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Book Review: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

Authors: Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird Publisher: Princeton University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar In this compact, handy book of 157 pages with five chapters by educational consultants Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, you get a quick overview of what makes for effective thinking. The five “elements” are: earth, fire, sir, water, and the “quintessential element,” which we will describe to you below. Cleverly, the authors have related titles of the chapters to the elements: the first chapter for example – Grounding Your Thinking – alludes to the earth. Chapter 1: Earth – Grounding Your Thinking...

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Iran fighter jets fire on U.S. drone, officials tell CNN

By Barbara Starr – CNN Pentagon Correspondent Nov 08, 2012 – Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf on November 1, the Pentagon disclosed on Thursday. The incident, reported first by CNN, raised fresh concerns within the Obama administration about Iranian military aggression in crucial Gulf oil shipping lanes. The drone was on routine maritime surveillance in international airspace east of Kuwait, 16 miles off the coast of Iran, U.S. officials said. The Predator was not hit. “Our aircraft was never in Iranian airspace. It was always flying...

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America’s First Ever Hindu Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard

By Erin Gloria Ryan – Huffington Post Honolulu, Nov 07, 2012 – Last night, Hawaii not only elected Japan-born Mazie Hirono to be the first ever Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, they also elected Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as the first ever practicing Hindu to the US House of Representatives. Hawaii has been declared a Fox News Disaster Zone. Thirty-one-year-old Gabbard is the daughter of two conservative Hawaii politicians and first ran for office at age 21. After her first term, she voluntarily served on a 12-month tour of duty with Hawaii’s National Guard, and then became the first...

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Obama Wins! What to do immediately!

by Martin Weiss and Don Lucek Barack Obama has just won the most pivotal election of our lifetime. The near-term impact on financial markets could be dramatic; the potential consequences for your money, huge. But I’m ready. I have a plan of action. And I am deploying it this week — with $1 million of the retirement money my wife and I have saved up over the years. First and foremost, we will avoid the GARBAGE — the stocks that are most likely to crash and burn if the market falls … or that will greatly underperform if the...

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Boehner: GOP House majority means ‘no mandate’ for tax hikes

By Russell Berman – The Hill In a warning to President Obama, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday night that the reelection of the House Republican majority means that there is “no mandate for raising tax rates” on the American people. Boehner delivered brief remarks to a subdued crowd of Republicans in Washington who watched as Obama won key early states on the road to a possible reelection victory Tuesday. While the Speaker has in recent days predicted a victory for Republican nominee Mitt Romney, he made no such declaration shortly before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, after the House...

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