23 January 2012
Nearly 40,000 new laws go into effect this year. Some will have less impact on American’s everyday lives, others will be very influential. Below you will find some of the most influential and interesting laws to go into effect in 2012. Minimum Wage The following 8 states will be raising their minimum wage in [...]
19 January 2012
Sometime before recorded history, mankind … some of mankind, anyway … learned that to trade with others was neater than killing to possess what another had. Thus, the barter system came into being. Swapping one’s goods for another’s goods was expedient, until the concept of money came into play. One of the earliest forms of [...]
12 January 2012
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” (President John F. Kennedy) Although John F. Kennedy’s reign as our nation’s 35th President was all too brief, he left behind a legacy of courage in action. This included his support of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., resulting [...]
10 January 2012
Placing a loved one into a nursing home is a tough decision, and you need to be aware of the abuses that take place in nursing homes and know how to choose a quality facility. Nursing Home Abuse As sad as it is, nursing home abuse occurs every day and much more often than [...]
06 January 2012
In the days before we’d inherited a mortgage, the hubby and I enjoyed traveling overseas. Our first foray, buoyed on the pages of Tom Fowler’s The Magus, was to Greece. Our arrival in the Athens airport was not auspicious; two weeks earlier, terrorists had targeted that airport. Too late to secure a refund, we assumed [...]
05 January 2012
When humans began to walk upright, they relied upon the five senses endowed by The Creator to survive in a harsh environment. Along with the organic senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste, God in His infinite wisdom included an innate sense of awareness. This “sixth sense” existed to clue early man into the [...]
03 January 2012
My little niece, now 22 years old, has always run to extremes. In her academic career, she’s consistently ranked among the top 5% of her class, even in Physics, her “bear” subject. Jaimie* even earned a partial scholarship to Columbia University, to pursue her Master’s degree, but in typical Jaimie fashion, chose a much smaller, [...]
31 December 2011
As the year 2011 comes to a close, the world teeters on the precipice of major changes. 2011 witnessed the virtual collapse of the European Union and its currency, the Arab Spring, America’s debt crisis and ongoing economic woes, and a host of meteorological, climatic, and geological calamities – even in areas of the world [...]
28 December 2011
Thirty-eight Books of the Bible make reference to psychic ability as a gift from the Holy Spirit. And yet, many Christians, in particular, pooh-pooh clairvoyance as the subterfuge of demons. Perhaps that is why they are more open to accepting signs or omens from forces they attribute as external, such as angels. For the uninitiated, [...]
27 December 2011
Frequently dubbed the sport of Kings, horse racing provides the origin of the phrase “dark horse,” an unknown horse on which handicappers have difficulty in establishing betting odds. Later, the term was broadened to apply to any unexpected winner. In American politics, the term was first applied to James Polk who, in 1844, wrested the [...]
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