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How Then Shall We Live?

How Then Shall We Live?

In 1963, Jerry Lewis starred in a slapstick comedy by the title of Who’s Minding the Store? The premise was simple—put a dim-witted clerk in a retail store and see what kind of havoc he can create. However, the most ...

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The Fallout from the 2010 Elections

The Fallout from the 2010 Elections

As the dust settles from the stampede of the November 2010 elections, and we go back to expecting phone solicitors trying to sell us on free cruises in the Caribbean rather than making a pitch for their candidate, the time ...

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The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, is the kind of movie that can only be fully appreciated by first seeing it as a whole and then peeling back its layers and examining them one at a ...

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How Ready is Your Neighborhood?

How Ready is Your Neighborhood?

During the week or so after Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana and Mississippi, the world watched in shock as over half of New Orleans was covered in water and nearly two thousand people lost their lives. While politicians bickered and ...

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Lessons from the Great Depression

Lessons from the Great Depression

I am a child of a child of the Great Depression and what I know of it rests in bits and pieces of largely unheeded conversations between my mother and grandmother. With the economic future that very possibly looms ahead, ...

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Who Writes the Ending?

Who Writes the Ending?

A decade ago everyone, from experts to the guy that had just discovered blogs, was predicting a breakdown in society due to what has come to be known as Y2K. The ensuing scare resulted from a very real possibility: because ...

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The Clock is Ticking for Everyone

The Clock is Ticking for Everyone

13, 574, 468, 725, 001 ….. 121,932 …………. 43, 724 Take a look at those numbers and ponder them for a minute. If you are brave and not given to seizures, you may want to visit www.usdebtclock.org to see how ...

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It’s Not the Land…It’s the Man

It’s Not the Land…It’s the Man

Over the past few years, a growing number of American citizens have begun to consider the previously unthinkable—perhaps it’s time to leave America. Before images of tie-dyed wearing flower children of the 60s or the “if Obama doesn’t win I’m ...

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The Mosque at Ground Zero: A Call for Reasonableness

The Mosque at Ground Zero: A Call for Reasonableness

This site is dedicated to offering solutions for survival in the event of a natural catastrophe, a man-made catastrophe, political unrest or a terrorist attack. Yet somewhere in the midst of preparing for such events, we cannot afford to divorce ...

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