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Live Longer By Drinking More Coffee

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  click to listen to the audio You wake up first thing in the morning and what’s the first thing you do? Well if you’re like most people, you reach for that first cup of morning joe, and then another, and another...

Austerity For California?

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio Greece, Spain, Italy, France, the United States, and California? With the lowest credit rating of any U.S. state in history, California is at risk of a Greek-style default crisis. We’re talking a...

FITNESS is FOREPLAY for the FAT

By Kelly Murphy, Health and Fitness Guru, Expert Out Loud THE F-Word, I am queen of the F word.  Fitness is how I found my life’s purpose by coaching women to create a healthy, balanced lifestyle through exercise, proper nutrition, and mental awareness.  As a...

Controversy Sells And Magazines Need Readers

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio If controversy does sell – then Newsweek and Time Magazine are positioned to have a very good month. One thing is certain, newspapers and magazines have come under attack from the digital...

First Presidential Debate in Egypt Makes History

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio History continues to be made in the Middle East as Egypt held its first ever presidential debate. The two front-runners in Egypt’s presidential election debated the role of religion and how to...

Why 30 Million Americans Can’t Read

by Will D. Rhame, Literacy and Education, Expert Out Loud Author and Founder, The Voyagers Series If we take a moment to analyze our current state of affairs regarding scholastic achievement in this country we can quickly see some alarming statistics. Allow me to...

Sendoff For Sendak

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak, has died at age 83. What is it that makes a great author of children’s books? Is it happiness, sorrow, funny, or simply interesting...

Political Football on Gay Marriage

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  click to listen to the audio When it comes to gay marriage, contraception rights, abortion and as Rick Santorum calls it a war on the porn industry – I’m okay with the government telling us how to run our private lives...

America’s Much-Needed Liberation from Government

By Demetrius Minor, Conservative Political Commentator, Expert Out Loud In the time and age of economic peril, we have seen many people lose hope, faith and trust. Many Americans have seen their investments and their financial security totally collapse. While the...

Higher Education Needs Reform: The Blue Ribbon Task Force

By Barney Bishop, Strategic Public Affairs, Expert Out Loud If you are an eternal optimist then Governor Rick Scott’s veto of enhanced education funding for the University of Florida and Florida State University last week was an omen of good things to come.  For in...

Europe Anti-Austerity Backlash

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio Austerity has been the main prescription across Europe for healing the debt crisis, brought on by too much government spending and reckless borrowing habits. Sound familiar anyone? The anti-austerity...

Character Assassination

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio I’ve often wondered what would it take to get more people from the business community to run for political office? Washington is broken, we need term limits, too many career politicians, no doubt...

Sinking Faster Than An Alka-Seltzer Tablet Or Recovery?

By most accounts the average American has given up looking at the jobless numbers and they’ve given up looking for work as well. Too many people are struggling and their quality of life is plummeting. This impacts everything from crime, depression, even road...

End Of The World or Reminder To Live Your Dreams

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio The question to ask yourself today is what would you change if the world was ending? Are you fulfilling your dreams or are you waiting for too many tomorrows? We think of Americans being generally...

Obama Throws A Cheap Shot

Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio As I said previously the President has every right to talk about his accomplishments, including the killing of Osama bin Laden. If he had failed, believe me Republicans would be talking about it and...
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America is in Survival Mode- featured column     Weekly Featured Column on US Daily Review Social issues continue to dominate the headlines. Yet according to a new Gallup Poll; Americans’ explanations of what they consider to be the most important moral problems facing the country focus on general issues of civility, family structure,...
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Live Longer By Drinking More Coffee Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  click to listen to the audio You wake up first thing in the morning and what’s the first thing you do? Well if you’re like most people, you reach for that first cup of morning joe, and then another, and another and…well – how much coffee is too...
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Austerity For California? Your Out Loud Thought For The Day:  Click to listen to the audio Greece, Spain, Italy, France, the United States, and California? With the lowest credit rating of any U.S. state in history, California is at risk of a Greek-style default crisis. We’re talking a $16 billion dollar deficit, with 11...
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LEADERSHIP is a four-letter word “We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness” are not exactly the kind of words you’d like to hear from your President. “But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades,’’ the President said. “We’ve kind of taken for granted — well,...