The Memory Secret | The Saturday Evening Post

I was a grind. That was the word for it back in the day: the kid who sweated the details, who made flashcards. A striver, a grade-hog, a worker bee — that kid — and I can see him clearly now, almost 40 years later, bent over a textbook, squinting in the glow of a …

Surprising Secrets of ‘Super-Agers’ « WebMD Interviews

Everything we are told about health always seems to be turned on its head sooner or later... My advice, moderation, a little of this and a little of that .... Claudia Kawas, MD, and her colleagues at University of California, Irvine, have studied the oldest of the old for more than a decade. The 90+ …

The Daily Bell – The Proofiness of the Politically Correct Rape

Never let facts get in the way of your agenda... Rape, any rape is wrong and bad, and one is one to many... But please don't fake the data... A legion of the politically correct who make a living from the alleged oppression of women were gleeful and almost goofy with proofiness this week. The …

Harvard-Smithsonian Physicist: Computer Models Used by U.N. Overstate Global Warming | CNS News

So goes the liberal battle cry... If it ain't true, fake it! (CNSNews.com) – A scholarly paper explaining why predictions made by climate computer models used by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tend to exaggerate global warming has ignited a political firestorm. Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, a solar physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian …

Study: Vaccinated Children Have 2 to 5 Times More Diseases and Disorders Than Unvaccinated Children

I am not saying you should or shouldn't vaccinate your child... But I am saying, we, as a nation, need to rethink our vaccination policies. A German study released in September 2011 of about 8000 UNVACCINATED children, newborn to 19 years, show vaccinated children have at least 2 to 5 times more diseases and disorders than …

Could Boys Town work today? And other thoughts on Charity and Social Justice.

Cover of Boys Town ‎"What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?" -- Walter Williams Williams …

We are called too knowledge

This past weekend I spent my time reading and listing to Catholic radio. Of course I cleaned the house, did my wash and other such tasks, but I spent a lot of time sitting and reading. It was nice, I have not had a lot of time to do that, or should I say I …

God Speaks to me again

Image via Wikipedia As I mentioned a few blogs ago, I was listening to Catholic talks on CD’s in my car on a long drive for work. The topics were varied but they all seemed to carry the same message for me, on of needing to forgive. I found that fact interesting, that I chose …

Jesus as a tag line…

Each day we all need to make personal choices regarding how we choose to live out our faith. We choose how we are going to react to our kids in the morning or how we are going to respond to the driver who just cut us off on our way to work. We are bombarded …

Burn Baby Burn!

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. -- Mother Teresa Simple logic, add oil to keep the flame. Oil is the food that feeds the fire. Same basic principle for an electric light, we must have electrical current for a light bulb to glow. The electricity is the fuel …