believe government cantires for 34 years.)
