Monthly Archives: March 2008

Dirty Politics (Issue 28)

In this election year, the rhetoric and dirty politics is in high gear. Like a ping-pong game, the accusations are slinging back and forth between the three major candidates.
 
Several years ago, there was a great Washington news correspondent named Jack Anderson who said, “I don’t cover the news. I uncover it.” I wish he was [...]

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Follow The Money (Issue 27)

“All the world is wrong but me and thee, and sometimes I have my doubts about thee.”
 
With all that’s going on in the world and this country in particular, listening to the daily news is a situation that plays up and down with our emotions like a mountain fiddle player. It’s the war, the economy, [...]

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Carnage Of Your Money (Issue 26)

The news is filled with stories about our medium of exchange, the dollar and politicians. The value of the dollar is sinking like the Titanic. Every day, the media speaks of the trillions being spent and the staggering, mounting debt of the government and American society as a whole.
 
Congress is talking about it like putting [...]

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Parent Or State Right To Raise Children? (Issue 25)

Not any place have our personal freedoms in this country ever been so under assault as in the area of raising children. This is especially prevalent in the latest news about the activist court decision in California where the court ruled parents of 166,000 students being home-schooled could face criminal charges.
 
Over 40 years ago, I personally [...]

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Reality Of Resistance (Issue 24)

Spring is nearing—things are popping out of the ground and the beautiful Bradford pear trees are in full bloom. How wonderful it is to have the four seasons of the year. I lived in South Florida for a few years and it seemed there was only one season…hot all year. I missed the fall, winter [...]

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