For the benefit of that majority of folk who find themselves embroiled in debates as to the absurdity of the mantic arts, let me offer this explanation, and then the fun. All mantic arts, i.e. those disciplines that carry “mancy” at the end of their names — cartomancy (tarot cards), oneiromancy (dream interpretation), necromancy (seances, communication with the dead), bibliomancy (opening a book at random, and, in the extreme version of Biblical bibliomancy, opening the Bible at random), etcetera....

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While all of us, or perhaps almost all of us, are grateful for the service of our soldiers, Marines, sailors, Air Force and Coast Guard we tend to forget that unlike other wars, women are on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan. No one will officially admit this reality. Yet it exists. They come home like any other soldier either with their shield or on it. The number of female KIA is very small. Yet we have already...

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This is the title of today’s column by Paul Krugman. I can only hope that many in the coming Obama Administration read it and take it to heart. In the article Krugman points out the many successful parts of the New Deal but also the one glaring misstep: The Great Depression itself. It’s cause:But Barack Obama should learn from F.D.R.’s failures as well as from his achievements: the truth is that the New Deal wasn’t as successful in the...

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This is just too funny and very likely all to accurate. Ah….don’t ya just wish…..

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