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The Health Of America Starts On The Farm

  Mark Bittman makes the point in his column at the New York Times today, that the biggest killer of Americans isn’t guns but industrial agriculture. A point I have

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I Received A Christmas Blessing…I Am Passing It On to You…

Now that we have baked our cookies and trimmed our trees,now that we have wrapped our gifts and planned our dinners,now that we have hung stockings, sent greetings and set

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Is It Really Warmer?

You tell me… November 2012 was the globe’s 5th warmest November on record, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Monday. NASA rated November 2012

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Do You Know What Corporate America Is Planning For?

Every news story about the coming “fiscal cliff” talks about what the “real” problem is. The consensus being, that American companies aren’t making decisions on employment or investment because they don’t know what

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ACA… What Does It Do?

Now that the Supreme Court has declared the ACA to be constitutional I find most people still don’t know what is in the law… I don’t really know. My wife

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Healthcare in Texas…Don’t Be Poor

I always knew that red state Texas was stingy. Governor Perry has spent most of his decade in office turning down federal money to help the poor. But this paragraph

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Yes… It Matters

Yes it does… Mitt Romney may have joked yesterday that the White House was “not sleeping real well” last night. But a lot of people tonight and in the future

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Talking About Climate

My wife and I were having a conversation about the weather/climate of our youth. What brought the conversation up was the fact that I was mowing grass in our yard

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