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At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health-care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his health-care reform. That was not true. The Con …
Here, in this seaside hamlet, full of retirees and fishermen, Marty Rathbun was fighting an extraordinary religious war. The 'squirrel busters' were among its (possibly self-appointed) foot soldiers. At stake in the dispute, which has now been running for almost three years, …
Anti-government militias and extremist groups on the rise in the US. From 149 in 2008 to 1274 in 2012. One of these groups is called “Sovereign Citizen Movement” is estimated at 300,000 strong and do not believe the laws of the US apply to them.
Often it takes something major to wake us up as we struggle to maintain an illusion of control.
We have all faced moments in our lives when the pressure mounts beyond what we feel we can handle, and we find ourselves thinking that we do not have the strength to carry on.
Between 2004 and 2010, the number of sick days related to psychological illness increased ninefold in Germany. "Time pressure and stress are on the increase and the danger is that people will suffer burnout due to their jobs on the one hand and family pressures on the other, …
Travelers in Northern California can now find their inner calm in the Yoga Room at San Francisco International Airport. The quiet, dimly lit studio officially opened last week in a former storage room just past the security checkpoint at SFO's Terminal 2. Airport officials bel …
In Buddhism, there are many sects that all have their own take on exactly what enlightenment is, and the different stages of it. In Pure Land Buddhism, for example, enlightenment is the result of meditating in the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha.
First, mentioning John Boehner, Obama said he was still open to a grand compromise on Social Security and Medicare. Second, he took a gratuitous swipe at universal single-payer health care.
Meditation has not initiated any private discussions.