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A Fragile World Without Peace (Part One) There is an old saying that countries don't really have friends or allies, they have 'mutual interests'. This is supposed to be a way of saying countries such as the United States and, say, Canada, would never go to war. The mutual interest here... ( added 12 hours 42 minutes ago.)

You're Still Practicing Law? Aren't You Good Yet? Another great day in America and as I was shopping the other day at the supermarket and saw all of those tabloids at the checkout counter, I came to a realization. It hit me suddenly and squarely in the middle of my middling brain, which means I... ( added 4 days 8 hours ago.)

Forget The Hungry: Feed The Corruption Another beautiful day in America and yet around the world in Africa things are not as they could be. Or perhaps they are exactly as they are supposed to be. Earlier today, Ethiopia asked for over 150 thousand tons of emergency food to help... ( added 16 days 18 hours ago.)

I Am On Earth Another beautiful day in America and I find myself at work listening to a woman explain why one of the trees in our parking lot is dying. "It needs water. Lots more water," she says to me, pointing to the tree from inside the store. "It... ( added 30 days 8 hours ago.)

Enough Of Leftovers On my way home last night I saw this bumper sticker: If You Aren't Outraged, You Haven't Been Paying Attention Apparently, this bumper sticker is a leftover from the Bush administration. It must be, since I have yet to see a bumper... ( added 32 days 19 hours ago.)

Now That's A Protest We still hear about tea parties, tax parties, and the like as being so . . . anti-American, it's hard to grasp the fact there are other protests going on these days which are slipping through the cracks. It's hard to grasp because unlike the tea... ( added 39 days 19 hours ago.)

Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just The Pharmacist! Another beautiful day in America and everyone is complaining about health care, it seems. Or lack of health care reform. Many have written about it here on Searchwarp, myself included, and yet there still seems to be a sharp divide about what to... ( added 51 days 14 hours ago.)

It's Free: Trust Me Imagine this analogy: I have a shower running full-blast and all of this water is running down the drain. I tell you I will be glad to water your lawn, and I can do it without adding any more water down the drain or taking in any more... ( added 58 days 16 hours ago.)

Where Are You Now? Do you remember? A wave of optimism and hope, a promise of hope and change, and a change of tone is what swept Mr. Obama into office last November. It was a new era, an historic time to be alive and to be an American. You could not... ( added 61 days 19 hours ago.)

What Is Your Pledge? The other day I had the television on for the mongrels (I was gettting ready for work) and a public service announcement came on. It had all of these celebrities taking a pledge to serve their president and their country. My first thought was how... ( added 64 days 17 hours ago.)

You Can't Escape These days it seems you cannot escape politics. I would love to escape politics for at least one day, and yet try as I did, I couldn't. No matter where you turn you hear of healthcare, cash for clunkers, Lockerbie terrorists going home (it's... ( added 76 days 17 hours ago.)

What Cash For Clunkers? Everyone these days seems to be so worried about healthcare they seem to have let the Cash For Clunkers program go by the wayside. The government too, it seems, has forgotten about it. Cash For Clunkers was to offer rebates of $4500 on... ( added 79 days 19 hours ago.)

"I'm Eating A Sandwich" is Twitter Winner! Another beautiful day in American and here in Texas it is a cool 101 degrees. I know, most of you are thinking it must be a cold front: I too wonder where summer went. A rare day off and reading the news I come to find the Twitter Revolution... ( added 82 days 11 hours ago.)

Government Health Care In A Nutshell Imagine this: A man gets a phone call from his doctor. "Geez, I've been trying to get hold of you," the doctor says. "Here I am," the man says. "What's up?" "I have bad news and I have really bad news." "Okay," the man says. "Fire... ( added 92 days 21 hours ago.)

It Depends . . . Or Does It? This is a test . . . A well-dressed man walks into a bar and approaches a well-dressed married woman. He says this: "WIll you spend the night with me for three million dollars?" (Many of you are probably thinking what you would do in... ( added 95 days 8 hours ago.)

The Good, The Bad, and the Moronic Another great day in America as we realize summer is almost over. Of course, here in Texas the temperature is 'only' supposed to be 101, which means Fall must surely be right around the corner. I wait, and my tired air conditioner waits, with... ( added 103 days 16 hours ago.)

How To Get Things Done Once And For All Political Corruption are words that flow so well together, it's hard to imagine the word 'Political' without the 'Corruption'. Sure, we laugh and joke all of the time about this or that politician doing this or that, and yet in the end we look... ( added 109 days 7 hours ago.)

One Small Leap I remember 1969 like it was forty years ago. The Americans, those wild and brave Americans, landed two men on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took turns exiting the relative safety of their capsule to step foot on another world, and... ( added 110 days 19 hours ago.)

Facts? What Facts? Another record day here in Texas as the temperature is 'only' scheduled to hit 105. That's good news since I thought it would be really hot. It would be fine without the humidity, yet here in Texas we have a saying about this weather: "kind of... ( added 116 days 15 hours ago.)

Why Are We So Angry These Days? Another blistering day here in Texas and yet still a great day in America, which isn't larger than Texas in spite of what many Texans think. We as a country just celebrated our 233rd birthday and now we're all back at work. And boy, do we work... ( added 122 days 9 hours ago.)

The One And Only America A group of men who didn't know the impact they would have on a world separated by ideology and vast oceans and lands gathered together over two hundred years ago and declared in print one simple concept: Enough is enough. They weren't... ( added 126 days 20 hours ago.)

Bait And Switch: Cap And Tax You would think I would be ecstatic on anything that can stop global warming. Why? Because we are having record-setting days here in Texas: 104 yesterday, probably 106 today. Geez, I hope we get this global warming under control so the summers... ( added 133 days 18 hours ago.)

Now That Would Be News Another hot and blistering day in Austin and I am grateful for the news coverage of the protests in Iran. Grateful perhaps is not the right word to use when people are dying (or are killed , to be more precise), yet any people yearning for freedom... ( added 136 days 19 hours ago.)

The Warning (Conclusion) I can truthfully tell you the young man never went to another to have his music published. Of course, he did not believe his music was not good. If anything went through his head as he left the office that day it was that his music was good... ( added 141 days 7 hours ago.)

The Warning (Part Two) I know I should not start a story with a story, but it is important for you, who are reading these words, to know what I am leading up to. As I sit here I think of all of the millions of people in this world and how they seem to live in a way... ( added 142 days 9 hours ago.)