Category: Aggregated

Do you enjoy saving a buck more than most people?  Do you have a black belt in frugality? Here are 20 surefire signs that you are embracing your cheap side.  How many things on this list apply to you? You take it as a personal challenge to see how long you can go without spending money. The game is even better if you have a spouse or friend with whom you can compete. You don’t let food go to waste. You have an ice cream tub in your freezer nearly full of odd bits of leftovers, awaiting their reincarnation into … Continue reading →

By Dr. Mercola Processed foods are loaded with preservatives, artificial colors, and artificial flavorings, which is one of the reasons that I recommend avoiding them. Once you become a label reader, you’ll realize just how ubiquitous they are. The best way to avoid toxic chemical additives is to consume only fresh whole foods. But practically speaking, this can be difficult for many people to accomplish, at least 100 percent of the time. Chances are that, despite your best efforts, you’ll have a processed food or two somewhere in your diet. Therefore, it’s good to know which of the thousands of … Continue reading →

[Excerpted from the inaugural issue of The Austrian.] We’re eight episodes into the new Netflix series Marco Polo before we see the titular character’s first serious moral crisis over matters of state. While preparing to lay siege to their enemy’s capital city, the Mongolian troops, whom Marco Polo serves, begin butchering alive captured enemy troops so their fat can be rendered into boiling oil to be used as a weapon. Marco is horrified. “They are our captives,” he protests “This is sin.” The quaint excuse he is given is still commonly heard today: “This is war.” Indeed, in spite of numerous hours of … Continue reading →

$121,097.  Every journeyman, non-supervisory, regular ordinary plain-Jane FBI agent with five years on the job and with no particular job specialty or unique pay enhancement (like flight pay, Sunday pay, scheduled overtime pay, hazardous duty pay, foreign COLA pay, post differential, night differential, housing allowance, danger pay, travel per diem,  temporary quarters allowances, or reimbursable undercover expenses), makes $121,097 if he works in the Washington, Baltimore, Maryland, or Northern Virginia area.  If he works in the San Francisco area, he makes $131,752.   If he works in Houston, he makes $125,475.  The differences are based on “locality pay” which is an … Continue reading →

The process unleashed ten days ago by the March 12 interventions of Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Helmut Schmidt, and the former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, has produced a dramatically new global strategic situation. Now, the decision…

The process unleashed ten days ago by the March 12 interventions of Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Helmut Schmidt, and the former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, has produced a dramatically new global strategic situation. Now, the decision…