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ROGERS, Ark. — Jesse Glen Wilkerson, Jr., known throughout his life as Glen, passed away on Sunday, May 17, at the age of 84.
A service celebrating Glen’s life will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, May 23, at Rogers First Church of the Nazarene in Rogers, Arkansas. Benton County Funeral Home of Rogers has charge of arrangements.
Glen was born on November 5, 1941, to Frances (Marshall) and Glen Wilkerson, Sr. and grew up in Sardis, Mississippi.
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What would AI models Copilot, Chat AI Plus, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude write about their datacenter hosts if asked to concoct speeches like Rep. Noel “Soggy” Sweat’s 1952 whiskey speech? Sweat’s storytelling legacy was highlighted Sunday by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
This composite came from the best two – Claude and Gemini:
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Attitudes toward taxes depend upon who imposes them and how governments use the revenue. Modern attitudes toward taxes and tax collectors have a long history shaped at least in part by the Judeo-Christian canon. The Bible’s first mention of taxes is in Genesis 41 where Joseph advises Pharoah to collect a 20 percent in-kind tax in order to lay up provisions for coming seven years of famine. The proceeds of that tax were put to good use providing benefits for all Egyptians, including Joseph’s family.
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Imagine your family spent more this year than you earned. Uncomfortable, but manageable. Now imagine your family had spent more than it earned every single year since 2001. By now you would be destitute.
That is what the federal government has been doing.
For the past 25 years — ever since Bill Clinton left the White House — Washington has spent more than it has taken in. Every single year. The national debt now stands at $39 trillion.
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Imagine your family spent more this year than you earned. Uncomfortable, but manageable. Now imagine your family had spent more than it earned every single year since 2001. By now you would be destitute.
That is what the federal government has been doing.
For the past 25 years — ever since Bill Clinton left the White House — Washington has spent more than it has taken in. Every single year. The national debt now stands at $39 trillion.
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“The biggest mistakes are mistakes of omission, not commission. It’s the things you knew enough to do — they were within your circle of competence — and you were sucking your thumb. Those are the ones that hurt.” — Warren Buffett, University of Georgia, 2001
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