One must automatically assume that so-called “alternative” remedies are worthless (and maybe even dangerous in some instances) for the simple reason that they are marketed as “alternative” because there is no such thing as “alternative medicine.”
There is medicine that has been proven safe and effective through a scientifically rigorous, multi-step clinical trials process.
There is [...]

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What about all the companies that keep hiring people who’re here illegally?
They’re looking for cheap labor and to avoid regulations that protect workers, as well as all the taxes employers of legal workers must pay.
Meanwhile, lots of people seem to be attacking mostly poor, uneducated people who do things like pick fruit or dig [...]

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Credit card companies are, and always have been, sleazy — though nowhere near as sleazy as health insurance companies (perhaps I’ll share my spittle-flecked manifesto on that subject at some future date).*
Of course, it’s our own dang fault for running up our accounts and then wondering why we cannot get out from under all [...]

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The rural Australian town of Bundanoon has banned the sale of bottled water — and it’s possibly the first town in the whole world to ever do so.
And they may not be the last as more and more people are beginning to recognize that bottled water is not only a scam, it’s bad for the [...]

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