What is our purpose in life?  God wants us to have a wonderful life on earth, but an integral part of that is serving others just as others serve us.  In short, it’s love all around, in all directions—sincere, genuine kind, compassionate love.  All of humankind is more alike than we’re different.  We must recognize…

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About a year ago, I visited the World War II Museum with my close friends Leon and Jocelyn Connelly.  This was my second time at the museum, and thoroughly enjoyed the superb production of Beyond all Boundaries, a brand new 4-D film presented on a 120-foot wide “immersive screen.”  Tom Hanks was executive producer of this…

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Our nation needs desperately to unite.  We’re two years away from any election and if we avoid hyperinflation and/or a worldwide depression by acting, I predict the voters will tend to vote for incumbents. But if we don’t act at this great opportunity and simply point fingers, financial disaster is on the near-term horizon.  This…

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 I just read an exciting article in The Economist (June 1): called, “Towards the End of Poverty.”  It explains how nearly 1 billion people have been raised out of extreme poverty between 1990 and 2010.  Most of these were in China.  It concludes that capitalism and free trade were the main drivers in this success.     That’s the…

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One of my favorite writers, Peggy Noonan,  had another insightful article in a recent edition of “The Wall Street Journal.” She again addresses the flagrant abuses of the IRS, hounding political enemies of the Obama Administration in the years leading up to the 2012 elections.  This is a very serious state of affairs that must…

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