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New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States' northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, June 1, 2009, as some complain the tightening of security and others applaud it as long overdue. The rules are being implemented nearly eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks and long after the 9/11 Commission recommended the changes. They were delayed by...

When was the last time you felt a slight twinge of pain or burning in your stomach and throat, and dismissed it as. "just indigestion or a disagreement with a bit of spicy food which will soon pass."? Do you reach for an antacid with the belief it will help to minimize the pain shortly. Have you ever noticed that it didn't subside as quickly as in the past? Do you continue to dismiss it as, maybe...

Our country’s second day of Infamy occurred on September 11th, 2001. The first one, so labeled by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, occurred on December 7, 1941 – seventy years ago this year. That is the day when Japan attacked our fleet at Pearl Harbor which led to the start of WW II. As a result of that attack, the United States lost eight battleships, innumerable aircraft and over 2,400...

One issue of the health debate has always bothered me is dogmatic conservative rhetoric about...

Heart Attack In Women I'd been walking around with burning in my chest for a few days, thinking I’d pulled a muscle, or somehow inflamed the breast bone. I went to the doctor who took an EKG, saying the heart was getting less oxygen, but nothing different from my past EKGs. I left the office thinking if it was the heart something bigger would have shown on the EKG. Once home, I decided to...

Last night I had the most lucid dream that I felt I had to blog about it. Everything was so...