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Dancing with old poverty and the new poor — still

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jul. 5

Trump out of NUFA for good

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jun. 21

Fool’s parade and a name change

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jun. 14

Poor thinking tough nut to crack in climate change debate

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday Jun. 6

Stay away you illegal immigrants, we’re a Christian nation here

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday May. 10

The Blab-o-sphere and the First Amendment

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday May. 3

Don’t let the kids of the world fall into the hands of the superstitious

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 26

Rumpt supporters, can you think outside the slogan?

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 19

NUFA Moron Alert issued for Southern Military Zone

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 5

Artificial intelligence and the stirrings of a venture capitalist

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 22

Shack marching band members emerging from winter dens

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 8

Held hostage by terrorists and the gun lobby

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 1

All we can do is try to be nice to each other

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 22

We so smart we kill our world and don’t even know it—Part Forever

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 15

It doesn’t hurt to learn a little more — Part Three

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 8

Getting fear out of the hearts of the working class

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 1

Snooty snowmobile and time machines

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jan. 25

Poor thinking a tough nut to crack

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jan. 18

Putting other matters aside for the Genius among us

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jan. 11

NUFA just trying to be friendly and helpful

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jan. 4

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