Posts made in June, 2009

Senate to Consider Hate Crimes Legislation

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to consider hate crimes legislation this week. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear the “Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to testify in support of it. The legislation is supposed to offer greater protections to lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-gendered crime victims. But critics...

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The Seven “Ups”

Wake up. Life’s not a dress rehearsal. Live each day as though you won’t be around tomorrow – for you might not be. Dress up. When you get up each morning don?t forget to put on a good attitude; it’ll determine the rest of your day! Life’s like a piano; everything depends on how you play it. Only 10% is about what happens to you; the other 90% is about how you...

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Something to think about!!!

At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior. “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will...

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