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What Could Cause A Civil War?

What do you think could cause a civil war in the United States? Think about the one thing that could cause this and share your thoughts. Rose

McCain Addresses Immigration During Speech to Hispanic Group

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain?s campaign is scheduled to give speeches regarding his proposals in terms of altering the current state of the economy and affecting the unemployment rate...

Host family needed for Indonesian exchange student

The local chapter of AFS-USA, an international student exchange program, is looking for a Nevada County family to host an Indonesian high school female student for the 2008-09 school year.

Data center utilization - 15% of 11.8 million is still a big number

Treehugger had a brilliant piece a few weeks about the statistics on computers and data centers. The headline figure is amazing - 11.8 million servers in the USA in 2007. The disturbing one is that...

Pickens: Wind + Natural Gas

Today at 10:00 EDT, the oilman/ corporate raider T Boone Pickens will hold a press conference to launch his plan (humbly entitled “the Pickens Plan”) for sharply reducing the American...

HR 5924: Retrogression is Still Around

The bill is still tightly being contested and back door pleadings and studies for this bill is presently going on, but nurses should not think that this bill is the answer for retrogression. US...

Janet Jackson, celebrities who want another show, single moms all get reality shows

Newly announced reality series include some original ideas, but also some that cover familiar territory, like yet another music competition (because there aren't enough of those already) and another...

Small pond, two fish

The story of two hospitals in Rural, USA. This scenario plays out in every single city nationwide.

Biofuels, oil reserves and our future

Yeah, I know I bang this drum incessantly, but this is important stuff. We have a short time-frame in which to act in order to head off, or at least soften, the impact of future energy demand in...

Sheer Unadulterated Idiocy

There is no other way to describe this:The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month’s Supreme...

On Trackers

My Nationaljournal.com column, on the differences between rolling-average tracking polls and other "traditional" surveys, is now online. Regular readers may be interested in the chart in the column...