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How to Talk to a Liberal

The title might have been "How to Talk WITH a Liberal. " but that might be difficult just now.

Clearly, people in general have different ways of looking at things. 

Recently I heard a TED-X talk about political liberals and conservatives and how they talk past one another without hearing what is being said to them. The premise of the talk was that we have to use certain language to make ourselves understood, or our words will fall on deaf ears.

According to this speaker, when a…

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Taking Back our Country

Taking Back our Country

This book, Dirty Wars, sat on my shelf for a few months before I decided to read it partly because it is almost two inches thick and a bit intimidating.  But since I will soon be hearing the author speak at the Chicago area’s North Shore Peace Initiative fund raiser, I thought it might be helpful to have read the book first.

I was blown away by the information in this book. Really.  As Americans,…

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HERE is the Answer. Follow me.

HERE is the Answer. Follow me.

The pervasiveness of attempts at mind control is so everywhere present in today’s world that we almost take it for granted.  It has become a part of who we are as human beings to convince others to believe as we do, to buy into our opinions, and to spend money for the products that we want to sell, whether or not it is for our own well being.

While researching my next story about cults for the Go…

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Music Such as Never Heard Before!

Music Such as Never Heard Before!

Disclaimer: I know little about music, rarely listen to it, even in the car, (I like silence) but am just beginning to learn jazz piano simply because I do like the sound of that.  I’m currently seventy-eight years old being taught by a former Nothwestern University professor of classical music who just turned eight-six. We’re making progress.

Yet when I was offered two free tickets to the…

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