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OPINION | WE SAY

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. Hebrews 4:12. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publish-ing House, St. Louis

F RO M T H E B I B L E

By The Associated PressToday is Friday, June 28, the 179th

day of 2013. There are 186 days left inthe year.

Today’s Highlights in History: OnJune 28, 1863, during the Civil War,President Abraham Lincoln appointedMaj. Gen. George G. Meade the newcommander of the Army of the Potomac,following the resignation of Maj. Gen.Joseph Hooker.

On this date: In 1778, the Revolu-tionary War Battle of Monmouth tookplace in New Jersey; it was from this bat-tle that the legend of “Molly Pitcher”arose.

In 1836, the fourth president of theUnited States, James Madison, died inMontpelier, Va.

In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria wascrowned in Westminster Abbey.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinandof Austria and his wife, Sophie, were as-sassinated in Sarajevo by Serb national-ist Gavrilo Princip — the event whichsparked World War I.

In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles wassigned in France, ending the First WorldWar. In Independence, Mo., future presi-dent Harry S. Truman married ElizabethVirginia Wallace.

In 1922, the Irish Civil War began be-tween rival nationalists over the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish FreeState. (The conflict lasted nearly a year,resulting in defeat for anti-treaty forces.)

In 1939, Pan American Airwaysbegan regular trans-Atlantic air servicewith a flight that departed New York forMarseilles, France.

In 1944, the Republican nationalconvention in Chicago nominated NewYork Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for presi-dent and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker forvice president.

In 1950, North Korean forces cap-tured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

In 1962, a jury in New York awarded$3.5 million to former radio-TV personal-ity John Henry Faulk in his libel suitagainst the group AWARE Inc. and twoindividuals who’d accused him of Com-munist sympathies and gotten him black-listed. (The judgment was reduced to$550,000 by an appeals court.)

In 1978, the Supreme Court orderedthe University of California-Davis MedicalSchool to admit Allan Bakke, a whiteman who argued he’d been a victim ofreverse racial discrimination.

In 2000, seven months after he wascast adrift in the Florida Straits, ElianGonzalez was returned to his nativeCuba.

Ten years ago: After days of intensesearching by ground and air, U.S. forcesfound the bodies of two soldiers missing

north of Baghdad, as the toll of Americandead since the start of war topped thegrim milestone of 200.

Five years ago: Presidential rivalsJohn McCain and Barack Obama viedfor the support of Hispanics in separateappearances before the National Asso-ciation of Latino Elected and AppointedOfficials conference in Washington, witheach vowing to remake immigration pol-icy. Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo ofthe Angels combined to keep the Los An-geles Dodgers hitless, but the Dodgerswon 1-0. (The Dodgers became the fifthteam in modern major league history towin without getting a hit, but since theydidn’t have to bat in the ninth, the gamedid not qualify as a no-hitter.)

One year ago: America’s historichealth care overhaul narrowly survived,5-4, an election-year battle at the U.S.Supreme Court with the improbable helpof conservative Chief Justice JohnRoberts. Attorney General Eric Holderbecame the first sitting Cabinet memberheld in contempt of Congress, a rebukepushed by Republicans seeking to un-earth the facts behind a bungled gun-tracking operation known as Fast andFurious. (The vote was 255-67, withmore than 100 Democrats boycotting.) AtWimbledon, 2-time champion RafaelNadal was overpowered in the secondround by Lukas Rosol, a Czech rankedNo. 100, 6-7 (9), 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. KatieHolmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruiseafter 5 years of marriage.

Today’s Birthdays: Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks is 87. SenateArmed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., is 79. Comedian-impressionistJohn Byner is 76. Former Defense Sec-retary Leon Panetta is 75. Rock musicianDave Knights (Procul Harum) is 68. ActorBruce Davison is 67. Actress KathyBates is 65. Actress Alice Krige is 59.College and Pro Football Hall of FamerJohn Elway is 53. Record company chiefexecutive Tony Mercedes is 51. ActressJessica Hecht is 48. Rock musician SaulDavies (James) is 48. Actress Mary Stu-art Masterson is 47. Actor John Cusackis 47. Actor Gil Bellows is 46. Actress-singer Danielle Brisebois is 44. Jazz mu-sician Jimmy Sommers is 44. ActressTichina Arnold is 44. Actor AlessandroNivola is 41. Actress Camille Guaty is 37.Rock musician Tim Nordwind (OK Go) is37. Rock musician Mark Stoermer (TheKillers) is 36. Country singer Big VinnyHickerson (Trailer Choir) is 30. Countrysinger Kellie Pickler is 27.

Thought for Today: “I am the inferiorof any man whose rights I trample underfoot.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, Americanlawyer and statesman (1833-1899).

O N T H I S DAT E

BY KELLY HERTZkelly.hertz@yankton.net

This was a week of big change at the Press &Dakotan. We shifted our printing operations onMonday, resulting in a narrower, easier-to-handlenewspaper and a greatly expanded abil-ity to publish color photos and adver-tisements. This was no minor switch —take it from someone who vividly remem-bers the days when printing just onecolor photo on one page required twoweeks of planning.

The newspaper business is alwayschanging, which is ironic for reasons I’llexplain in a moment. Some changes arebigger than others, and this week’s shiftwas a major one.

But it wasn’t the biggest. Not evenclose.

Of all the changes I’ve experienced inmy years here, the biggest occurred 20years ago this coming Monday. That’sthe day we shifted from an afternoon newspaper —which we had been since the 19th century — to amorning publication.

Change is a fact of life, but it’s never easy in thisbusiness. We put out a paper here six days a week,which means we literally reinvent our productevery day. It would be chaos if we didn’t have setprocedures to perform the hundreds of little thingswe must do for each edition. That requires rou-tines, patterns and discipline. It also requires deal-ing with the unexpected within the parameters ofthose routines. But when you do it long enough,the operations become rote and function well.

Within this meticulous blueprint of routine,change would seem to be a sworn enemy.

When change does happen — it always does, asI’ve noted above — the routines must be altered,the patterns have to be adjusted or recalculated,but the discipline must remain the same.

So, the new-look newspaper that debuted Mon-day took a long time to plan. The process still isn’tquite done.

Now, let’s go back to 1993 when this newspaperswitched to a morning publication.

Actually, to understand it, you really have to goback to late 1991 when (as I recall) I first heard seri-ous talk about the logic and inevitability of a switchthat had been rumored for years. The idea slowlytook shape until, in early 1993, we committed tothe change. Our D-Day was July 1.

I was sports editor then, and my job consistedof fairly fixed rituals. I woke up each day at about5:30 a.m., got to work around 6:15 a.m. and siftedthrough press releases, bowling scores and what-ever else was on my desk or in the drop box. I thenbegan mapping out a page design while waiting forthe photographer to emerge from the darkroom

with contact sheets of the photos to be used thatday. I put the sports pages together — my deadlinewas 10:45 a.m. — then I mapped out the rest of myday and/or night. Sometimes I faced a hectic sched-ule, but sometimes not, which allowed me to doother things beyond the scope of work, like have a

life.But that changed 20 years ago this

Monday. As I recollect, I had a substitute put

together the June 30 afternoon edition,so I was able to wander into work atabout 2 p.m., which was an odd and ex-hilarating feeling. Hours later, I wasstruck by how strange it was to be in theoffice at night with so many other peoplebuzzing around; previously, it was usu-ally just the sports staff, or there was noone at all. Lights were on everywhere.And there was a unique pressure to fin-ish off the newspaper even while, say,baseball games were still going on. I hadto cut it off somewhere.

The next day, I slept in — and I remember think-ing that I could get used to this.

This change was quite momentous for us onmany levels. The switch instantly taxed our man-power: For instance, it used to be that I couldcover a game at night, then come in the next morn-ing and write the story before doing the pages.Now, I couldn’t do both at once. Night work be-came more pressurized because of the new dead-lines; some nights, all this was bedlam.Photography (remember, this was still the film era)was also on a crunch. And I think we had almostcomplete turnover in our newspaper carriers bywinter.

Aside from that, this change transformed me. Iwent from being a morning person to a night owl: Iused to go to bed at about 11 p.m. every night, butin these last 20 years, I bet I haven’t been to bedbefore midnight more than a dozen times total. Imiss a lot of television references thrown out inconversations because I miss a lot of televisionnow. I used to see a lot of sunrises; now they arevampirically foreign to me. And at 5 p.m., when thework day ends for many people, mine is just crank-ing up.

There are changes, you see, and there arechanges.

So, the transformation that took place thisweek, while demanding a lot of preparation andgiving us great new capabilities, really was a minorshift in the scheme of things. It’s something newthat required adjustments, and we’re adjusting. Butit wasn’t like a night-and-day change. Believe me, Iknow what that looks like.

You can follow Kelly Hertz on Twitter at twit-ter.com/kelly_hertz

Like Night And Day

O N L I N E O P I N I O NThe results of the most recent Internet poll on the Press & Dakotanʼs Web

site are as follows:

LATEST RESULTS: Do you believe that recent extreme weather events are attributable to

climate change?No . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56%Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44%TOTAL VOTES CAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287

The Press & Dakotan Internet poll is not a scientific survey and reflects theopinions only of those who choose to participate. The results should not be con-strued as an accurate representation or scientific measurement of public opinion.

———CURRENT QUESTION:

Do you agree with the Supreme Courtʼs decision that does away withthe Defense of Marriage Act?

To vote in the Press & Dakotanʼs Internet poll, log on to our website at www.yank-ton.net.

Kelly

HERTZ

BY MICHAEL REAGANCagleCartoons.com

Will the left ever stop playing the race card?Not in my lifetime, it won’t. The Obama left in this country acts like we’re

still living in 1960, when racism waslegally, socially and morally sanctionedacross the South and elsewhere.

Here’s a newsflash, folks. It’s 2013. Racism is not extinct and never will

be as long as human beings walk theEarth.

But despite President Obama’s con-stant efforts to persuade his low-infor-mation constituencies otherwise,examples of overt or institutionalizedracism are harder to find in Americatoday than a rotary pay phone or aStudebaker.

Of course this reality doesn’t mat-ter a bit to the Obama left. It still seesracism everywhere it looks — and itlooks for it everywhere.

Why? Because the left knows playing the racecard is guaranteed to get them votes, and satura-tion coverage from the friendly liberal media.

Sadly, dealing the race card works. It doesn’tmatter if the issue involves racist words utteredyears ago by Food Network star Paula Deen orthe latest U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Deen is the latest celebrity who’s beenslapped with the race card.

The 66-year-old product of the Jim CrowSouth, whose food and restaurant empire report-edly made her $17 million in 2012, is taking a se-rious financial hit not for something racist sheblurted on her TV show, and not for anything shehad been secretly recorded saying in private.

Deen’s been sacked by the Food Network anddumped by one of her biggest sponsors simplybecause she was honest and admitted in a depo-sition in a discrimination suit that she had usedthe N-word privately in her past.

The N-word was once heard in every corner ofwhite America. We’re a better country becauseit’s so rarely heard today — unless you listen torap or watch bad Quentin Tarantino movies.

If merely ever speaking the N-word in yourlifetime is cause for losing your job today, thenkiss half of Congress and the news media good-bye.

Crying racism works. President Obamaknows this political truth like he knows the back

nine at Andrews Air Force Base. He immediately slapped the race

card down on the table Tuesday whenhe heard about the U.S. SupremeCourt’s decision to gut a key part of the1965 Voting Rights Act.

The act was needed 48 years ago.That’s when racist Democrats in South-ern states were using dirty tactics todeny black citizens the vote and Con-gress decided the best way to preventit was to make states get federal ap-proval to change their voting laws.

But now the voting rights law is ob-solete. Black voters are not being de-nied the vote because of their race, butthat reality didn’t enter into the presi-

dent’s cynical political calculus. Before MSNBC’s Obama echo chamber could

decry the high court’s 5-4 decision, he pro-nounced he was “deeply disappointed” andcalled on Congress to pass a new law to fix aproblem that he knows no longer exists.

Please, BO, spare us the BS.You were “deeply disappointed”? No you

weren’t. You were playing your racial card game.I challenge you to show us one instance in

one state where the federal voting rights law isstill needed in the U.S.

You can’t, Mr. President. So put your racecard away. Put it back where it belongs — at thebottom of your deck.

Michael Reagan is the son of PresidentRonald Reagan, a political consultant, and the au-thor of “The New Reagan Revolution” (St. Mar-tin’s Press). He is the founder of the emailservice reagan.com and president of The ReaganLegacy Foundation. Visit his websites atwww.reagan.com and www.michaelereagan.com.Send comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com.Follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Claim FlaggedFernande Colette Bitsos

In regards to William J. Collen’s letter(“Under Distress,” Press & Dakotan, June 20):

There was never a mention of Gen. McAuli-ffe planting the American flag upside down atthe Battle of the Bulge. I also gave a friendabout my age who lived in Bastogne in World

War II, speaks five languages and remembersexactly what went on (such as freezingweather and bombing). She said no U.S. flagwas stuck in the ground upside down.

If a Nazi flag was handy, that I would be-lieve, because that is what I believe the U.S.general would have done to it — but not ourflag!

YO U R L E T T E R S

The Left And The Race Card

Michael

REAGAN

ScholarlyTHUMBS UP to Yankton native and University ofSouth Dakota student Emily Niebrugge, who thisweek was announced as the first recipient of theDavid Kranz/Argus Leader Media Journalism Scholar-ship. The $1,200 scholarship is named in honor ofKranz, a longtime Argus Leader journalist whose ca-reer covered more than 40 years before his retire-

ment in 2010. Emily is also a Neuharth Scholar at USD, plus she internsand works as a news reporter and sportswriter here at the Press &Dakotan. Congratulations to Emily for receiving this splendid honor!

Family HonorsTHUMBS UP to Heine Farm and Feedyard, Ron andSteve Heine and family, who were introduced as the2013 Farm Family of the Year during the annual Yank-ton Area Chamber of Commerce Ag Gala. The fam-ily’s patriarch, Gerhardt Heine, died in 1969 at age59, leaving behind his wife, Florence, and eight chil-dren between the ages of 8-21. Florence and the old-

est son, Gary, kept the farm going until all five sons were adults. Steveand his family continues to live on the Fordyce, Neb., homestead thathas been in the family since 1905. Congratulations to the entire Heinefamily, including Florence, still going strong at age 93.

Moving OnTHUMBS UP to news that the area has, for the mostpart, moved out of drought. That doesn’t mean therearen’t dry conditions, and there are still concernsabout subsoil moisture. In addition, the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers has maintained the MissouriRiver reservoirs to reflect drought conditions as wellas flood control. However, the recent rains have farsurpassed the total for most of 2012. In addition,

South Dakota state meteorologist Dennis Todey has said he doesn’t ex-pect a repeat of last year, when precipitation suddenly stopped in Julyand the region remained dormant. Both southeast South Dakota andnortheast Nebraska have moved out of exceptional drought, the worstcategory, and we hope the progress continues in the weeks ahead.

FarewellTHUMBS DOWN to the passing of Yankton CountyObserver columnist Wayne Pibal Jr. We enjoyedreading Pibal’s take on local and state politics in his“Nobody Asked Me ...” column during the pastdecade and will miss his unique take on the place weknow he loved: Yankton County. Pibal was the kindof gentleman you would want as a columnist: He was

someone with whom you could disagree but with whom things neverbecame disagreeable. Sure, Pibal ruffled some feathers with his writ-ing — and we were at meetings with him on a couple occasions to seethose feathers fly — but that was part of the reason we enjoyed hiscolumns. Our condolences go out to the Yankton County Observer, aswell as Pibal’s friends and family, during this time of saying farewell.