February 13, 2006

Looking For Health - Naturally
With Susan Callaway, RN

Dear Readers,
I found this website just a week ago and it has changed my whole life profoundly! I've been a nurse for nearly 20 years, and this is the healing touch I've been yearning for. This technique is simple, free, and has no dangerous side effects. Anyone can use it for themselves within minutes, and can help others in a very short time! I place EFT right after prayer as a cornerstone in any healing, caring ministry or profession. You don't have a thing to lose by trying this, but you may have everything to gain. We are each responsible for ourselves and our health. Here is a wonderful opportunity to exercise that in ways that defy anything we've been led to reasonably expect. Seize the day!

MD Uses Tapping Technique to Treat Chronic Illness When Conventional Treatment Fails

Most patients who visit urologists recite their symptoms, undergo lab tests, and receive a prescription or two. Those visiting Los Angeles urologist Eric Robins, MD, often get something extra – a lesson in tapping key acupuncture points. To their surprise, this simple addition to conventional therapy clears up recurring infections, chronic pain, and other symptoms. The procedure is called Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT, and Dr. Robins says it strengthens his patients’ immune systems, improves their overall health, and reduces stress and anxiety. (Read the rest here)

The Defense Against Offense
By Lady Liberty

I've complained more than once about the government's infringement of free speech. In fairness, there's plenty there to complain about! From so-called Campaign Finance Reform to the PATRIOT Act; from domestic surveillance to free speech zones, the First Amendment is under active attack from the powers that be. But the truth is that free speech is also endangered by a far more insidious source: us.

Ask almost anybody, and support for free speech is relatively strong (though only an appalling one out five could name something other than free speech covered by the First Amendment - which may explain why only about a quarter thought public schools did a good job educating people on the First Amendment). Yet that support apparently doesn't extend any further than the person's own sensibilities go which really isn't freedom at all. (Read the rest here)

More Defense Dollars, Less Security
By Ivan Eland

The Bush administration’s newly released Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), outlining its defense strategy, forces, and weapons programs, and its accompanying defense budget demonstrate that throwing money at national defense won’t make Americans safer at home. This bloated defense budget, already more than $500 billion per year (including the expenses for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), will be hiked by 7 percent. Yet most of that budget will not be spent on “defense,” which is only a small part of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) budget. Instead, most of the money will be spent on offensively-oriented U.S. forces and enhance their ability to rapidly conduct imperial forays in far-flung corners of the world, including the Middle East. Since retaliation for such adventures is the reason terrorist groups strike U.S. targets, Americans can expect more such attacks at home and abroad. Even the new counterterrorism strategy of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff admits that ill-conceived military operations could swell the ranks of terrorists. (Read the rest here)

Bush Speaks Nonsense on Energy
by Sheldon Richman

Despite the bravado in his State of the Union address, President Bush actually admitted that his efforts in the Middle East are destined to fail. Here's what he said: "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world." He then unveiled billions of dollars in new subsidies to find an alternative to oil.

What's going on here? Haven't we been told repeatedly that Bush's policy in the Middle East is going to bring freedom, democracy, and stability to the long-suffering oil states of the region? Why the subtle confession that the policy will fail? (Read the rest here)

Who's Afraid Of Carol Gilligan?
By Carey Roberts

Most feminists will come right out and tell you they pretty much despise men. But some feminists, like the leechers and blood-letters of yore, make the claim that yet another spoonful of feminism will actually make boys and men feel better. Such is the case of psychologist Carol Gilligan, whose nostrums were recently featured in Newsweek magazine as the cure-all for the Boy Crisis.

For years, the mainstream media has been running cover for Dr. Gilligan, hoping no one would find out the truth. So exactly who is Carol Gilligan, and what is her agenda? (Read the rest here)

Are We Witnessing The Rise Of The Fourth Reich?
By Chuck Baldwin

Without a doubt, comparisons to Hitler have been overdone. It seems that when a writer disagrees with the policies of a sitting president, be he Republican or Democrat, there exists a ubiquitous temptation to compare him with the ignoble German leader. Some will no doubt charge this author with having succumbed to this temptation. Perhaps I have.

However, as a student of both the Bible and history, I believe we in America are living in times that are eerily reminiscent of the days leading up to the rise of the Third Reich. If after reviewing this thesis, the reader wants to dismiss its conclusions as insipid and irrelevant, he or she is certainly free to do so. (Read the rest here)

Will J.A.I.L. Lead To Anarchy?
To the contrary, J.A.I.L. will restore our Constitutional Government!
By Barbie, National J.A.I.L.

Another frivolous argument posed by opponents to Amendment E, the Judicial Accountability Amendment on this year's ballot in South Dakota, is that the Amendment will throw the system into anarchy. To quote Mr. Chet Brokaw of the Associated Press in the January 20th edition of the Aberdeen American Press: "Lawyers opposing the proposed amendment have said it would undermine the independence of South Dakota judges and would plunge the court system into anarchy."

"Anarchy" applies to society, to the People --not to a court system which is intended to be the core of the judicial branch of government. "Anarchy" is defined in Black's Law Dictionary, Rev.4th Ed. at page 110: "Absence of government; state of society where there is no law or supreme power; lawlessness or political disorder; destructive of and confusion in government." (Read the rest here) (With Editor's note)

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