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Writer/Editor Louisiana newspaper, The Real Views ( http://www.therealviews.com)
Adjunct instructor, NSU, Natchitoches
Radio Hostess: KNOC 1450, Natchitoches, Louisiana Tues & Thurs 4 - 5 p.m.
Freelance writer for Society of Friends, NAM, and several web news and feature sites. Retired mental health/rehab counselor with background in forensics and education. Originally from Oregon; 28 years in Hawaii. Live modesty, believe in service and peaceful conflict resolutions.
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The recent mass killings at Fort Hood are being described in the media as akin to the stress of war and other violence associated with military life. As professionals seek forms of treatment for trauma survivors, could marijuana be useful?
Published Nov 6, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Health
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If belief in one’s own point of view is unshakable and not subject to exceptions, one writer says the Republican Party has fully met the definition of a religion. Neal Gabler declares that’s why it is impossible to reach them with rational arguments.
Published Oct 12, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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In church today I had cause to wonder about the women in those pews. New research shows a relationship between sex drive and spirituality, something even Freud stressed. So that good gal in those seats might also be good under the sheets, per experts.
Published Oct 11, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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In places like Portland Oregon, there are large communities of Hispanics. Many residents there speak mostly Spanish, some not learning English. Advertised jobs frequently require Spanish. So should Spanish be accepted as the US second language?
Published Oct 11, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a state statute prohibiting masturbation by artificial means. But if the state can protect the right of its citizens to own guns as an important liberty, how is it that devices for masturbation are prohibited?
Published Oct 9, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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Women’s suffrage, according to British-American John Derbyshire and Ann Coulter, U.S. conservative pundit, has caused so many problems America would be better off if it hadn’t happened. So should the women’s vote be repealed?
Published Oct 5, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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Portland, Oregon is labeled a progressive city. But it has its problems in this recession. An average guy named Mike Rushman gives insight into the worries of the working man as Joe the Plumber did in 2008.
Published Oct 2, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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Many citizen journalists write as well or better than the mainstream press. Furthermore there are mainstream journalists who are hacks and little else. I believe there are ways of marrying both types of media to serve the community well.
Published Oct 2, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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My cell phone story is similar to many, but with a personal twist. It involves a form of hostage-taking that many people are subjected to with virtually no appeal. Is there any wonder people don't trust mega-groups that sell us phones?
Published Oct 1, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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Just as the hurricane season is underway, recent news brings concerns about levee protection. This is particularly true given the fact it has been found more than half the U.S. population lives in counties protected by levees.
Published Oct 1, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Environment
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The latest Republican who has gone against decorum of not criticizing a sitting President on foreign soil is Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma). He plans to send representatives to Copenhagen to tell delegates not to work with Obama on climate change.
Published Sep 27, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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Fall news of most cities in the United States includes stories about going back to school. Newspapers also write about reunions, virtually institutionalized in America, with none more anticipated than those who are around for their 50th.
Published Sep 26, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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Governor Paterson claimed racial bias in the news? Was he right or was he simply covering his inadequacies? Is racial bias or racism prevalent in news; and if so, how is it manifested?
Published Sep 6, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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The news about the Obama plan to spy on social networking sites has conservatives in a dither. But is it true? Just to give insight into this issue, here's more information about it.
Published Sep 5, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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Governor Jindal of Louisiana is back in the news again. This time it’s for taking helicopters to church paid for by tax-payers dollars. So much for separation between church and politics, critics declare.
Published Sep 4, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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After months of working as an online journalist, I have concluded paid subscription will be a good way of maintaining veracity in journalism and a free press. Free doesn’t mean without charge, nor does it mean everyone with a pen should write news.
Published Sep 4, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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Death penalty advocates declare there hasn’t been a known case of wrongful execution. Texas may just have one, according to legal experts and a recent report in The New Yorker magazine. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004.
Published Sep 3, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Crime
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Guards at the embassy in Kabul have been accused by the Project for Government Oversight of threatening staff security and US reputation once again by grave misconduct. Hiring prostitutes and abusing Afghanis are among alleged abuses.
Published Sep 3, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in World
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America, in my opinion, has lost its political balance. That’s because the Left went Right, and the Right went wrong. Both are to blame for the country’s failings.
Published Sep 2, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Politics
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On September 2, 1945, the Japanese surrender was accepted by members of the Russian, American and British delegations, among others, an event ending the Second World War. A New Orleans museum underlines the importance of remembering that war.
Published Sep 2, 2009 by ■ Carol Forsloff in Lifestyle
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