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With all the uproar over the attempt to take choice away from the individual any control over healthcare decisions, where else is the nanny state taking away ii individual controls?  These are just some current perspectives about how far we have gone the road to group think.

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• What are they thinking? [/caption] I don't buy lottery tickets. I don't think about buying lottery tickets. I don't follow how big the jackpot is. I don't understand the...
• Negativity [/caption] Are you a receiver or a generator of negativity? Recent events have turned me introspective and suspicious of others. In such a state, it...

• How to Handle Corporate Blog Comments One of the biggest issues in the corporate blogging world is whether or not you should allow readers to comment on your blog posts. There...
• The problem with taking the Bible literally- a letter to Dr. Laura In looking around the internet for some interesting stuff, I came across this letter written to Dr. Laura about how the Bible's laws and how...

As we see our traditions and freedoms challenged, mini-factories Mini-factories are suggested as a solution to the institutionalization of our society.  The concept has been around for a while.  Alvin Toffler and John Naismith predicted them in the ancient 80’s but didn’t use the term. They said that more and more individuals would take control of their lives and develop alternative ways of getting things done, bypassing the big, impersonal institutions.  The idea was revolutionary at the time.  Who back then would ever believe that small would be better than large and that it would be possible to create superior products and services without huge resources and staff?

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• Ballast [/caption] "I am just ballast.” I made that remark casually to someone admiring my wife's photographs last Saturday. My wife takes pictures of kids playing...
• Thought for the day. From Robert Heinlein: Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now...

• Midweek Roundup: Davy Crockett Edition "We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress...
• Text of President Obama's State of the Union Address [/caption] Remarks of President Barack Obama The State of the Union Wednesday, January 27, 2009 Washington, DC Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress,...