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President Admits Obamacare Will Block Access to Many Doctors Despite promising that those who liked their doctors would be able to keep them under Obamacare, President Obama now admits that “in many instances this will not be possible. On balance,
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Unbeknownst to most people who look at famous names, stars or political leaders—they share one thing in common: they experienced multiple failures on their way toward their success.
Through all of my life there has been an odd and persistent bias on the part of otherwise honest Americans: What America does overseas is always good and right. We do not speak against it.
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"But to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all—ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.” Dr. Otis Graham, Unguarded Gates
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
Seriously Ill Hurt by Obamacare a “Tiny Minority” As the number of seriously ill patients whose access to treatment has been impeded by the Affordable Care Act continues to increase, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius insists th
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By 2042, Mexicans-Latinos in America will become the dominant demographic group at 51 percent, culture and language displacing American English. Influx of Latinos into America will outnumber European-Americans within 29 years.
I regularly hear how important it is to hold silver and gold and how dangerous the central banks and their banksters (a combination of bankers and gangsters) really are. I’m sympathetic, of course, since I don’t like central banks and I do like silve
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, “Until my ghastly tale is told; this heart within me burns.” From his epic work: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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One of the most beautiful phenomena in the natural world -- the annual mass migration of 60 million monarchs from Canada to Mexico – stands on the verge of being a relic of history. We need to fight this now.
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SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
Senate Democrats Reject Limits on IRS Intimidation of Political Speech In the midst of the Obama Administration's efforts to “reform” IRS regulations, the Senate Democratic majority rejected language proposed by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that wou
The century is only 14 years old, but we already know the Worst Platitude of the Century. No other platitude can possibly come along for the next 86 years that could be more inane, insipid, or banal.
People remember Thomas Jefferson for the Declaration of Independence, which he wrote in 1776. A few will remember that he served as president from 1801 to 1809, but aside from that, they know almost nothing of his life and work.
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Please understand this fact: no one possesses enough money, fame or power to overcome setbacks or failure at some juncture in his or her life. Learn how to deal with it and evolve into a more positive human being.
The Internet is full of stories about politicians acting badly and doing the opposite of what they promised. Talk radio is full of the same things, all day, every day. Even around office water coolers, almost everyone will admit that politicians are
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At some moments in our lives, we feel depressed or “low” from something that happened to us. We might suffer a defeat on the sporting field. At some juncture, we may grieve our circumstance in a hopeless job or situation.
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My father died of a heart attack at 46 years of age. His death changed the course of my life. To know such pain in your teens, your father’s death, (even your mother’s) creates a hole in your heart for a lifetime.
The Great Philosophical Question about Politics and People
So, if we want to get a glimpse of human nature before it’s stressed and shaped during the crazy years, we should really go to pre-teens.
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
FCC Chairman Says Critics Are Overreacting to New Plan The Federal Communications Commission plan to send “researchers” into newsrooms in order to observe how stories are selected and reported has sparked fears of government intimidation and censo
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Fifty years from now, historians will write on various aspects of the collapse of the United States of America. They will write about how America turned into a schizophrenic-multicultural society; a linguistically chaotic country.
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In that application, you may hit a “chord” in your nervous system, your heart and your intellect. Once you hear the “chimes” flowing with your talents, pursue them with vigor.
The United States is not an empire. The United States never has been an empire. The United States never will be an empire.
I read a story recently about a group of dandies who want to “help regulate Bitcoin, for its own good.” The thing about these guys is that they don’t really care about Bitcoin as a beautiful, disruptive technology or even for the great benefit it bri
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
Obama Defends “Flip-Flop” on Executive Orders Before he became President, Senator Barack Obama was a strident critic of George Bush's use of Executive Orders to get around Congressional participation in policy making.