In 1887, Scottish history professor Alexander Tyler wrote this about the fall of the Athenian (Greek) Republic approximately 2000 years ago:

  “A Democracy is always temporary in nature; it cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

  “A Democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every Democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, which is then always followed by a dictatorship.

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Sur-prise; Sur-prise; Sur-prise!

As everyone knows, on 16 June of this year, three inmates escaped from the White County jail in Carmi, Ill. by using a pipe from within a jail shower area to break a large hole in an exterior wall of the jail building. The inmates, dressed in civilian [Read more…]

By Rich Gurka

I recently spent $101 to renew the license plates on my vehicle, in order to have the PRIVILEGE to drive that vehicle on Illinois roadway; gotta do that every year. [Read more…]

A tribute, by Rich Gurka

On New Year’s Eve, a real American was laid to rest at the White County Garden of Memories. Raymond “Doug” Moore, a lifelong Carmi resident, was 92 years old. Don’t we all pray that God gives [Read more…]

On July 17, a local news source reported the following:

 CHILD STRUCK AT INTERSECTION DURING FUNDRAISER

 On July 15 at 9:29 a.m. an 8 year old child from Norris City was struck by a vehicle while the child was standing DIRECTLY on the centerline (of the highway) with a cone on the centerline as well.

 Andrew C. Inboden of Broughton, Il. was (as reported) the driver of the 1999 Chevy truck that struck the child.

 Thank GOD, it seems that at this point the child will be OK.

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