NRA, the National Rifle Association, has long been using firearms massacres to promote their products - guns. Their answer to any kind of gun related killing is to give more guns to more people. If you thought we're living in a utopia, and that would somehow take the guns off the hands of people who shouldn't have them, that might make sense. If you thought everyone having a gun on them at all times, people could protect themselves, that might make sense in Wild West as well.
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Should there be a law that prospective parents, particularly women, be required to obtain a license before their first pregnancy? Or for each pregnanc...
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Fads in mental health diagnoses come and go. Something called Existential Neurosis was popular for a while, but seems to have lost some of its gloss i...
While countries around the world are trying to get people to use less plastic bags, the African country Kenya has gone way further than any Western co...
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It�s time for me to come out of a dark closet. I am a proud non-believer, a better-than-thou, evangelical atheist, if you will.
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Guys, how many times have you been looking at magazines at the newstand when you hear the uneven breath of a pasty-faced pudge-ball next to you?
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Over Thanksgiving dinner a guest challenged a political opinion I’d offered. She said, “Why bother having opinions, you can’t change anything about th...
Dumb choices could lead to death for Australians: A look at how the death penalty is in Australia's face for the first time since the 1960s.
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HELLO KIDDIES and welcome to the journal. This week I would like to discuss something very important which is freedom. This country was founded on the...
Hello friends Doing something different this week, bear with me.
What if George W Bush would leave office?
Would we truly be free?
Free from the ...
Unlike a great many Canadian folk who have not only accepted the long winters, but actually look forward to them, (for reasons a hibernating homo sapi...
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope. (Robert Frost - 1914 "The Death of the Hired Man")
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Remember back in the days when people had those bumper stickers that said “have you hugged your kid today?” Yeah, it seems like a long time ago. Well,...
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To my way of thinking, a surf culture, be it in Bondi or Big Sur, would be lost without the automobile ( just try getting to the beach with your surfb...
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Ever read any of Bill Bryson's travel guides? Impressed? Well over the next few weeks / months and so on I'll be putting up my view of the world, an o...
Homeowners looking for a slice of country life are clamouring to buy chickens, goats and even pigs, but setting up a miniature 'farm' on a quarter-acr...
Someone just asked me to join a network marketing company again. Does this happen to you as well? This article seeks to uncover the dirt about this la...
George is a regular man, he used to be an auto-mechanic, but he quit 2 years ago. He was very good in what he did, but at some point he had to stop wo...
Every time any wussie says George W. Bush isn’t acting like a Christian, I start growling and try to bite ‘em. Uncle Karl said I’m such a faithful wat...
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Hey, everyone. This week, Masterpiece Cinema is proud to present…a movie that we’ve already presented…wait, what’s that?
Ever wondered where you lie between the two extremes which appear in almost every aspect of life? Or perhaps you are holding one of the end...
Good evening, everyone, or morning, or afternoon, or whatever time it might be when you happen to be enjoying this article. Let's do it, shall we?
It is artist like Vernon Neilly that makes being a music reviewer a very cool job. Vernon and G-Fire combine the lush sounds of silky smooth jazz wit...
According to a recent article I read by Gregg Easterbrook, The Real Truth About Money, “research has shown that there is no significant relationship b...
I have finally been weirded out with society’s secret obsession with height. Unfortunately, I too am guilty - very guilty. I guess I should start of...
Welcome to another edition of J^2. Although there are many juicy topics coming up, like Sammy Sosa’s departure from the worst team in baseball to the ...
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A big fat lump of money has been spent on a bunch of big fat lump of lumpy fat people in black ties and dresses that don't quite fit right.
Introduction Ms.Rhonda M. Lawson author of Cheating In The Next Room is determined to stay in publishing, She has been writing since she was a teenag...
It’s just so easy to get your personal information nowadays. But then, this doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything to protect yourself from this happ...
Every man needs a hobby. My wife says all men need to putter. I’ve never given much credence to the hobby as a necessity but I am not without my time-...
It should be understood that you and your partner will have different opinions on a few philosophical ideals, plus life goals and values. But what goa...
As a person who works in the retail industry, I await Christmas with a feeling of dread. Many sources state that businesses, especially small retail ...
The journey to travel best beyond the tourist gimmicks thrown out at you.
It might happen to you too. You get a call one fine day from a credit collection agency, demanding you to pay off all your dues amounting to huge buck...
Iran, a country in the Middle East that is located just between Iraq and Pakistan. Mountainous area with 69 million Muslims. And yet, independent of ...
Welcome to the Journal. Today we look at the 10 most fascinating people according to the little world of Barbara Walters and bring it down to the comm...
A balm for sores. A soothe for pains. To conquer or not to conquer, This matter called life, Is entirely up to you.
I have traveled as a hitch-hiker through Europe more than once. This summer I took up a hitch-hiking trip all by my own. What can you expect from this...
In Europe, we expect people to know the English language. In theory it is a very wide-spread language that people should understand. However, this isn...
The judicial process in the USA is starting to resemble a freak show. Bars and restaurants get sued for people who cant behave properly within the est...
This is just a philosophical approach to rationalize loneliness. There is no antidote, and this article doesn't provide it. Yet, after reading this, t...
This article is for writers and those who aspire to be writers, it goes beyond the usual import of the mechanics of writing. It covers the need and r...
When John Kerry made his concession speech, he kept reinforcing that he wanted to see unity return to the U.S. In light of the Editor's Comments from ...
If we stuff some garlic in their mouths, then maybe it'll shut these vampires up.
All they have been hearing and seeing on television is the disaster, war and famine. Occasionally, images of malnourished children appear as strange s...
I Love To Write Day was celebrated last year on November 15th when 12,007 schools all across the country held special writing activities and events.
Richard Wertime premiered his unreleased novel San Giovanni in suburban Philadelphia, on Oct. 20.
Known by different nomenclatures like bandit king, elephant poacher, sandalwood smuggler and the much recent Robinhood of India, Veerappanthe forest b...
Despite the strong beliefs and opinions of the majority, the simple truth remains that the job of parenting isn't for everyone.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and s...
How many times has this happened to you? Youre walking around in a drug store, and you hear a person describing their symptoms loudly to someone on a...
I know that The Cheers is an international magazine. I know that for most of the civilized world, baseball doesn't really matter. However, as my loy...
Those of us in The United States who remember Amy Fisher seem unable to forget her. Amy Fisher was seventeen when she was thrust into notoriety in 199...
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Many books have been written in support of the choice to have no children, but not nearly as many are positive of the only-child decision. The Done A...
Do you have something on your mind that you are not comfortable taling to your friends or family about... well, send it to Doc Kee. She will help you....
This is a non piece which was written to be a human interest story and it turned into an interesting human story. I don't know what category to put it...
In the city Americans proudly hold up as the birthplace of true freedom, the First Amendment took a week off during the Democratic National Convention...
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Ben Franklin,Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison must be turning over in their graves with the recent congressional debate over a Constitutional Amend...
Our democracy, as we know it, has long been tied to the political ideals of other countries. British Colonialism brought democracy to the country, a l...
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indee...
Just like the people of many other countries, South Africans are crazy about sports. While almost every sport is played to some degree here, the main ...
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It was almost time for the parade to start, and I was getting excited. I had been to Ireland three times before, but I had never managed to be there f...
For me, there are myriad reasons why I am a professional entertainer. Ive wanted to be one since I was 10 years old and I cant imagine doing anything ...
It was a dark and windy night when Jabu was visited by the political campaigners. The wind howled around the tin shack that he had built here on some ...
India now can boast of a scientist as President and an Economist/Teacher as the Prime Minister. Both are doctorates in their fields. With such able ha...
We explore the theory of evolution of society in financial terms, has society evolved since the advent of money, and has the world become more positiv...
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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are pass now. Yes, shes still gorgeous. Yes, hes still just too damn cute. Yes, theyre still together, even after all th...
With Dublin about to collapse under the weight of tourists (mostly of the oversized American variety) its worth re-examining some of the old stereotyp...
60 Minutes recently broadcast photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. Should Mr. Rumsfeld resign for these abuses?
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Often non-moslem people judge moslem people as a bad people, like terrorist, brutal, etc. The judgment influences their thinking about Islam itself th...
About six years ago I began to study tai chi. When I began, I had already been studying karate for several years, but my instructor encouraged me to a...
There have been a lot of really good movies made over the last several years. There are a lot of bad ones, too. And while I try to simply ignore the b...
We have all grown up in an age where exploration into dramatic new territory has become routine. We have had people travel into space to live for shor...
Recently, my wife lost her job. So begins another saga of unemployment.
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June 30th is not very far away and is Iraq ready for the handover of power to the interim goverment?
Recently, I sat down with some soldiers who have recently returned from Iraq. These men were not officers or high ranking non-commisioned officers (NC...
The ideal of thinness gives way to the idea that it is acceptable to be obese. As the numbers of overweight people grow, has the tide been turning on ...
Kids say the cutest things, dont they? Suddenly, out of nowhere, theyll come out with something that makes you say: Aaw, thats so cute! Or: Wow, who t...
Trust is the treasure of our daily lives. However, we do not understand its value. Why have we become so suspicious that we cannot enter into meaningf...
Im home. Finally, at 4:30 pm. I turned on the news to see that people fertile women, post-mensopausal women, teenagers, little girls, men, boys, babi...
Almost every household in developed countries owns a TV. People, like me, who have chosen not to buy one are considered weird by many others. Who is r...
The day was April 20th, five years ago. It was around 11:40 a.m., and I was in my car running an errand during my lunch break at work. The talk show...
In John Chapter 8, Christ is presented with a woman caught in adultery by the Pharisees and scribes. They presented her to Christ seeking His judgemen...
Have you even been to a totally different place - where everything was completely different from anything youve known? I had no experience with airpla...
A naked sculpture of her has recently been chosen to occupy the empty plinth in Londons Trafalgar Square- but who is Alison Lapper and what is all the...
Life just keeps getting more technical - computers, cell phones, space ships - but do we know what's going on or are these tools as well understood as...
On Monday, March 22nd 2004, Israel succeeded in killing Syekh Ahmad Yassin, the leader of Hamas Palestine, by air attack in Sabra, Gaza Line, after fa...
Skipping along the side of the road as other adults stare: yes, I am an adult now. I am a college student now. Yet I still play in the rain. I still p...
I have made a mistake. A big mistake. I never thought that I would even be in a position to make an error like this one. Now I understand why things l...
So, how does the week look for you? Will you become a hermit and find a cave in the woods? Win the lottery without entering? Become a world renowned w...
After 200 years or so of European settlement in the Land Down-Under many Australians assume that this country, in comparison with others, is one lacki...
The sudden interest in gay marriage in the U.S. is completely ridiculous and mostly diversionary in nature for President Bush. I understand that to th...
Recently, two U.S. Senators wrote the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Renquist, about a possible conflict of interest, and I was surprised...
Since Penny's sister become distant and sad, she regrets the years she has taken her sister for granted.
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Last week Ive got a phone call from a friend of ...
Most everybody gains some weight during the wintertime. Cmon youre allowed a touch. After all, you only have to look at your dog or cat to know that...
Have you ever wanted to become a star?
Have you ever wanted to become rich and famous?
Well a person these days has two options if they wish to be ...
In 1970, along with hundreds and thousands others I was born into a mixed race family. Despite my parents efforts to give me a liberal upbringing and ...
Apart from the Arab world and colleagues from many other countries, for reasons of religion, culture and tradition chose not to honour the day of Dec ...
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