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Working Together: The Cost of a Fear-less World
COLUMN: We are at the threshold of a great evolutionary and cultural change, and this journey will take us to a place we have never been before. Some are saying that the world, as we know it, will end forever. Maybe so, but not in the way one thinks. Since the beginning of time we have heard prophetic messages about world destruction, along with an array of doom and gloom.
The Huckster – When such a flim-flam man runs for president, the whole country should be alarmed
OPINION: In literature and the movies, there is a romantic haze surrounding the silver-tongued con man but the reality is grittier: the bilker filches money from the innocent or unwary. When such a flim-flam man runs for president, the whole country should be alarmed. Meet Mike Huckster.
Little Marco Rubio Gets Advice from America’s Teachers
OPINION (by John Scott G): Professional know-nothing Marco Rubio is attractive to people of impaired cognitive reasoning but everyone else recognizes he is unfit for public office. In a surprising turn of events, teachers across America offer helpful advice on behalf of his joke candidacy for president.
Opinion: Homeschooling: Is it Right for Your Kids?
OPINION: Let's say you are a moron and a member of the treason party. Oh I'm sorry, let me make that easier to understand: Let's say you are a republican. And let's say you want to indoctrinate your progeny in private. Oops, sorry again, I mean: Let's say you want to home school your kids. Are you ready for the challenge?
Book Review: 'Drift' by Rachel Maddow
eNewsChannels COLUMN: Wisdom and wit make a devastating combination, which is why The Rachel Maddow Show is steadily charming its way into the hearts...
Secret Sex – A Book Alive Online: Chapter 45 – Strife of the Party
eNewsChannels BOOK SERIAL: "Secret Sex, A Book Alive Online," written and lived by John Scott G: Chapter 45 - "Strife of the Party."
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Mt. Ashland Oregon Welcomes Major Snowstorm after ‘First Snows Ceremony’ to end drought
OPINION: Mt. Ashland Oregon welcomed the biggest storm on the West Coast in five years after praying at their 'First Snows Mountain Blessing' ceremony on November 23, 2014, for snow to help end the Pacific Coast drought. Two weeks later, a winter storm drenched the Pacific Coast and covered Mt. Ashland with a beautiful bright blanket of powder, as shown below.
How 'The People' Can Beat Iranian-American Peace Drums
ARTICLE: In 1977, fellow Olympic skier Billy Kidd and I had an adventure of a lifetime, skiing with Iranian Queen Farah Diba Pahlavi in their fresh "Persian Powder." It was to promote skiing and goodwill with Iran, made possible by two visionary friends, the popular TV host Barry ZeVan and Iran’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ardeshir Zahedi.
Ideas on Ice: Home School Theme Park
COLUMN: Like Humpty Dumpty, the morality of Western World seems always about to drop off the wall and shatter into a million pieces. Scott G gathers some information about a fiction-based museum and asks an eyebrow-raising question about religious tax exemptions.
Ideas on Ice: Grief and the Bottom Line
COLUMN: Scott G talks with the OTHER Dr. Kevorkian and learns a few things about death, grieving and the loss of productivity due to death and grieving. Meet Kriss Kevorkian, former deputy coroner and current Co-Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Bioethics Committee.