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The Common Wisdom

October 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics

Here’s something to take into the voting booth. Even though life is complicated and the complexity is compounded by the acceleration of information being fed to us every day…we already know what to do. No one needs to tell us how to live or how to vote or what decisions to make. If you are [...]

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Momentous Election in the Age of the “Hick”

October 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics

It is 2010 and the lights are going out all over America. Slowly winding down to darkness. If darkness covers the land of opportunity, when will we find our way forward again? There is no question now about our educational system. It has failed us, and the warnings of Newton Minow, some fifty years ago [...]

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Ric Scott Strikes Again.

August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics

Ric Scott is the Republican nominee for Governor of the state of Florida. We have had times in this country when governors of states were some of the most reprehensible people one could imagine. We have had people like Orville Faubus of Arkansas who said that black children would go to school with white children [...]

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