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Is Your Food Being ‘Poisoned’?
11 Jun 2013 
12:07 am
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “poison” as “a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.”
The legal definition of the term is “any product or substance that can harm someone if it is used in the wrong way, by the wrong person, or in the wrong amount.”
The medical condition of poisoning is even broader: It can be caused by substances that are not even legally required to carry the label “poison.”
Therefore, can food become poisonous? Of course it can if …
Say NO to GMOs in Your Food
4 Jun 2013 12:07 am
On Memorial Day weekend, 2 million people marched in protests against seed giant Monsanto for the purpose of bringing awareness to hazards from genetically modified food, which it and other companies manufacture. Organizer Tami Canal said protests were held in 436 cities in 52 countries.
Genetically modified plants are grown from genetically modified, or engineered, seeds, which are created to resist insecticides and herbicides so that crops can be grown to withstand a weed-killing pesticide or integrate a bacterial toxin that can ward off pests.
The Chicago Tribune reported that because genetically …
Special Veterans
28 May 2013 12:07 am
I recently read a great story about the oldest living American veteran. And then it made me think about my brother Wieland, who gave his life in Vietnam.
Last Friday, Fox News reported that Richard Arvine Overton, a World War II Army veteran, would be commemorating his 107th Memorial Day from the front porch of his Texas home, which he built after coming home from World War II.
Overton was born May 11, 1906, the same year as the big San Francisco earthquake. He will shortly become a supercentenarian — someone who …
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The Ultimate Clutch Player
21 May 2013 12:07 am
America has the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and the UCP (ultimate clutch players). One is mixed martial artists, and the other is quarterbacks of the NFL. They all are athletic warriors who are extremely determined to win.
My favorite in the UFC is Georges St-Pierre. My favorite in the UCP is Tim Tebow.
I know what you are thinking: Tebow has been in the NFL for only three years. True, but Tim’s 2011 season with the Denver Broncos was one of the most remarkable in football history.
What sportsman ever could forget how …
My Mom’s Advice for America (Part 2)
14 May 2013 12:07 am
Last week, I cited my 92-year-old mother’s wisdom from her autobiography, “Acts of Kindness: My Story.” I highlighted her book’s advice for how to help my fellow Americans:
–How we reawakened the American dream and spirit.
–Don’t be surprised by hardship.
–Fight worry.
–Get back to the basics.
With Mother’s Day right at our backs, here’s the rest of my mom’s insight, directly quoted from her life story:
“Be humble and willing to work.
“Back in the 1930s, any work was good work. We picked cotton, picked up cans, scrap metal, whatever it took to get by. …
My Mom’s Advice for America (Part 1)
7 May 2013 12:07 am
On Mother’s Day weekend 2012, many of you probably watched my 91-year-old mom, Wilma Norris Knight, being interviewed by a friend of ours, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, on his Fox News Channel show, “Huckabee.” WorldNetDaily also reported on her television special.
If you didn’t catch it, you still can view the interview on my official website, at http://chucknorris.com, the only place where you can order an autographed copy of my mother’s autobiography, “Acts of Kindness: My Story,” which makes a great Mother’s Day gift, too.
I was rereading through her life …
Benjamin Franklin’s 2 Questions Still Stand
30 Apr 2013 12:07 am
In 1787, when delegates at the Constitutional Convention were divided and at an impasse regarding how to build our government and frame the U.S. Constitution, 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin appealed to the other delegates to pray for divine intervention to help them out of their darkness:
“In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened … that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of …
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The Unseen Wounds and Warriors of War
23 Apr 2013 12:07 am
Post-publication note from Chuck: At the time I wrote the column below, news had not broken about the massive and devastating explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Of course, all of my condolences and commendations about the victims and crisis care community in Boston I extend with profound correlations to my own heartbroken neighbors in Texas. One television news report estimated that 700 first responders were deployed immediately into action there. Let no one say the selfless and sacrificial American spirit isn’t alive and well!
As with others across …
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America’s Founders vs. the IRS
16 Apr 2013 12:07 am
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that agents for the Internal Revenue Service are bypassing warrants and sifting through the email and other electronic communications of American citizens.
Those documents disclosed that “agents were told they didn’t need a warrant to root through emails, texts or Facebook pages of people (the IRS) is investigating,” according to Fox News.
Despite the fact that IRS email surveillance is a clear affront to privacy and civil liberties, last week, the IRS categorically stated that it has done nothing wrong. The …
IRS Now Robo-audits Your Spending
9 Apr 2013 12:07 am
These are the types of invasive tax maneuvers that boiled the blood of our Founding Fathers. But there’s still a way out of all our Internal Revenue Service wars and woes.
U.S. News & World Report highlighted some more encroaching news this past week in the article “IRS High-Tech Tools Track Your Digital Footprints.”
The IRS is “collecting a lot more than taxes this year,” the report explained. “It’s also acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers’ digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time …
Assault on Religious Liberty (Part 2)
2 Apr 2013 12:07 am
Last week, I gave 12 examples of how religious liberty has been assaulted in just the past two years in the U.S. Here are about two dozen more instances just for good measure, as reported by the Family Research Council, the office of Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., and various media outlets.
–The following public institutions recently have joined the growing ranks of those that have banned the use of the word “Easter” in order to diminish or eliminate references to religion: East Meadow School District in New York, Prospect Heights Public …
Holy Week and Holy War (Part 1)
26 Mar 2013 12:07 am
It’s Holy Week, but what’s not so holy is the assault on religious liberty in the U.S.
Religious liberty has been called rightly America’s “first freedom,” not only because the right is contained in the First Amendment but also because it predates the U.S. and has its origin in God, not government, and the freedoms he endowed within us. But over the past few decades, that basic freedom has come under assault — particularly, in recent years, regarding Christianity.
Last week, I discussed how religious liberty in foreign countries is being suppressed. …
Why You and I Would Be Arrested in Iran
19 Mar 2013 12:07 am
The Telegraph, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, noted how Catholicism has spread its wings by appointing Pope Francis as its first non-European pope since A.D. 741. Yet countries such as Iran are still clamping down on religion by incarcerating Christians and putting them on trial for their faith.
According to Fox News, “five men were among seven arrested in October when security forces raided an underground house church in the city of Shiraz during a prayer session.” And Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a religious persecution watchdog organization, elaborated that they are …
Spring Break, Sexual Predators, Cartels and Your Kids
12 Mar 2013 12:07 am
A registered sex offender and convicted child rapist is being observed by South Carolina cops in the presumed deaths of two young women, including a New York teenager who disappeared while on spring break in Myrtle Beach nearly three years ago, Fox News just reported.
Each year, more than 1.5 million students go on spring break, spending $1 billion on their spring flings. According to a University of Wisconsin study, 75 percent of those college men and 43 percent of the women are daily intoxicated during that week. And 1 in …
10 Reasons I Wish George Washington Were Still Alive (Part 3)
5 Mar 2013 12:06 am
In the previous two columns, I highlighted the first seven of the top 10 reasons I wish George Washington were still alive:
10) Washington was a role model for many, even as a youth.
9) Washington epitomized courage.
8) Washington wasn’t afraid of public opinion or challenging the status quo.
7) Washington was a man of integrity and character yet just as human as the rest of us.
6) Washington was a first-class servant leader who walked what he talked.
5) Washington didn’t allow personal obstacles to stop his service to God, his family and his …
10 Reasons I Wish George Washington Were Still Alive (Part 2)
26 Feb 2013 12:06 am
To commemorate Presidents Day and Washington’s Birthday, last week I highlighted the first four of the top 10 reasons I wish George Washington were still alive:
10) Washington was a role model for many, even as a youth.
9) Washington epitomized courage.
8) Washington wasn’t afraid of public opinion or challenging the status quo.
7) Washington was a man of integrity and character yet just as human as the rest of us.
Here are a few more of the reasons I wish Washington were still alive and why I believe the model of his life …
10 Reasons I Wish George Washington Were Still Alive (Part 1)
19 Feb 2013 12:03 am
Many conservatives point to great modern men and leaders, such as Ronald Reagan, as models we can follow, and I concur with their sentiments. But I think the best leaders lived long ago, during the founding of our republic, away from the limelight and luster of today’s politics and Washington drama.
With Feb. 18′s being Presidents Day and Feb. 22′s being the actual day George Washington was born, I thought there would no better time to honor the man I consider to be one of the greatest leaders ever born. And …
Reducing Violent Crime in the US From the Inside Out (Part 4 of 4)
12 Feb 2013 12:07 am
In the past few weeks, I’ve highlighted ways we can reduce violent crime in the U.S. But I’ve saved the best and most powerful solutions for last because they work from the inside out.
In Part 1, I revealed how rational and rewarding it would be to post armed guards at our schools. In Part 2, I showed how reducing the number of firearms in the U.S. would not curb violent crime. In Part 3, I began to discuss the first of two ways in which our Founding Fathers expected to …
Reducing Violent Crime in the US From the Inside Out (Part 3 of 4)
5 Feb 2013 12:06 am
In the past two weeks, I’ve highlighted ways we can reduce violent crime in the U.S. But I’ve saved the best and most powerful solutions for last because they work from the inside out.
In Part 1, I revealed how rational and rewarding it would be to post armed guards at our schools.
In Part 2, I showed how reducing the number of firearms in the U.S. would not curb violent crime.
Today and next week, I will discuss an age-old solution that America’s Founding Fathers knew was key for maintaining civility in …
Do Gun Bans Curb Violent Crime? (Part 2 of 3 on reducing violent crime in the US)
29 Jan 2013 12:06 am
Who isn’t sickened by the moral decay and heinous acts of violence across our country? My heart and prayers continue to go out to victims everywhere.
But do gun bans — such as the one proposed this past week by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., which would outlaw 120 specific firearms — curb violent crime?
Not according to a recent Fox News investigation titled “Assault-weapons ban no guarantee mass shootings would decrease, data shows.” The report concluded, “Data published earlier this year showed that while the (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, …
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