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  When a Dream becomes so much more than just Reality   Adam Dixon had a dream, he dreamed of one day creating a space for at risk youth and adults that would go beyond the typical programs and offer something that no other has ever. He did not expect that this dream would materialize into far much more than that. He created The Adam Dixon Perseverance Foundation in 2014 after 3 year professional football career playing arena football and brief stints in the Canadian Football League. He recognized the immense and immediate need for this kind of organization providing not only sensible solutions but educational scholarships, mentorship, and leadership development. He was acutely aware that there were many others at-risk youth and adults programs out there but there were still a very large part of what was needed to guarantee the success of the students missing. He made it his heavenly mission to not only discover what they were but solve those issues.   It is n...

When it comes to writing, for me, there has to be a passionate point that I feel needs to be made and probably hasn’t thus far.  I say probably because, unlike God, I am not omnipresent which means others in other locations may have addressed these subjects and I not know anything about it until someone who happens to spy both would then educate me.  That being said let’s get back to the purpose of this article. Many often ask why those who are supposed to be adults seldom act like it and choose to act more like children when it comes to certain things.  For me the answer is convenience and nothing more.  Convenience because when we are comfortable within our skins, anything that seems contrary or could threaten our comfort is looked upon as foreign and an enemy to our happiness. We say this because we may think we truly know what makes us happy but the truth be told, if we pay even the slightest attention to ourselves, we may come to realize that it’s the simpl...

There is often no more clearer of an example of good intentions turning out to be worse than intended or expected than this article.  The sad part is the true result will probably never be felt by those who made the decision nor seemed to be accounted for by those who did. I speak of this article titled “ Judge releases 3 kids locked up for failing to meet with dad ” out of Pontiac, Michigan for the Associated Press and for the life of me cannot see how this could have even been considered as a good idea in the first place.  From this article I come away thinking that intelligent thought was not a part of those involved area of thinking.  The article reports that “a judge on Friday released three siblings who have spent two weeks in juvenile detention for refusing to meet with their estranged father.  Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca said she's sending the children to a summer camp, at the request of the father.”  Because of this lack of understanding of w...

Since I am an advocate for pushing people to exercise their authority and power over evil through my writings here and my internet radio shows, I am often asked a question of “Why does hatred, bigotry and unequal justice still have such a hold on our nation and continues to corrupt our youth?”  I guess I am supposed to know this answer since I appear or pretend to be so knowledgeable in what steps we need to take to curb this evil but as sometimes luck would have it; I am often unable to answer that question at the exact time it is asked.  Now this leaves those asking, wondering if I truly believe what I preach or just running off at the mouth.  Well let me tell you, I used to allow this thought to bother me and sometimes anger me to the point of violence, especially if anyone persisted in making it a point to constantly make me aware of feeling this way.  Only after making a conscious decision not allow that evil to control me did I finally discover an answer to th...

Again Arizona baffles even the most accepting of our better angels.   They forever push the intelligence of the public and no one can honestly tell us why.   It seems that just when you think the Republican Party could get no more dismissive or exclusive, they come up with something even more mind-blowing. I speak about the article by Evan McMorris-Santoro of Talking Points Memo titled AZ Senate Passes Birther Bill With Overwhelming Majority.   The report says that “t he Arizona state Senate passed Wednesday the revised version   of a bill that would require candidates to prove their citizenship before they can appear on state ballots 20-9.   The original proposed, a candidate would have to produce a certified copy of a "long-form birth certificate" which would have to include the date and place of birth, the names of the hospital and any attending physician, and the signatures of any witnesses in attendance, but the revised has an amendment by Sen. Frank Anten...