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If Not For America…Then Who?
It was my nephew’s college graduation. Everyone was excited – the graduates, their families, the professors and staff members. The ceremony was held outside and the weather was perfect, clear skies, warm sunshine, a light breeze carried the scent of freshly bloomed flowers across the picturesque southern campus. It was…
China – Pulling America’s Purse Strings
President Ronald Reagan believed in America. He also believed in protecting America. And he put his money where his mouth was. Serially underestimated by his adversaries and even by most of his close friends, Reagan performed not only the greatest geo-political feat of the 20th Century, but also the greatest…
When Patients Cry Wolf
As children we all learned the story of the boy who cried wolf and its underlying message warning of the dangers of being dishonest. The simple story teaches a powerful lesson that most of us carry with us throughout our lives. There are those, however, who seem either to have…
Sublimation: No Excuse To Harm
It’s a simple concept taught in most high school chemistry classes – sublimation – when a material, in solid phase, converts directly to the gas phase without passing first through the liquid phase. The classic example is dry ice which, in actuality, is frozen carbon dioxide. At room temperature, dry…
Blaming The System
By now most Americans are aware that our country is in financial trouble – big financial trouble. In fact, from a financial standpoint, America is virtually on the brink of economic collapse. The reasons for this, according to pundits and politicians, are many: runaway federal spending, a huge negative trade…
Biology Run Amok
Biology – it is the substance of our being, the very essence of our existence. Of course, personal experiences and environmental exposures shape our psychology. But every last thing about us – what we look like, what we think, what we say, what we do, our personality itself – rests…
War On Terror Or World War III
It might not be what you expected. After all, for nearly half a century, we were conditioned to believe that the next world war would consist of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Nevertheless, many are now beginning to refer (though some have been doing so for some…
