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A MARRIAGE IS A TEAM |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 |
Is a happy marriage about compromise?
On the surface, I’d say yes, compromise is certainly part of two different people sharing a life together. You can’t do everything you want whenever you want it, etc.
But looking at this question a little more closely, I’d have to say an emphatic, “no.” Compromise is not really the key. Compromise is when one person wants a room painted yellow, the other wants it painted blue, and so you compromise and get green. Compromise is sometimes win/win, sometimes not. There are certainly times when you have to compromise, but that isn’t the driving force of a great relationship.
What is the driving force of a great relationship? A winning premise; a conception of what your relationship is all about that includes a shared vision of the two of you together.
A great relationship is founded on the premise that you and your mate are allies; that you are a team together.
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THE MYTH OF THE "HOMEGROWN TERRORIST" |
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Written by Michael Ledeen
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 |
We are guided by myths more often than by reason. Nothing new
there; man is a myth-making animal. Myths spring up from our
collective unconscious, they cover the globe, and they shape our
thoughts and actions. The great philosophers and the great
psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts tried hard to "free us"
from myths so that we could properly understand our world and
ourselves. Spinoza thought that emotions were the result of unclear
ideas..I don't agree.
Good news: the doctor is in, and he's
going to help you. He's more modest about his abilities than the great
thinkers and healers, so he's just going to help you understand our
world. As for understanding yourself, well, maybe Obamacare will pay
for it.
The Myth of the Day is: the "homegrown terrorist."
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SHOULD ALMOST EVERYTHING BE PRIVATIZED? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013 |
With money running low, government functions become inviable
As a mental challenge, try to think of all of the governmental activities — federal, state and local — that could be privatized. Now, go a step further. Suppose you were required to develop a plan to privatize, or make self-supporting through user fees, nearly every activity of government.
Could you or a group of your friends do it? Try it. I expect your success will surprise you.
The reason this is relevant is because most governments will reach their borrowing limits in the not-too-distant future, which means they will have to operate on current revenue from taxes and fees. Many governments have reached or are reaching their ability to increase taxes, and income-tax systems will begin to fall under their own weight. Governments will be forced to downsize and privatize — or private citizens and groups will just take over as they are increasingly doing because of failing government schools, for example.
The U.S. government was created to protect people and property and to ensure liberty; but more and more often, it does just the opposite.
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BOILING FROGS, SHEEP, AND LEMMINGS |
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Written by Paul Rosenberg
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013 |
People who accept and welcome change are always frustrated by those
who oppose and condemn it. Somewhat understandably, they tend to make
unattractive comparisons between the stasis people and dumb animals,
such as calling them lemmings, sheep or, boiling frogs. And while these
comparisons may not be without some basis, they are less than useful.
After all, if you call someone a lemming, they are not likely to
consider your arguments very warmly. Instead, they will reflexively and
vigorously defend their current position. So, fitting or not, animal
comparisons don't help much.
It is also true that such comparisons are often untrue. Ostriches,
for example, do not hide their heads in the sand. The image is
evocative, but it is fictional.
One such image that has become popular in our time is that of the boiling frog.
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THE PRICE OF FREE STUFF IS FREEDOM |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 03 May 2013 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/26/13 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 26 April 2013 |
After this week's developments in the Boston Marathon
bombing, it's easy to see why a Marxist sociopath would pretend to be a
bipartisan moderate:
*Tamerlan Tsarnaev stayed home collecting
welfare benefits and plotting terror while his wife worked 80 hours a week
*Russia warned the FBI repeatedly
about Tsarnaev, but the FBI let Tsarnaev's listing on a terror watch list list expire
while he was in Dagestan, where he may have gotten guidance
on bomb-making.
"Is the FBI focused
enough on the real bad guys?" asked the editors of the Washington
Post. If it's the Washington Post
asking that question, you can be pretty sure what the answer is.
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Zero's latest effort to make sequester budget cuts hurt
backfired, big time.
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Democrats are nearing full fledged panic about Obamacare.
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President Obama chose dolts to be his secretary of state and
his secretary of defense. I was certain SecDef Chuck Hagel would be the bigger
dufus. I was wrong.
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There is an absolutely terrible reason for Republicans to
support immigration reform, and an equally terrible reason for Republicans to
oppose it.
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THE SAINTS WHO LOST PARADISE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 26 April 2013 |
Jamestown, St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean. If you have ever
heard of this little 47 square mile island lost in a vast sea, 1,200
miles west of Africa and 1,800 miles east of Brazil, it’s because here
is where the British exiled Napoleon after Waterloo, and here is where
he died.
The 5½ years of Napoleon’s exile – October 15, 1815 to his death on May
5, 1821 – dominate the island’s 500-year history. For the last 354
years, since 1659, it has been a British possession. Yet such is the
grip of Napoleon that the Brits ceded the home and property of where he
lived in exile on St. Helena – called Longwood House – to the government
of France.
It is French territory, as is his original burial place nearby.
Moreover, there is a Consul appointed by the French government, who
lives in a diplomat’s mansion on the island.
Personally, I have no regard for a megalomaniac responsible for the
deaths of millions of people. The Brits should have treated him as a
war criminal, executed him by firing squad aboard a ship far out to sea,
and dumped his body in the ocean.
But no. Instead...
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OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IS BROKEN. WHO BROKE IT? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 |
The Boston massacre has cast a shadow over the
844-page immigration reform bill the “Gang of 8” introduced in the
Senate last week.
After claiming refugee status to get into the U.S.,
Tamerlan Tsarnev traveled freely to the country he claimed was
persecuting him. The Tsarnevs aren’t the first legal immigrants to be
involved in terror plots. Of the 19 hijackers on 9/11, 15 were Saudis,
so it seems odd the number of visas issued to Saudis has increased 500
percent.
Why do we let Muslims into the country at all?
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THE OSTRICH APPROACH TO FIGHTING TERROR DOESN'T WORK |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Monday, 22 April 2013 |
President Barack Obama cautioned us Friday to “take care not to
rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals;
certainly not about entire groups of people.”
Liberals fret the Great Unwashed, frightened and
angered by an act of terror, may lash out at Muslims indiscriminately.
The “backlash” liberals dread exists only in their feverish
imaginations. Americans know the difference between Tamerlan and
Dzhokar on the one hand, and Uncle Ruslan on the other, just as our
parents and grandparents knew the difference between Nazis, and
Americans of German ancestry.
It’s liberals who have difficulty distinguishing
between the vast majority of Muslims here who aren’t trying to kill us,
and the small subset among them who are.
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YOUR FIGHT AGAINST ENTROPY IS YOUR LIFE’S CREATION |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 |
Entropy is a term from physics that describes the tendency for matter to move from order into disorder. Life can be seen as deliberately working against entropy.
With our minds, we train our own brains to hold the structure of our lives. The habits that we practice daily, weekly, monthly; they are all based on neural pathways that we have established in our brain that make it easy and natural for us to follow these routines. These habits – if they are good ones - help us to resist entropy and have a sense of meaning, purpose and direction.
When you have a plan, and you are persistent with that plan, your habits become your allies. They work for you to reach your goals, so that you don’t have to work against your habits. What you create through your own fight against entropy is the masterpiece of your life.
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THE GOOD GUYS ARE NOT COMING TO SAVE US |
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Written by Paul Rosenberg
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 |
A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up and fix things.
Some think that certain groups of politicians will pull it together and fix things, or that one magnificent politician will ride in to fix things. Others think that certain members of the military will step in and slap the politicians back into line. And, I’m sure there are other variations.
There are several problems with this. I’ll start with the small issues:
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ROTTING FISH AND THE AMERICAN FUTURE |
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Written by Michael Ledeen
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 |
Roger L. Simon is right (he’s always right); leadership is crucial, and when leadership is rotten the whole body politic rots and stinks. Our biggest problem is rotten leadership. Until and unless we fix that, we’re gonna have lots of trouble. Of all sorts.
SIDEBAR: This is why I have no patience for so many of my friends who constantly say the president has the right to choose his team (whether a new “czar” or a new judge or justice or a secretary of something or other). If the choice is bad, we should say so and fight it. Good leaders are worth fighting for and bad leaders have to be challenged.
BACK TO SERMON: Roger understands the way the system works by saying that the FBI’s failure to look carefully and long enough at Tamerlan-the-terrorist has a lot to do with our leaders’ reluctance to call a terrorist a terrorist or to accept the fact that radical Islamist terrorists exist.
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WHEN IS TOO MUCH SECURITY TOO MUCH? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 |
Measures that slow the economy block better solutions
Should Americans be spending more on public security, or less? After a week of two horrific events, the Boston Marathon attack and the Texas fertilizer-plant explosion, most would probably answer the above question by saying, “We’re not spending enough.” Such an emotional response is not surprising particularly after seeing the highly competent and courageous response of the police, firefighters and medical first responders.
On Friday, I received an email from a friend asking the question, “Did it make sense to close down half of Massachusetts for a day to capture one 19-year-old suspected terrorist? No, unless he was part of a bigger cell which was the unknown for the police. Did the huge redeployment of law enforcement resources for the week to catch the perpetrators result in more nonrelated terrorist murders or auto fatalities (or perhaps even fewer)?”
One occasionally hears the comment that “we should spend whatever is necessary” to stop terrorism. It sounds good, but on reflection, it makes no sense, and here's why...
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SAUDI TRAVELING SALESMAN RECEIVES BENEFICIAL DEPORTATION |
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Written by Comrade Nomenklatura-climber
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Friday, 26 April 2013 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/19/13 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 19 April 2013 |
Salon.
columnist David Sirota hoped the guy who planted two IEDs at the finish line of
the Boston Marathon Monday was a "white American" like Timothy McVeigh. But the culprits are radicalized Muslims from
Chechnya.
Liberal journalists have begun to caution us against
"overreacting" to the Boston Massacre.
The same liberals, mostly, who want us to overreact to the Newtown
massacre.
Liberals often have expressed fear the Great Unwashed,
frightened and angered by a horrific act of terror, would string up Muslims
from lampposts. But ordinary Americans
have responded to Boston in exemplary fashion, as they did after
9/11/2012. Bad behavior has pretty much
been restricted to Democrat politicians and bigfoot journalists.
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The defeat of gun control legislation is an "unmitigated
disaster" for President Obama, which threatens to make him a lame duck far
earlier than any president before him.
Neither he nor the news media took defeat well.
What had to be especially galling for Zero and his media
allies is that defeat came in the Senate, at the hands of Red State Democrats.
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The "Gang of Eight" introduced an 844-page immigration reform
bill. Big majorities
of Republicans as well as of Americans support what the bill's sponsors say it
will do. But will it?
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