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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST -- Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes?  It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . . more
April 27, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --   Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barak Obama's pastor appeared on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS last week.   I watched the full hour and found Rev. Wright, a former US Marine who cared for . . . more
THE MECHANISMS OF ADDICTION
by Duane B.
views: 58 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 18
July 09, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --   The most current statistics indicate that thirty percent of the American adult population have been alcoholics, been dependent on alcohol or abused alcohol in their lifetime.  An estimated . . . more
July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --   Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . . more
August 31, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --    The official report on the Virginia Tech shootings has been published and it contains details of Cho’s mental health history and treatment details.  I am a retired therapist that . . . more
IS THERE A REAL MORTAGE CRISIS?
by Duane B.
views: 325 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 36
March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --  We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . . more
THE ISSUE OF VACCINATIONS
by Duane B.
views: 346 | rating: 9.2 | comments: 42
May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --     I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII.   I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . . more
July 01, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --   The chief prosecutor of St Louis is preparing to release a report that took two years to develop that may show that convicted murderer Larry Griffin, executed in 1995, was innocent of the crime. . . . more
March 13, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --     Are the Democratic candidates going to immolate themselves, and the party, in their desire of being numero uno or will they curb their enthusiasm for the top slot on the November . . . more
October 17, 2006 08:32 PM EDT -- Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation that would require all girls entering sixth grade next year to be vaccinated with against HPV.  Michigan has exemptions from the vaccination laws for . . . more
February 06, 2007 10:29 PM EST -- The Tax Foundation, a Washington D.C. nonpartisan tax research organization, is concerned that we have a growing number of lower incomes individuals and families in our nation that are not paying any, . . . more
BOY DIES FROM TOOTHACHE
by Duane B.
views: 186 | rating: 10 | comments: 15
February 28, 2007 12:24 PM EST --   A twelve-year-old Maryland boy died from complications of an abscessed tooth when the bacteria from the tooth spread to his brain.  The boy was hospitalized due to the brain infection and . . . more
August 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --   Sometimes just reading the individual captions of articles and columns in my local newspaper can be either informative or raise troubling questions.  Today’s Sunday edition of my . . . more
OBAMA ON SOCIAL SECURITY
by Duane B.
views: 23 | rating: 10 | comments: 7
November 12, 2007 09:58 AM EST --   Democratic candidate Barack Obama appeared on Meet the Press with Tim Russert yesterday and made some comments on Social Security that are being widely reported in the print and . . . more
November 26, 2007 09:39 AM EST --     Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has send a 42 item questionnaire to six leading televangelists inquiring into how their ministries spend the multi-millions of dollars that . . . more
October 30, 2006 01:59 PM EST --     I have posted below a link to a Newsweek article dealing with the new efforts of cities to deal with the homeless/panhandling problems by forbidding churches and other non-profits from . . . more
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RATES FALL
by Duane B.
views: 16 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
December 29, 2006 09:27 AM EST -- The US Department of Justice has issued a report that indicates that domestic violence rates have fallen by more than fifty percent from 1993 to 2004. The sharp decline is attributed to a number of factors . . . more
SEXUAL HYSTERIA STRIKES AGAIN
by Duane B.
views: 26 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
January 28, 2007 11:22 AM EST --     I can at least understand the context and culture when sexual hysteria rears its ugly head in some part of out country that has established a history of opposing any type of sexual education. . . . more
March 06, 2007 08:49 AM EST -- The latest example of Washington’s smoke and mirrors on attempting to find a solution to our healthcare crisis is a proposal of SC Senator Jim DeMint to let individuals and families to establish . . . more
December 08, 2007 01:12 PM EST --       William Saletan, writing in Slate, criticizes a study that appeared in Nature Neuroscience that concludes that “conservatives” are less intelligent, . . . more
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