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Will Rogers died on August 15, 1935, in a light plane crash in Point Barrow, Alaska. He was he friend of all Presidents from Roosevelt Senior to Roosevelt Junior. In 1926, English biographer John Carter wrote in the New York Times,: “Perhaps Will Rogers has done more to educate the American public in world affairs than all the professors who have been elucidating the continental chaos since the Treaty of Versailles.” FDR said about those views: “Will Rogers’ analysis of affairs abroad was not only more interesting but proved to be more accurate than any other I had heard.” Damon...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Will Rogers. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Will Rogers was an American film icon who personified the optimistic, patriotic man and woman. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid) belowEach letter...

I see that it’s Will Roger’s birthday today. He would have been 140. His timeless quotes are a tribute to the constancy of human nature. Of course if he were alive today they’d be Tweeted or Instagrammed and likely lost to posterity, buried under the morass of crap floating around out there. Here is my curated list of some his best: Always drink upstream from the herd. Which is timeless advice. Then there’s this, which at one time might have been a good thing… Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles. but as you...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Will Rogers. Click image for full size rendition, then use your brower's print command to print puzzle.All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half of the puzzle into the white squares on the grid pattern belowEach letter must stay in its own columnEach letter may be used exactly onceBlack squares represent spaces and do not get lettersGray squares represent punctuation marks or numbers and do not get lettersSome words will continue from one row to another For...

Judge Priest (Will Rogers), a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.Judge Priest (1934) on IMDb

This guy got some serious communication chops and deserves to start showing up on FOX as a homespun down home back porch rocking chair lariat twirling American oracle.

In one of those "it's gotten so bad that…" stories, McClatchy's James Rosen reported today that Congress is so rife with partisan warfare that they can no longer even agree to sign onto each other's harmless resolutions that celebrate sports teams for one success or another. "The once-routine resolutions honoring hometown squads or stars sailed through Congress for years with nary a discordant note or vote -- but no more," Rosen gravely wrote. Rosen went on to reveal that our elected officials are finding resistance to their once easily passed resolutions meant to honor local, hometown sports teams in both...

Some Will Rogers quotes seem appropriate about now: "Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off." It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. (Think about that one.) Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. "If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to...

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A recent road trip convinced this traveler that the radio airwaves are saturated these days with self-proclaimed experts who are espousing more solutions to our economic woes than there are problems. A recent visit to the Will Rogers Center in Claremore, Okla., convinced this observer that what this country needs is not another talk show host, but instead, someone with the character, integrity and sense of humor of Rogers. Some say that Rogers invented talk radio and at the peak of his career could lay claim to several million daily listeners. His commentaries were never cruel and were based on...

The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash with Wylie Post in 1935, was probably the greatest political sage this country has ever known. Enjoy the following quotes---- --------------------------------------------- 1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman...neither works. 4. Never miss a good chance to shut up. 5. Always drink upstream from the herd. 6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. 7. The quickest way to double your money is...

The subjects this week concern the War in Iraq, saving Social Security, and the death of Terri Schiavo. To examine the logic of all three, we begin with poker. For about four decades I’ve played low-stakes poker. I understand the game well, but at best just break even. Why? Casual poker players are doomed by the fatal attraction of the inside straight. Two cards can win when you draw to an outside straight, one chance in six. But drawing to an inside straight, where only one card can complete it, has one in twelve odds. The first is a good...

Where's Will Rogers when we need him? And we do need him today! The wit and wisdom, the empathy and understanding he brought to the social and political issues of his day don't seem to exist anywhere now. Art Buchwald came close, and Garrison Keiller evoked old Will from time to time but the shaggy-haired Cherokee American philosopher from the Oklahoma Territory is still in a class by himself. There was only one. I had the honor and intense pleasure of portraying Will in "The Will Rogers Follies" in Branson, Missouri, for almost the whole year of 1994. The show...

1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ............Mark Twain 2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ........Winston Churchill 3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. .............George Bernard Shaw 4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ............G. Gordon Liddy...

Former governor to be honored as Great Westerner By The Associated Press Former Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe Jr., who presided during the state's oil and gas boom years and left office after a stunning primary defeat, will be inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City next month. Briscoe, governor from 1973 to 1979, will be honored at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City on April 17. Others being inducted are Wina Rae Calhoon, a pioneer teacher and minister, and Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, a mountain man, guide and fur trader. Briscoe was elected...