For most parents, child rearing is an absolute shot in the dark.  Kids don’t come with owner’s manuals and each one is uniquely different from the last.   But now, research has revealed why some kids, no matter how great their parenting is, just don’t turn out the way we hope.  And the answer is found in their DNA.

Evidence not suggests that about 30% of kids have a defect in their genetic code prevents their brains developing enough dopamine receptors.  It seems that a lack of dopamine receptors predisposes kids to More...

Since 9/11, our nation has been engaged in a global war on terror.  This war led us to invade both Afghanistan and Iraq.   Thousands have perished or been maimed by these conflicts. We have spent well over $500 billion on the war on terror.

President Bush has identified our enemy asMore...

In 1944 the U.S government passed a landmark legislation known as the G.I. Bill.

This legislation opened up educational opportunities to millions of WW II veterans in the form of college scholarships, which were good at any school in the nation.  By 1947, half of the nation’s college students were More...

Recently, Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt published an impressive work entitled, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America".  Her premise is that for many decades now, the American education system has focused on training our youth to be an efficient and compliant workforce for major corporations.  Critical thinking has been discouraged, because such free thought would More...

Have you ever felt that your life was on a course that you could not alter?  That your fate was somehow sealed and you just weren't meant to succeed, or be happy?

There are many people who More...

Over the past few months we've seen thousands of people killed and devastated by natural disasters in China, Burma and the Midwestern United States.  It seems cruel when nature's fickle hand traces a path of devastation and loss in the lives ofMore...

Frequently, scientists or economists attempt of place a monetary value on human life.

Recently, a group of researchers at Stanford University computed the value of a healthy year of life to be $129,000.  This number represented the threshold beyond which ensuring another quality year of life was no longer financially More...