“Energy Vampires” are bullies at work.  They’ll suck your motivation and drive, and destroy morale and productivity.  But because they’re usually not recognized and labeled as bullies, they’re allowed to flourish. Rather than give a wordy description, let’s identify and label some common examples of their bullying: The Know-It-All.  He’s right about everything – what [...]

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Yes, the Academy of Family Physicians has been hijacked by the Democratic party to push their health care bill. My latest email tells me: We are closer than ever to achieving significant health care reform in America. Unfortunately, propaganda and misunderstanding about pending legislation threaten to derail its success. “We” are closer? That implies that [...]

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I don’t sail or spend much time at all on the water.  But I would like to.  Boating is just a lot of time and money and I don’t have too much of either of those right now.  Nonetheless, sailing is still really interesting and an ideal that I look up to.  Now there is [...]

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From the moment I saw the cover of Jerome Peterson’s book Thumb Flagging I just knew that I was going to enjoy it. My mother has a saying, ‘you should never judge a book by its cover’. I disagree, but that is the subject of another article, you can indeed tell a great deal about [...]

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Jimmy Root Jr. has just published his first book Distant Thunder, it is the first of a planned trilogy The Lightning Chronicles. I was greatly impressed with Distant Thunder, and knew that I had to track down Jimmy Root Jr. to ask him about this book. There are few perks being a book reviewer, but [...]

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A few nights ago, I went bowling with some of my friends.  I won one game and did quite badly on the other two, but that’s not the point.  They were playing a bunch of music videos at the alley that night because there weren’t any big sporting events on.  One of the music videos [...]

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American democracy is at great risk because our primary media are spewing out misinformation — opinions designed to win monies either for their original sponsors or those distributing them. Greedy corporations have been dominating us with disastrous results. As a professional philosopher recently retired, I am appalled by this situation. In depth research by our [...]

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It has been reported that millions of Hessian bags that were used by James Hardie in Australia to transport potentially deadly asbestos were recycled and made into carpets. It is claimed that many of the bags were used to make the felt flooring that is laid underneath carpets, and further fuels fears over asbestos exposure. [...]

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Leave it to leftist Hollywood to completely circumvent the truth of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco and turn it into more class warfare against the evil capitalists. Here are quotes they are using to advertise this left-wing socialist propaganda titled “American Casino” that is playing in select cities:  “American Casino is a powerful and shocking look [...]

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Ashley wakes up from a nightmare and then cries in Victor’s arms. She tells him she dreamed that Sabrina was in the house and she tried to take the baby. Victor thinks back to when Jack kept insisting that she is in pieces. He tries to calm her down telling her she is safe and [...]

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This just in from The Sky 97.3′s TJ Hart – Simon After a busy week in the Haleigh Cummings abduction case where the last person to see the 6-year-old Satsuma girl who’s been missing since February failed her 4th polygraph, a Bounty Hunter involved in the Caylee Anthony case Sunday made an open offer to [...]

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Researching sexual orientation and health and mental health correlates, I came across a reference to Michael Bailey’s 1999 commentary on the topic in a book review by Dean Byrd, Shirley Cox and Jeffrey Robinson. The way Dr. Bailey was quoted had him saying things that I did not think he believed. I sent the link [...]

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The family of a woman who died from the asbestos cancer known as mesothelioma are suing sixty eight defendants over her exposure to asbestos, and her subsequent illness and death. The family of Sharon LaDuke claim that she was exposed to asbestos while working as a clerk at the Potsdam Civic Center. According to the [...]

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