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My name's John Weber. I'm a former television and radio news reporter, present-day teacher and freelance writer.

My first novel, "The Point-A Lake Huron Story", is available at www.johnweberbooks.ca.

It's a great book-coming-of-age commercial fiction-and I

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Politics, News & Issues > People in the News Has Limbaugh Out-Imused Imus?: 1 of 6

Once upon a time I had the opportunity to listen to a motivational speaker, a man hired to inspire a company's workforce to come up with new ways to cut costs, improve efficiencies and increase profits. Part of his presentation dealt with the idea that often, we don't know the water we're swimming in. In other words, we can'...
Politics, News & Issues > US Leaders Expectations for Obama's first 100 days: 2 of 9

In politics, much is made of a new President's First 100 Days, but considering our rapidly expanding YouTube universe, a more accurate descriptor might be Flavor of the Week. And while there's no doubt Obama Bold continues to be the world's number one taste sensation, making the covers of major magazines worldwide, the Presi...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Is there a solution to the mortgage foreclosure crisis?: 12 of 33

Through Worth and Work (not credit) We Rise Nearly a hundred years ago, my grandfather rose at five, milked his cows by hand then delivered the milk by team and wagon to a nearby depot. A stonemason by trade, he would return by seven, then spend a ten-hour day squaring stone with a 12-pound hammer. "And you know," I remember...
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention The case against legalizing drugs: 2 of 5

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says the success of international controls on illicit drugs has created a monster: a criminal market that actually offsets the benefits of drug control. In a paper prepared for this week's Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, the Executive Director of UNODC, Antonio Maria Costa...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) The answer to America's economic crisis: 9 of 21

Once upon a time, the Statue of Liberty called out to the world's wretches with the twin promises of freedom and enterprise. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Accepting being middle-aged: 7 of 15

"We shut off our engine and the wind filled our sails. It was a beautiful clear night with a million stars. Cruise ships, glittering like diamond bracelets, passed us. Later, we picked up the lights from Great Stirrup Cay, ran inside and made our first Bahamas anchorage . . ." This is how my Saturday began, reading e-mail fr...
Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing Getting a handle on stress: 2 of 4

I've got a problem and you've got to help me. It's a matter of life and death. My father died 7 years ago from a heart attack. That's the simple explanation. The truth, however, like most things human, is a little more complex. The reality is he died from stress, stress brought on by an addiction to politics and economics, m...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Best and worst parts of the stimulus bill: 1 of 2

It would be easy, or rather convenient and consistent with our slothful, spendthrift ways, to dismiss Texas Republican Ron Paul's matter-of-fact presentation to Congress as so much tilting at windmills. But it's a sad state of affairs when his call to replace imaginary credit with hard work and savings can be seen as a quixo...
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Why a presidential candidate's character matters: 2 of 3

When I was a small-town teenager, sports heroes and movie stars were the role models of my generation. And while dreams of becoming the next Dr. J made me spend hours on the hardcourt, Hollywood's Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, the two major stars of the 80's, contributed to my character in an entirely different way. Reyn...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Will Barack Obama's administration be able to reverse the nation's economic downturn?: 8 of 10

U.S. polls indicate Americans remain enthusiastic about their president but not so regarding his economic stimulus plan. But as a teacher, used to the silence and blank stares of a classroom, I've got a different take on their antipathy. It's not that they don't support the plan, they don't get it. And what you don't getin t...