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Giving And The Pursuit Of Happiness

Andrew Shapter | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: America, Rights, Philanthropy, Liberty, Relationships, Charity, Freedom, Pursuit of Happiness, The Giving Life, Declaration of Independence, Giving, Chicago, Living News
Andrew Shapter

Is happiness something that we can really pursue? If so, how would we define what happiness is, and when would we know if or when we've got it?

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The Freedom Tray: Protecting Food And Drinks From Tyranny (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Freedom Tray, Freedom Tray Comercial, Funny Infomercials, Infomercials, Funny Videos, Freedom, Comedy News

I'm an American. And like most Americans, I like my food and drinks to be organized, secure, and most of all, free from tyranny. I can't tell you how ...

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Have We Forgotten God?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: John Adams, Freedom, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Religion, The Inner Life, Living News
John W. Whitehead

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

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Lessons from the Velvet Revolution

Stephen Zunes | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Ronald Reagan, Freedom, Nonviolent Action, Czechoslovakia, Democracy, Velvet Revolution, Fall of Berlin Wall, World News
Stephen Zunes

These movements were largely led by democratic socialists who mobilized workers, church people, intellectuals, and others to face down the tanks with their bare hands.

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Celebrity Spotting at Spinning in Los Angeles

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Exhibition, Fame, Freedom, Inhibition, Paparazzi, Exercise, People Watching, Balance, Celebrity, Spinning, Class, Privacy, Living News
Lisa Guest

When Ms. Celebrity entered the mirrored room, I was stunned. It's only because she's been famous her whole life that most people would recognize her.

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Aging: Giving Up 'Giving Up'

Jim Selman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Habits, Aging, Fear, Wisdom, Relationship, Values, Retirement, Transformation, Freedom, Future, Prejudice, Resentment, Growing Older, Choice, Eldering, Happiness, Living News
Jim Selman

What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?

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Love Your Body, Love Your Life by Sarah Maria

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Diets, Body Hatred, Ira M. Sacker, Negative Body Obsession, Love Your Body, Sarah, Freedom, Eating Disorders, Maria, Love Your Life, Nbo, The Balanced Life, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

I believe that body hatred lies deep under a host of physical problems. How can we possibly expect to be healthy if we reject our own primary residence?

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John McCain, Computer Geek

Auburn McCanta | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Internet, First Amendment, Net Neutrality, John McCain, Senator John McCain, Internet Freedom Act, Freedom, Politics News
Auburn McCanta

During the 2008 election, Senator John McCain famously admitted he didn't know how to use a computer and was only then learning to use a Blackberry. Oh, how times have changed.

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N.O.P.E.: National Organization of Pissed Off Elders

Jim Selman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Social Security, Elders, Drag Race, Bureaucrats, Power, Capitalism, Common Sense, Compassion, Ideology, Decency, Politics, Scooters, Freedom, Principles, Slogan, Goodwill, Customer Service, Nope, Zoomers, Sex, Living News
Jim Selman

I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.).

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American Foreign Policy Council's Ilan Berman Exhorts the West to Find its Backbone

Heather Robinson | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, President Obama, Iranian Revolution, Terrorism, Freedom, President Bush, War on Terrorism, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Heather Robinson

American leaders have a habit of voicing support for democracy movements and then abandoning their champions, failing to provide them with economic or strategic support.

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"Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Freedom, Self-Help, Peter Breggin, Values, Psychology, America, Founding Fathers, Constitution, Responsibility, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

We've taken the "wow" out of America. It's time to put it back. It's time to be proud to "Live like an American!"

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Live-Streaming The Freedom Awards: Celebrating Anti-Slavery Heroes

Peggy Callahan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Freedom, Human Traffickers, Sex Slavery, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Free the Slaves, Slaveholders, Freedom Awards, Slavery Survivors, Impact News
Peggy Callahan

I dreamed up the Freedom Awards because in Free the Slaves we insist that the people who are closest to slavery should be the leaders and spokespersons of the anti-slavery movement. Who better to tell the world that this is real slavery?

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Thanksgiving(?) Again

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, Belief Systems, Enlightenment, Freedom, Thanksgiving, Canada, Democracy, Sovereignty, Judeo-Christian, Gettysburg Address, Politics News
Paula Gordon

I was attacked for an earlier post as un-American for acknowledging Canada's Thanksgiving celebration and for not celebrating America's. Rest assured! I fully intend to celebrate next month as well.

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Scott Foval | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Rememberance, Hate, Freedom, 9/11, Mourning, Good, Prayer, Evil, Loss, Love, Bigotry, Living News
Scott Foval

Never forget, but never give in to the hate. That is the challenge.

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Why Emotional Pain Doesn't Have to Lead to Suffering

Gangaji | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Identity, Suffering, The Inner Life, Happiness, Freedom, Living News
Gangaji

Pain that is met consciously does not grow into suffering.

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Freedom Without Compromise: An Interview With Greg Habstritt

Gail Lynne Goodwin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Compromise, Empowerment, Greg Habstritt, Freedom, Gail Lynne Goodwin, Living News
Gail Lynne Goodwin

Freedom is an ideal that is held in high regard and desired by many. However, regardless of our passionate desire to create it in our lives, we often end up settling for something else, by necessity rather than choice.

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Dance Your Blues Away

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Freedom, Dancing, Ed and Deb Shapiro, Gabrielle Roth, Deb Shapiro, The Inner Life, Meditation, Dance, Spirituality, Ed Shapiro, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

When Ed was just 16 he won a dance contest on TV's popular Ted Steele's New York Bandstand and became a regular on the show; when he was 19 he won the...

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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate, Collective, Break In, Police, Activity, President Barack Obama, Racist, Run, Healing, Drugs, Beer Summit, Robbery, Boy, Home, Urban, Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2nd Amendment, Running, Ritual, African American, Sgt. James Crowley, Freedom, Man, Glenn Beck, Credit Card, Black, Shelby Steele, Franz Fanon, Gun Rights, Cat-Calling, Reconciliation, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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An Invitation: Suspend All Diagnosing

Gangaji | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Over-Diagnosis, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Freedom, Living News
Gangaji

You are cordially invited and sincerely encouraged to declare one day a diagnosis free day. (It's not as simple as it may sound.) During the period of twenty-four hours, diagnosis of any kind is denied admission into your evaluation of yourself and others.

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The Emptiness of Anger

Jay Michaelson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Dalai Lama, Anger, Non-Self, Buddhism, Emptiness, Buddhist Meditation, Freedom, Meditation Practice, Living News
Jay Michaelson

Fighting it doesn't work, but paradoxically, once you accept the anger, it's easier for it to pass. This, I think, is a taste of freedom.

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Equinunk, Tell Your Story

Lanny Davis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Alternatives to Summer Camp, Summer Camp, Camp Counselor, Freedom, Living News
Lanny Davis

Being a kid at a seven-week sleep-away camp is a field of dreams -- as close to heaven as a baseball field carved out of a cornfield in Iowa.

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Freedom, Choice, and Health Care Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Great Transformation, The Foundry, Freedom, Health Insurance Exchange, Heritage Foundation, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Stiglitz, Rory Cooper, Health Care, Public Option, Conservatives, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The Health Insurance Exchange is a means of regulating private insurance, not destroying it: it maintains a market for insurance, while affirming modern-day economists' good sense.

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What the Neocons Don't Get about Freedom

Mike Signer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Krauthammer, Iran Election, Demagogue, Freedom, Neocons, Democracy, Democracy Promotion, Jonah Goldberg, Barack Obama, State Department, Politics News
Mike Signer

A key aspect of constitutionalism is that it begins and ends with the people, rather than rhetoric, institutions, or leaders. Thus the genius of Obama's policy of actual democracy promotion.

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GOP Senator: U.S. Is "Where Germany Was Before WWII"

The Washington Independant | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Demint, Demint, Freedom, Germany, America, Iran, Tyranny, Socialism, Gop, Republican Party, Hugo Chavez, Obama Administration, Obama, Revolution, Politics News

Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book "Saving Freedom." DeMint told a room of ar...

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Back in Lady Liberty's Head

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty, Freedom, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Reopen, Compromise, Statue of Liberty's Crown, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

The real, full name of the Statue of Liberty is "Liberty Enlightening the World." She wears a crown because she's a goddess championing the cause of all causes: freedom.

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