Since our world is becoming smaller with ever more increasing contact between peoples of the world, it is important to remember that we are all human, we all breathe the same air, we all love our children, and we all are mortal.  As Jimmy Carter said in his recent acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace […]

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As we mark the six anniversary of the 9/11 attack, it is time for Americans to face the real lessons of that horrible morning. Until we dispel the myths which the Bush administration and a compliant media have been feeding us, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes and suffer similar consequences.
Lesson 1: They […]

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As I have said many times in the past, regular people should not be afeared about investing in the markets, but don’t even think that you have the potential to invest wisely in the stock market, except through buying and holding.  While Billions of Dollars were made yesterday between 3PM and 4PM, how many regular people […]

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Today I happened upon a copy of the New York Daily News, a paper I rarely read.  Yet as per the mysterious world in which we live where things have a purpose, in my reading of the paper on this day, I had a complete identification with a story written by famed sportswriter Mike Lupica.  […]

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Between 1840 and 1980 every President elected in the score year (a year divided by 20) has died in office.  Some may say Ronald Reagan didn’t die, but he was a  victim of an assasination attempt which he survived.  Maybe he died but he forgot.  Maybe that was uncalled for humor.  But now we have […]

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There are two ways, — the natural and the supernatural.
One way is to live for the world we are in, to develop the
brain by study and investigation, to take, by invention, advantage
of the forces of nature, to the end that we may have good houses,
raiment and food, to the end that the hunger of the […]

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We have all lived long enough to have seen records made and broken. But I cannot recall a day when three historic moments all happened at the same time. First and foremost is Barry Bond hitting Home Run 755.

While there were many fans opining that it is not a real record, I have […]

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The I35-W collapse was the worst catastrophe that has ever befallen the Twin Cites. “Things like that just don’t happen here” is a familiar sentiment. Everyone from this area has traveled over that bridge hundreds or thousands of times, it’s right by downtown and the University of Minnesota. Our hearts go out to […]

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Minneapolis, Mn July 30, 2007 World Future Society members were invited to assist in the launch of the Blog site so that a community of interest can start to discuss and debate subject matters across the universe of ideas. Adam Cohen and I created this website for this event and will continue […]

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