I'm Very Sad

(Thu Mar 20th, 2008, by Bob Miller)

LONDON - Paul Scofield , the towering British stage actor who won international fame and an Academy Award for the film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86. The passing of great men like Scofied leaves such a void. These are men who pu...

No Longer the Standard

(Tue Mar 4th, 2008, by Bob Miller)

VIENNA, Austria - OPEC has virtually ruled out pumping more oil to ease record-high prices, key oil ministers signaled Tuesday on the eve of a cartel meeting. Next will come the news that OPEC is going to the Money Basket. The US dollar will no ...

The Band-Aid

(Wed Feb 27th, 2008, by Bob Miller)

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned Congress that the country is in for a period of sluggish economic growth given the housing bust and credit crunch. (Yahoo 02/27/08) I will not try to hide my delight. I will not go to...

Justice Cometh

(Tue Feb 26th, 2008, by Bob Miller)

New York - No good news today on the economic front. Consumer confidence plunged, the wholesale inflation rate soared, the number of homes being foreclosed jumped, home prices fell sharply and a report predicts big increases in health care costs. ...

A Deep, Deadly River of Hypocrisy

(Tue Feb 26th, 2008, by Bob Miller)

Americans delight in reading and talking about how our ragtag army drove the bloody imperialistic British out of the Colonies. It is funny how we seldom mention the help the French gave us unless of course we feel it would needlessly dilute our glo...

The origin of human rights

(Tue Jan 29th, 2008, by Amit Varma)

This is the 42nd installment of Thinking it Through, and over the last 41 weeks, I have often bored my readers with talk of “rights” and “freedoms” and so on. Such talk is everywhere—politicians love to speak of rights to display their comp...

Some Traditions are Great! (And Some are Not)

(Tue Dec 4th, 2007, by Marilyn Mackenzie)

Not all traditions are bad. Of course they're not. Some traditions are what keep our families glued together. But in businesses, in churches, even in families, tradition just for the sake of tradition can be bad. Knowing why we participate in traditi...

Who Is Dr. Lit-hung Leung?

(Tue Dec 4th, 2007, by Samantha I. Snare)

Lit-Hung Leung, M.D. discovered that B5 vitamins were effective in successfully treating acne. Because of his research, many people have discovered the benefits of vitamin B5. His research has allowed many people to successfully heal their acne. Init...

Value MyHeart

(Tue Dec 4th, 2007, by Marilyn Mackenzie)

I ran across a website: http://www.unitedstatesartists.org. There, they quoted a study by Urban Institute, Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists (2003), and Rand Research in the Arts, Gifts of the Muse: Reframing ...

Read This Before You Buy Mace or Pepper Spray

(Tue Dec 4th, 2007, by Santiago Gutierrez)

Non-lethal self defense is becoming more and more advanced with time and in today's violent day and age it is extra important that you give yourself a fighting edge. Buying mace or pepper spray can seem a bit confusing to some people, but having a sm...