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...Vermont was the only state to support the Anti-Masonic ticket in 1832, the only state except Utah to go for President Taft in 1912, the only state except nearby Maine to oppose President Roosevelt in 1936. No one has ever claimed that as Vermont goes, so goes the nation. So on Tuesday, when Vermont's voters go to the polls, the world will be watching - Texas and Ohio...
...That makes sense. Vermont has only 625,000 residents, and they aren't wrestling with most of the problems that are dominating the campaign. Vermont doesn't have many immigrants; it ranks last in the nation in foreclosures; it's consistently rated the healthiest state. But if the politics of Vermont doesn't tell us much about the politics of America, it is still quirky and intriguing...
...said, "Man must control nature." But environmental hubris is visible in such things as China's dirty skies and the 1,000 sq. mi. (2,590 sq km) of territory it loses to desertification every year. Whether or not Beijing can ensure a sunny Olympics, the state of the nation demonstrates that you mess with nature at your peril...
...recent book, “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation,” Yale psychiatrist Charles Barber argues that Americans have come to rely on psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well...
...would end, but "if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI." Both would have qualified as prophecy back in 1917. So would an even more topical prediction: that if Russia were not converted to Catholicism, that nation would "spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the church." From that moment on, Fatima provided mystical expression, and became inextricably entwined, with Catholic anti-communism...