Do you think that the death penalty is effective at deterring crime? Check out this Article from Freakonomic’s writer Justin Wolfers How the Supreme Court Misread My Research: Empirics and the Death Penalty It seems to me that deterring crime or any other destructive behavior is a matter of by passing the Ego and dealing [...]
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I have read Howard Zinn’s wonderful work People’s History of the United States its a different and I think open approach to American history, one that I never learned in School or College. Check this out Pretty interesting huh? before you label me (for putting this on my Blog) or Howard Zinn a leftist or [...]
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As we think about the War in Iraq, and question whether we should be there or not, or the real reasons behind even going there in the first place. Let’s not forget that the war is a very personal one for those families of the Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen that are there, [...]
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Most of us live pretty busy lives, often times not pausing or giving space to the wonder that is our lives, our God breathed divinity and oneness with each other and the universe as a whole. I know these truths can be overshadowed sometimes when we are focusing on the details of our lives, from [...]
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Hey Guys, I saw this in Byron Katie’s June News letter and it so blessed that I wanted to share it with you all Bryon Katie writes: A while back a friend sent me the following quote, from the Indian Buddhist teacher Aryadeva. He wrote this almost 1900 years ago: “To question that things might [...]
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I’m not a big fan of impeaching sitting elected officials just because I don’t agree with them or their politics especially a sitting President. However, it does appear that our current President has tainted his presidency and violated the public trust. Here is what is being said: [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nSA472_nKM] and here are the Articles of Impeachment [...]
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Here is a great New Yorker article by reporter at large Lawrence Wright about radical Islamists, it highlights what people believe God wants. It is in reality, I think, more about the power of belief. Our beliefs about what God wants forms how and what we project into our world, it creates our experience and [...]
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In the Early 90s one of our greatest statesmen and General, Collin Powell, developed a doctrine that I believe, if insisuted when considering going to war in Iraq or Afghanistan, would have had produced different outcomes. Here is a summary of the Doctrine from Wikkipedia • Interested in contributing to Wikipedia? • The “Powell Doctrine“, [...]
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