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Do we pay the piper or keep on dancing?

A side-effect of this is that many of our citizens have been stripped of their pride as well.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - We are weeks away from entering a Presidential election year and as you might expect, the current administration is grabbing at economic flotsam like a drowning man.

Anything that could remotely be considered a positive is escalated to the stature of being a miraculous economy saving result of the wise decisions made by the current administration while all negative news is swept under the rug, rationalized away, or blamed on the previous administration.

Arsenic in Apple Juice and the Sky is Falling

Yes, arsenic in apple juice is a problem, but not so much as the TV doctors would have you believe. A real Toxicoligist dismisses the absurdity.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - A couple of TV doctors started bleating about the DANGER of arsenic and apple juice as if it were a new hazard.

I don't know if my experience as a toxicologist will calm the waters or not, but I am going to try anyway.

Former U.S. Marine D`Manti Shocks Audience with Scorching-Hot Performance

(WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.) - Never afraid to push the envelope, Pop star D’Manti isn't called “The Queen of the Night” for nothing. Her debut blew audience away.

Crystal Mountain Snowboarding- a Great Father and Son Experience

No stress, except for trying to keep up with the little guy who just wants to conquer the world. Like father, like son!

(CRYSTAL MOUNTAINS, Wash.) - I have been a surfer for over 42 years and my son Evan who is now 11, never caught on to the one love of my life. Instead, he chose to be a skater dude and he is a pretty good one at that.

However, we moved to Washington from California a little over a year ago and his skating time has been declining due to poor weather and logistics of indoor parks.

Occupy Eureka Arrests Might be Most Shocking and Flagrant in California so far

Occupy Eureka protestors arrested.

(EUREKA, Calif.) - It might possibly be the most boldface example of overrunning people's civil rights yet by Humboldt county government and their enforcement agencies.

More than 20 Eureka police, CHP and county deputies descended upon the protest, rounding up, arresting and handcuffing 15 people.

Is the American Psychiatric Association in Bed with Big Pharma?

Do we really need more mental disorder diagnoses creating the need for more drugs in a society that some would say is already over-medicated?

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association.

The DSM provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders, which is used in the United States and to some extent internationally, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers.

Child`s Remains and Other Bones Identified at Canada`s Oldest Indian Residential School in Brantford, Ontario

A Statement from the Kanien'keha':ka Nation of the Grand River

(BRANTFORD, Ontario) - Archaeological surveys and test digs authorized by we, elders of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, have been conducted at the former Mohawk Institute Indian residential school since October 1.

This past week, while on the grounds of the school, our researchers along with Kevin Annett -Rawennatshani, who acts with our approval, have unearthed what has been described as human remains.

The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?

Netanyahu blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the demands for change in the Arab world.

(LONDON) - Israeli democracy fades to black (the black of the blank screen at the end of a film). That was the headline over a recent article by Lawrence Davidson, an American professor of Middle East history.

He says the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel is coming full circle with PM Netanyahu’s Likudniks & settlers targeting the rights of Jews.

Occupy Tahrir Square vs. Occupy America

“... make no mistake, the thousands in Tahrir square will not lose hope nor can they afford to.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Egypt, a land embedded in ancient history with an old legacy of oppression and abuse of power, its people are awakening and refusing to yield to any kind of tyranny or autocracy be it of civilian or military authority.

But obviously somebody, and that somebody is unfortunately in command right now, doesn’t seem to get this message.

The foreskin is a lip, and thus an organ; its ablation is a mutilation

The reason is simple: the foreskin is taboo, like autosexuality that is designated by a word with reproachful connotations.

(PARIS, France) - Abstract – Only mentioning the lips of the mouth and the vulva, anatomy textbooks do not generalize the notion of lip to all the organs that have a similar structure and function.

Among these, the foreskin moreover includes an erogeneity and an ability to retract that make it the specific organ for masculine autosexuality.