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The Great Escape!

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Instincts, Emotions, Marriage, Relationships, Job, Fear, Learning to Leave, Employment, Leaving, Happiness, Self-Help, Unemployment, Freedom, Self Help, Careers, Personal Anxiety, Anxiety, Living News

Being hardwired to stay is what makes it difficult to leave.

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3 Keys To Higher Love And Restoring Happiness

Anne Naylor | Posted 04.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Freedom, Shame, Joy, Forgiving, Personal Value, Higher Love, Clearing Out Deadwood, Comfort Zone, Self-Image, Possible Dream, Personal Values, The Inner Life, Living News

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a w...

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Living in Plato's Cave

Tom Morris | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Aristotle, Freedom, Plato, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Confidence, New York Stock Exchange, Recession, Plato's Cave, Business News

It's time to move out of Plato's Cave and completely board it up. This is one piece of property that should be put into foreclosure, forever.

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Teacher Accountability and Autonomy

Robert Rose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Responsibility, Autonomy, Freedom, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Quality, Education, Teachers, Teaching, Politics News

Accountability is only fair and possible when teachers have the freedom, the autonomy, to use all the tools at their disposal in the manner the best serves them and their students

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3 Keys To Personal Accountability And Creating A Better Life

Anne Naylor | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Wealth, Responsibility, Personal Accountability, Health, Well-Being, Freedom, Russell Bishop, Love, Happiness, Possible Dream, Possibilitarian, The Balanced Life, Living News

"Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault. . . They made me do it. . . I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It...

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RED the Book: How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Generation Obama, Community Service, Martin Luther King, Charity, Volunteering, Teens, Martin Luther King Jr., Biracial, Community Organizing, Teenage Girls, Martin Luther King Day, Millennial Generation, Race, Teenagers, Ignorance, Hate, President Obama, Civil Rights, Obama Volunteers, Post-Racial, Barack Obama, Blacks, United States, Freedom, African Americans, Racism, Bigotry, Living News

Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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Good Riddance Gitmo!

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, US Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, Barack Obama Guantanamo, Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Kidnapping, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Incarceration Rates, Freedom, Criminal Justice, Detainees, Politics News

Stuff? Is that what waterboarding is? Just stuff? How about putting hoods over people's heads and making them pile on each other naked like they did at Abu Ghraib? Is that also just stuff?

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I won't eat while Zimbabwe starves

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Hunger Strike, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Violence, Sadc, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Fasting, Freedom, Zimbabwe Elections, Campaign, Civil Society, Zimbabwe Presidential Election, ZImbabwe Crisis, World News

On Wednesday, I chose to have my last meal for 21 days. I will only drink water, in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, who are being forced to fast involuntarily.

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The Freedom Stagnation

Arch Puddington | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, George Bush, Zimbabwe, World, George W. Bush, Democracy, Ukraine, Freedom House, Freedom of Speech, Communism, Bush Administration, Counterterrorism, Egypt, Freedom, President Bush, China, Cuba, Soviet Union, World News

Early 2005 marked the culmination of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the most significant and largely nonviolent protest movements that succeeded in supplanting corrupt and autocratic governments in the former Soviet Union.

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The 3 A Formula: Simple Steps To Get Clear And Free

Anne Naylor | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Change, Wisdom, Relationships, Health, Freedom, Inner Life, Clarity, Spirituality, Acceptance, Awareness, 3 a Formula, Action, Living News

So what to do when you might be facing new and challenging circumstances, feeling possibly hopeless or helpless? The 3 A Formula is: Acceptance... Awareness... Action.

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Today Is Human Rights Day

Michael DeJong | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Environmental, Human Rights, Mass Consumption, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cradle-to-Cradle, Freedom, Eleanor Roosevelt, UN General Assembly, Deregulation, Green Living, Sustainability, Living News

Living consciously and mindfully of the potential for cradle-to-cradle living and sustainability is empowering enough to make tiny but impactful different choices in our purchases.

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What President-Elect Obama Must Do Once He Closes Gitmo

Robert Greenwald | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Military Commissions, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Freedom, Guantanamo Bay, George Bush, Darrel Vandelveld, Anthony Romero, Cuba, Gitmo, Torture, Politics News

Watch the testimonies from those who have prosecuted and defended the Guantanamo prisoners, and see why we cannot continue to deprive them of their fundamental rights.

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The Pro-Choice Future Caught on Video: What is free.will.power?

Nancy Keenan | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Young Voters, Naral Pro-Choice America, DJ Spooky, Roe v. Wade, Freedom, Obama, Birth Control, Voting, Video, Politics News

While our values are consistent, these changes in technology -- and in the circumstances that shape women's experiences -- call on us to change the ways in which we engage the public.

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The Way I See It

Colleen Perry | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Guilt, Needs, Empowerment, Freedom, Selfishness, Resentment, Holiday Stress, Choice, Energy, Self Interest, Mental Health, Personal Needs, Emotional Wellness, Self-Esteem, Wellness, Living News

What's wrong with taking care of your own needs first so that you can meet the needs of others with integrity?

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America Awakens

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Presidential Election, Democrats, Barack Obama, Hope, Freedom, 2008 Presidential Race, Obama Hope, Obama Election Day, President Obama, President Elect Obama, Politics News

Obama is our country's better nature: A blend of the best of our world's cultures, Made real as a divine gift, so that we each better remember who we are, and what we can yet become.

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Protecting the Internet as a Global Medium for Freedom

Leslie Harris | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential, Internet, Global, Human Rights, Online, Freedom, Leadkership, President, Election, Politics News

The next president has powerful tools at his disposal including diplomacy, trade policy, and foreign aid.

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Election Anxiety: What To Do If The "Other Side" Wins

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living

Are you stressing out over the election that is just around the corner? I mean, it's bad enough that we have this economic tsunami crashing around us...

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Revisiting the War on Poverty

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Poverty, Lyndon B Johnson, Responsibility, Freedom, Global Poverty, War on Poverty, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Prisoners of Our Thougths, Alex Pattakos, Politics News

As a "human services warrior" in the 1970s, I vividly recall how difficult it was to wage the "war" on poverty under such conflicting and confusing policy positions.

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The Inspiration of Barack: What Does it Take?!

Qasim Basir | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Debate, Democrat, Barack Obama, Economy, Freedom, War, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Republican, Yes We Can, Liberal, Qasim Basir, Inspiration of Barack, John McCain, Politics News

Tell people your story and what Barack Obama means to you. These stories are important and they make this movement real. Whether superficial or profound, each of your stories means something. I will start by telling mine.

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The GOP Regulatory Debacle Was Presaged All Along

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Republican Party Platforms, City on a Hill, Bush, Gop Platforms, Economic Crisis, Economy, Freedom, Gop, Regulation, Bush 2, Platform, Free Enterprise, Business News

I am doing a serial examination of the crisis in terms of Republican complicity, the coming congressional races and the need for an Obama landslide.

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Kick In The Tush Club: A Meditation On Fearless Living

Janice Taylor | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Depression, Fear, Janice Taylor, Kick in the Tush Club, Health, Freedom, Weight Loss, Anxiety, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Happiness, Living News

Five years ago, almost to the day, after permanently removing (if you lose it; you will find it) over 50 pounds of body clutter (a.k.a. fat), decades ...

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Change: Is It Chaos or Perfection?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, The Inner Life, Happiness, Uncertainty, Change, Courage, Dr. Judith Rich, Freedom, Living News

Last time, I suggested there were seven important steps to staying on course when, in times like these, the sea of life gets choppy. Let's look at ...

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In Response to the ABC Nightline Special on Sex Trade in Haiti

Arthur Fournier | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Orphanages, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Dan Harris, Health, Freedom, Haiti, Aids, Sexual Slavery, Sustainability, Politics News

Exploitation of vulnerable people has nothing to do with ethnicity or culture and everything to do with poverty and the survival choices poor people are forced to make.

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What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Flag lapel pins are all the rage these days, but the battle over wearing the flag is older than you may have thought.

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