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According to a study published in the Archives of Surgery, God can change an otherwise hopeless circumstance:
“Most of both groups trust a doctor’s decision to withdraw treatment when futility is determined. More of the public (57.4%) than the professionals (19.5%) believe that divine intervention could save a person when physicians believe treatment is futile.“
Throughout the […]

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Like many, I have been watching the Olympics.  I truly enjoy some of the categories and, while others are not my favorites, it is even fun to watch “the best” in those sports.  It difficult to imagine the time and effort expended to achieve the level of perfection displayed by all the athletes.
Some of the […]

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Here we go again… some economically ignorant Congressmen are jumping on the results of a recent report by the GAO that indicates companies try to avoid paying federal income taxes.
First, please remember that companies don’t really pay taxes… people do.  Companies pass taxes through as a cost of doing business.  Their customers pay the taxes.   […]

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I’ve often spoke of the need for our education system to be reformed.  It has become too institutionalized, supports primarily the needs and wants of the teachers and teachers’ union (which has become one of the single largest political entities) rather than the requirements of the students, our children, the next generation of leaders of […]

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Before making my main point, let me acknowledge that the economy is not going great guns.  There are certainly some problems, the most significant (in my opinion) is all the fallout from the subprime housing market fiasco.
An aside:  The subprime mess could have been avoided and was fueled by both greed and politics from the […]

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