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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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• You are the one you are waiting for. Looking back on my life, I find that much of the time I was waiting for something to happen.  It might be a person. It...
• 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...

• 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,...
• Is Recent Legalization Of Gay Marriage Responsible For Rise In Anti-gay Hate Crimes? Hans Klasson, June 20, 2009 News Even though hate crimes are rarely debated, the hate speech theory is controversial, as criminalizing communication can be seen...

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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• What I'm Reading [/caption] I picked this up at a Leadership Conference this weekend and started reading on the plane home.  I was thinking that it would be...
• 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...

• 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,...
• Kansas Repeals Abstinence Only Programs From Schools. And common sense prevails. We all remember being teenagers; preaching abstinence does not work! It is not sex education, it is a waste of time....