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  • We’re Overdue for a Reality Check

    We’re Overdue for a Reality Check1

    “Denial,” goes an old Alcoholics Anonymous word-pun, “isn’t just a river in Egypt.” Agreed. My online dictionary defines denial as “the action of declaring something to be untrue, a statement that something is not true.” A classic example of that definition recently happened in Los Angeles. Likely boosted by a media looking for headlines, officials

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  • We’re Buried in Debt with Nothing to Show for It

    We’re Buried in Debt with Nothing to Show for It5

    The United States of America is over $30 trillion in debt, give or take some hundreds of billions of dollars. As shown by the U.S. National Debt Clock, that means that every citizen is in debt for approximately $92,000. The debt per actual taxpayer is about $245,000. Click on the National Debt Clock site, and

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  • We’re All on This Train Together

    We’re All on This Train Together0

    “All aboard!”            North Carolina writer Anna Raglan was delighted to find that Amtrak’s conductors still called out these words to passengers before departing the station. In her new travelogue The Train From Greenville, Raglan, a kind and wise friend of mine, describes a journey she made by rail from Greenville,

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  • We’re Sitting Ducks

    We’re Sitting Ducks0

    • September 18, 2015

    The economic recession of 2007-09 made many Americans aware how dependent upon the government and the present system they had become. Those who had recently bought houses with little down payments were underwater on their homes. Those who had accumulated a large amount of student loan debt as an “investment” saw their “guaranteed” job opportunities

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  • We’re Being Trained NOT To See

    We’re Being Trained NOT To See1

    I was reflecting today on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha. According to Buddhist myth, Siddhartha was born under a prophecy that he would either become a great military ruler or a supremely enlightened holy man. His father wanted the former, so he raised Siddhartha in a bubble of sorts, filling his

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  • We’re Being Shaped by Smut

    We’re Being Shaped by Smut0

    Some time ago, I was surprised to see an acquaintance sharing the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series by Sarah J. Maason social media. This acquaintance is a professing Christian. Maas’ book, on the other hand, is borderline erotica. “You are what you eat,” the popular phrase runs. This originates from French lawyer Jean

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