Do you experience insomnia, nightmares, fatigue, nausea, aches and pains, and an underlying sense of dread? Do you feel like you’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop? Is it difficult for you to trust others because you’re worried they’ll hurt you? Do you frequently feel ashamed, guilty, and worthless? Are you involved...
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I received a letter from a male who was telling me of his breakup after like 20 years of being together. Why did they break up? Because she lost “respect” for her partner after he was reduced to being on crutches after an accident. I guess she just couldn’t be with such a “weak”...
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Best Christmas Presents (2009-11-30) by David John Marotta Many people spend more during the holiday season than they can afford. Guilt or shame drives them to put too many big-ticket items under the tree. But the satisfaction is both short-lived and shortsighted. Understanding the economics of gift giving may help you decide when and...
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Forty some odd years ago, feminists bellowed their way into mainstream attention, launching a major offensive on what they called a patriarchal system that had oppressed women for centuries. Painting women as downtrodden and powerless, they railed against men with the missionary zeal of abolitionists and with largely the same message. In short, women...
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Last week we were jolted with the news that the global warming crisis is a hoax, an ideologically-driven scam based on data that have been routinely doctored, selectively presented, and when necessary, furtively disposed of. But there’s another global disinformation campaign that is still going strong. It’s called the Cult of Domestic Violence. This...
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Weekly Health Update: Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk “A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers…” By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Updated:  11/29/2009 The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendations by the author. Please consult with your physician before making...
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Health Report: Vitamin D & Breast Cancer Risk “A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers…” By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendations by the author. Please consult with your physician before making any lifestyle...
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As readers are now aware, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the main climate research center in Britain, has had 128 megabytes of secret emails and other data placed online by someone calling himself “FOIA.†A number of scientists have been trying for years to get the raw data...
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They just won’t let it go. Even after exposure of illegal activities, bills show up in Congress to find more ways to give money to ACORN. If there is any silver lining, it could be the awakening of taxpayers to the current reality. Beyond “tax and spend,†there’s the eerie question of where all...
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Parents’ rights activist John Murtari was arrested again Monday for writing on the Wayne County Hall of Justice Courthouse in Lyons, NY. Murtari was incarcerated for writing “Mr. Oaks help family rights” one time on the side of the building with washable children’s sidewalk chalk. (Photo) Murtari was joined by two other parents, Scott...
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They say that if you “ride with horse thieves you will get “hung with them”. I wonder if the opposite might also be true: “if you ride with the meek and innocent you will get protected and pampered with them”. Of course, I am talking about chivalry (one of the prominent forms of anti-male...
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Fathers 4 Justice President Donald Tenn has announced the parents’ civil rights group is ramping up their “No Jail For Being A Dad” campaign. See Fathers 4 Justice announce support of CT father on hunger strike. “I left Ohio after my OSU crane protest trial and traveled to Indiana to visit with Fathers 4...
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Mountings. Large ones. Fog, too. We caught the seven-o’clock goat-and-chicken out of Kat, my daughter Macon and I, two porters, and our trusty guide Karna. A Nepalese rural bus is not the Stork Club. It is much better, depending on your nerves. For eight hours we bounced higher into the Himalayas with the tires...
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Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at American Thinker. President Obama last week held a “Town Hall Meeting with Future Chinese Leaders†in the thriving city of Shanghai, itself a remarkable sign of what free-market forces can produce in a short time, even in a place that only decades ago was...
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Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama’s election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of Franklin Roosevelt, and even a budding Abraham Lincolnâ€â€a sort of Savior-in-Chief to rescue an aggrieved nation from the Dantesque tribulations of his predecessor. Mr. Obama’s...
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Going to the Valley * (* In honor of Ayn Rand) 1. Shoot your television. Television is the most destructive force in the world today. By turning it on, you invite into your home and into your mind a conspiracy by some of the most brilliant minds in the world to undermine your sense...
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From yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle  “Bay Area not maverick enough to read Palin book“: It might as well have cooties. Hardly anyone wants to touch the thing, or even get close to it. The new autobiography by moose hunter and failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is harder to find in the Bay...
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Late on the night of of November 19, news broke on PJM and elsewhere that a large amount of data had been stolen from one of the major climate research institutions by an unknown hacker and made available on the Internet. The institution is the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, home institution...
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Climate Emails Stoke Debate: Scientists’ Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming (Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2009). The Wall Street Journal article notes: Representatives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a large professional organization, expressed concern that the hacked emails would weaken global resolve to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. One...
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This is what they did  these climate “scientists†on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic...
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