Moral suasion is a term I learned while studying economics but I think it equally applies in this case. It seems that a young woman has come into the possession of a T-Mobile Sidekick II (cellphone) and the owner of the phone wants it returned. (I found the link at Gizmodo.) Unfortunately for the...
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A Dose of Common Sense: Congress is poised to rescue California from food-regulation hell It has been said that California is a decade ahead of the rest of the country in adopting new ideas. That may have been true for some icons of American culture such as skinny half-caf lattes, cut-off jeans, and spandex,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Before the June 6 election day in San Diego match up between Democrat Francine Busby and Republican Brian Bilbray — who were running to fill the vacated congressional seat of disgraced Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham — the Democrat Party mouthpieces and their comrades in the news media pushed the idea...
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Okay, so the alternate title to this could have been “Cruise-ing to Victory”, but that’s neither here nor there… Not long ago, Viagra became the sponsor of Roush Racing’s #6 Ford (seems like you’d want the car number to be at least “8 1/2″, but whatever), and the jokes were flying. Now, Scientology is...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If only such a cliche’ were not true with regard to President George W. Bush. If he believes caving in to Iranian extortion is the way to better his poll numbers, he may be right. But what...
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With all the Conservative anger directed toward Liberal Republicans these days over immigration and overspending (among other things), it’s only natural that talk turns to third party politics as the midterm elections approach. Even such a Republican stalwart as Peggy Noonan, special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and chief speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush,...
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Spoiler alert I got interested in the story of the Bell witch a few years ago when i saw a documentary about this haunting. There is a lot about this but it comes down to a witch that terrorized a family in 1820 Tennesee. The father in the family, John Bell, died. When I...
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It’s no secret that we’re living in a world that is in an ever increasing hurry to do absolutely nothing. We get road rage (newly diagnosed by epidemiologists with – you guessed it: too much free time - as “intermittent explosive disorder“) because we’re in a rush to get home to play a video game featuring people who kill...
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TX: Clerk fatally shoots robber at liquor store: “A liquor store clerk shot and killed one of two armed men who tried to rob the southwest Houston business Wednesday night, police said. ‘Two suspects came in; only one came out,’ said Houston Police Department investigator A. Taravello. The men tried to rob the R-N-R...
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Dubious link between strict parenting and overweight kids Those who did the study excerpted below admit that they left out a couple of important factors but they fail to mention the factor that REALLY explains their results “Clean your plate or else!” and other authoritarian approaches to parenting can lead to overweight children, a...
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