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Kaci Hickox Is A Hero–Now On Two Counts

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Kaci Hickox is a hero. First for volunteering to help treat Ebola patients, as eradicating Ebola in West Africa is the only way to handle this disease. She became a hero again for standing up to unjust restrictions upon her civil liberties upon returning home and supporting the concept of making political decisions based upon science and reason as opposed to giving in to public … [Read more...] about Kaci Hickox Is A Hero–Now On Two Counts

Voting Millennials Support Republican-Run Congress

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Gone are the days of young people heavily voting Democratic. The millennial vote is up for grabs and could even swing next week’s elections, according to a poll the Harvard University Institute of Politics released Wednesday. In a departure from youth responses in 2010, a little more than half of 18-to-29-year-olds who said they plan to… … [Read more...] about Voting Millennials Support Republican-Run Congress

Halloween: The Orange and Black

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The Orange and Black Raging Moderate by Will Durst Here it comes. Creeping down dark alleys. Overturning garbage cans and spooking black cats. The scariest day of the year. With the exception of your next birthday, that is. Halloween. All Hallow's Eve. The night preceding All Saint's Day. Time to carve a gourd. Besides being an excellent excuse to gorge on candy corn and … [Read more...] about Halloween: The Orange and Black

Mystery of Amelia Earhart Solved? Fragment From Missing Plane Identified

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Researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) revealed that a piece from Amelia Earhart’s vanished aircraft has been identified in Nikumaroro, an atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. This is the first time that an artifact from the wreckage has been directly linked to Earhart’s last expedition, in which she was… … [Read more...] about Mystery of Amelia Earhart Solved? Fragment From Missing Plane Identified

Canada’s Terrorism Turning Point

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[icopyright one button toolbar] TORONTO, Canada -- The live TV coverage on CBCNN brought back memories of another assassination -- the assassination of JFK. A funeral procession punctuated by drumbeats and bagpipes. Only this time, a country's grief focused on Corporal Nathan Cirillo. Only this time, the haunting image of a child that'll be reproduced forever was … [Read more...] about Canada’s Terrorism Turning Point

Moderate thunder out of Kansas

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. IOLA, Kan. -- The several dozen citizens gathered at a street corner just off the main square of this southeastern Kansas town of 5,600 were polite and friendly in the Midwestern way. They did not look in the least like a band of counterrevolutionaries intent on reversing the direction of the government in Topeka. Yet the results of the tea party … [Read more...] about Moderate thunder out of Kansas

Birth control device linked to serious harm in women; maker covered up dangers

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By Miriam Raftery SAN DIEGO, Ca - An ABC News investigation that includes 10 News in San Diego reveals that the maker of the Essure birth control device covered up evidence that patients have been seriously harmed by the device for over a decade. [icopyright one button toolbar] The device consists of metal coils that are implanted inside a woman’s Fallopian tubes to … [Read more...] about Birth control device linked to serious harm in women; maker covered up dangers

Obamacare’s Post Mid-Term Future

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Jason Millman discusses a Harvard meta-analysis of polls on the Affordable Care Act on The Washington Post's Wonkblog. [icopyright one button toolbar] Although the politics of Obamacare have cooled down this year — and even with declining interest in this year's midterms — the upcoming election will have a bigger influence on the direction of health care than you may think. … [Read more...] about Obamacare’s Post Mid-Term Future

Do Americans deserve this?

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In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations. The number of requests, contained in a 2014 audit of the … [Read more...] about Do Americans deserve this?

The ‘Blackwaterization’ of War: Obama is Gambling on it (L’Orient Le Jour, Lebanon)

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[icopyright one button toolbar] After a trial that for some reason lasted seven years, last week a jury convicted four former Blackwater mercenaries of murdering 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a firefight on September 16, 2007 aka/ Baghdad's Bloody Sunday. For Lebanon's L'Orient Le Jour, columnist Christian Merville writes that despite the convictions - which will … [Read more...] about The ‘Blackwaterization’ of War: Obama is Gambling on it (L’Orient Le Jour, Lebanon)

My Health Care Premiums

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[icopyright one button toolbar] On a side note, the image of the rainbow was taken from my bike and close to where I live. I couldn’t find the pot of gold on either side. It kept moving! A few months ago there was a post and subsequent thread about how much healthcare insurance premiums might rise in 2015. There was even a suggestion that rates at Kaiser Permanente … [Read more...] about My Health Care Premiums

Arguing Against Counterproductive Hysteria Over Ebola

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[icopyright one button toolbar] While the outbreak of Ebola began in West Africa about ten months ago, we have now had only nine patients with Ebola in this country. Most were brought in for treatment after contracting it elsewhere. One is currently undergoing treatment. One died. All the rest have recovered. There have been zero cases of transmission in the general … [Read more...] about Arguing Against Counterproductive Hysteria Over Ebola

Pope Francis: Evolution Is Real; God Is Not A ‘Magician’

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Pope Francis has come out in defense of the theory of evolution, saying the scientific principle is not incompatible with Catholic doctrine. He said the world did not begin as “a work of chaos,” but instead emerged from a principle of love, and that creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive ideas. "God is not a… … [Read more...] about Pope Francis: Evolution Is Real; God Is Not A ‘Magician’

Nowadays we need sane asylums (Guest Voice)

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Nowadays we need sane asylums By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — It used to be that psychiatrists put insane people into insane asylums. However, today, everyone is seemingly insane. Sort of. Just look at the pathology of our youth, the dysfunction of our families, the violence in our day to day lives, the poisonous popular culture to which we expose our children … [Read more...] about Nowadays we need sane asylums (Guest Voice)