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Embarrassing Post-Election Reactions

It is okay for people to disagree with the President on policy issues, but it is not okay for people to keep trying to discredit the man as a legitimate American.

(TAMPA, FL) - Thankfully the election of 2012 is finally over. Not only did President Obama win the popular vote, but he also won the Electoral College by a significant margin.

To the surprise of the online conspiracy theorists living in fantasyland, the earth did not fall off its axis...

The Issue of Censorship in PDX

Institutional limitations and professional obligations demand unbiased and impartial reporting.

(PORTLAND, OR) - For me, censorship has never been an issue of any real importance. In my time as a writer, it has never effected me personally.

I'd never experienced the sting of being told I couldn't write about a particular topic or that I wouldn't be published, based on a topic I had chosen to explore and develop.

What if the Mayans are Right?

Will everything just go “bang?” Will death hurt? Will it be fast?

(PORTLAND, OR) - What will you do if the Mayans are right? What if the world really ends on December 20th, 2012? Will you decide not to make your car payment?

Will you decide not to make your house or apartment rental payment?

Ron Paul`s Farewell Message to America: Embrace Liberty or Face Self-Destruction

Parting ways with a man who many saw as a ray of hope.

(TASMANIA, Aust) - My friends, This is, without doubt a profoundly important speech - one that at least every American citizen should read, and try their best to understand.

Question: how many Americans even know that Ron Paul made this speech, and that he has left the political stage?

Cold War Relics

“ by the Truman Library’s willingness to consider that president’s decisions at the dawn of the Cold War as possibly mistaken. Maybe Henry Wallace was right after all!” - Harvey Klehr

(PORTLAND, OR) - What started as a $100M “Victims of Communism Museum,”authorized by Congress in 1993 fizzled out into a ten-foot-high replica of the Goddess of Democracy from Tienanmen [sic] Square on a traffic island in Washington, D.C.

The “The Whittaker Chambers National Historic Landmark” in Westminster, Maryland is so obscure that even the county visitor center doesn’t know where it is.

AccuWeather Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Global Weather Media Company -- Trusted for Superior Accuracy -- Looks Ahead to Next 50 Years.

(STATE COLLEGE,, PA Accuweathter.com) - AccuWeather, Inc. marks 50 years of operation today by launching a year-long recognition of the company’s 50th anniversary through a series of events, as well as retrospective stories and videos on AccuWeather.com.

The group was founded in 1962 by Dr. Joel N. Myers...

New Science Discoveries

I have been explaining and demonstrating since 1978, how phenomena are created by wavelengths of electromagnetic energy stimulating atoms of gases to a glowing state of excitement.

(SAN DIEGO) - Emerging reports substantiate what I wrote a few months ago; that misnomers are preventing the solution of many mysteries.

One states “A new ScienceCast video takes viewers on a trip to the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum, where mysterious objects are puzzling astronomers.”

Follow the Ho Chi Minh Trail...

Incredible photo essay on a famous route in Vietnam.

(WASHINGTON DC) - “You’ve got to ride a dirt bike like you’ve stolen it,” as we accelerated through a particularly gnarly section, the wheels weaving between rocks, mud spraying up from the bike in all directions.

All around us was deep Southeast Asian jungle, with no form of civilization for miles. If anything happened to us out here [...]

Reflections on the Birthday of Marines by One of Its Past Members

One short enlistment in the Marines left a large, lasting impression, to say the very least.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - I look at my clock, it is 10:44, that was my platoon in basic training or boot camp as most people know it, in the United States Marines.

I had been 18 for two months when I enlisted for three years, people were shocked, I'm still in shock. Looks like I'm writing this one after all. On this birthday of the Marine Corps, I look back at my personal connection to the Corps which began in 1981 on those yellow footprints in San Diego when there was no war.

The Second Come-on... How Jesus Came To Guanajuato

And even madmen manage to convey
Unwelcome truths in lonely gibberish.
- W. H. Auden

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Mexican history is complicated for a gringo, but understandable once you realize that it's more religiously straitjacketed than American history and almost as hilarious as Canadian history.

But it's necessary to decipher the past, at least in the State of Guanajuato...