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Celebrity and its role in social change: Angelina Jolie
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Liven up Memorial Day meals with tips and recipes from the experts
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Kerry, Hague and peace-talk hypocrisy
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Is Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) a buy?
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Brandywine Museums & Gardens Alliance honors U.S. Military
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March against Monsanto: Raising concern over healthy food freedoms
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The loss of self-denial in our culture
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TV tonight: PBS features female Civil War soldier Loreta Velazquez
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Radical Islam does not exist: Islam is the enemy
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In Season: Aphrodisiac ingredients you should be eating right now
Mike Shortridge
Mike is a former Marine who served in the Middle East. He is disgusted with both the Republican and Democratic parties, seeing them as two heads of the same beast. He writes from the conservative perspective, with a focus on making complex subjects easy to understand.
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Brass Tacks
Resist classification.
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Why Benghazi is the least worrisome foreign scandal for team Obama
Benghazi is not the first foreign policy scandal for the Obama Administration.
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President Obama's school for scandal: A real-life tragedy
The Obama Administration scandals just keep coming.
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Obama, Benghazi and the risky business of promoting regime change
How ironic it eventually prove to be if President Obama is remembered for proving just how dangerous it can be to practice “regime change”?
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How to fail at governing America, without really trying
Symbols alone, even historic ones, do not mark enduring success.
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Why Benghazi is the least worrisome foreign scandal for team Obama
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LifeCycles
The “Silver Tsunami” created by aging Baby Boomers is hitting America. Let’s explore how we adjust to it, enjoy it and defy negative expectations about age.
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Rick Townley's World of Books & Publishing
A carefully guided tour through the confusing world of modern bookselling and publishing.
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Ingredients for Healthy Living
Reflections on raising families in a holistic way -- with a focus on nutrition and alternative health.
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Museum Mavens
News and reviews of notable museums, and exhibits, and art events.
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Business Browser
When you need to know who is making business, and what business is being made, you need the Business Browser.
Recent Entries by Mike Shortridge
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North Korea: Forget the nukes, the real threat is binary
Published 11:18 a.m. April 7, 2013
Think North Korea can’t reach the US from the other side of the globe? Think again.
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MSNBC-Melissa Harris-Perry says "kids belong to whole communities"
Published 8:10 p.m. April 7, 2013
Tulane professor / MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says we need to progress to state ownership of children. Mao Zedong would be proud.
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Stockton, CA bankrupt: Expect Cyprus like solution for bond holdersl
Published 8:41 p.m. April 1, 2013
Six figure pensions and “free” healthcare for life for everybody!
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Cyprus is far from fixed: Second bailout will likely be required
Published 6:41 p.m. March 28, 2013
One of the worlds most renowned experts on sovereign debt sees more pain coming to Cyprus, and they may not be the only ones.
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Cyprus banking crisis: Could it affect the US?
Published 4:02 p.m. March 23, 2013
Are there systemic risk elements of the Cypriot banking crisis? More than you may have imagined.
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Ambulance chaser Harry Reid blames sequester for Nevada Marine deaths
Published 9:47 p.m. March 20, 2013
Tragedy: n. 1. a shocking or sad event; disaster. Synonym: opportunity
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The secret of the “new” stock market: Bad news is now good news!
Published 5:31 p.m. March 20, 2013
Thanks to the plunge protection team manning banks of super-computers, making money in the stock market is a snap!
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The wealth tax: The tiny island of Cyprus gets a haircut
Published 3:38 p.m. March 17, 2013
Cyprus is bailing out its banks, by robbing the bank deposits.
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CPAC 2013: Conservative coalescence or Neo-Con vs Libertarian?
Published 8:00 p.m. March 13, 2013
The conservative base is fractured. Four-million registered Republicans did not vote in the 2012 presidential election. Why not?
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Brennan's unconventional oath of office: New trend in the making?
Published 10:01 a.m. March 9, 2013
CIA director John Brennan took the oath of office with his hand on a draft of the constitution, which did not include the bill of rights.
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Rand Paul's filibuster: Why "due process of law" matters
Published 7:54 p.m. March 7, 2013
That leaders find admitting “nor deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" still has legal authority is amazing.
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Bankrupt Detroit to become a ward of the state
Published 8:07 p.m. February 28, 2013
Detroit is bankrupt and becoming more dangerous by the day.
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Obama's sequester bluff gets called, hilarity ensues
Published 6:04 p.m. February 28, 2013
Now that the sequester is upon us, the White House is backpedaling as fast as they can, as the hyperbole yielded no new taxes.
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Pre-existing condition? Act now or never
Published 9:12 a.m. February 24, 2013
There is a March 2 deadline to apply for high-risk insurance coverage under Obamacare. They are broke and cannot accept more.
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Sequestration: The end of the world as we know it
Published 5:34 p.m. February 22, 2013
With federal spending only increasing by $15 billion in 2013 if the sequester is not avoided, untold millions may die.
