All the polls today point to a significant Democratic advantage, both on how the parties are handling the key issues as well as how people will vote on Election Day Yet, as early November approaches, Democrats would be wise to understand that they are where they are, not because of their efforts, but frankly in spite of them

Democrats will be making a profound mistake if they follow through on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid?s insistence that the party will refuse to provide any funding for the war in Iraq, absent some benchmarks for withdrawal of our troops at least by September 2008 To be sure, as everyone knows, the American people quite strongly support the notion of cutting off funding for the war in the absence of achieving benchmarks of success for the war in Iraq

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years people have used plants to treat various ailments In fact there is evidence that those who lived about 60,000 years ago used plants for medicinal purposes

Most, if not all, Americans who decide to move to Mexico to "get away from it all" seem to do so based on the merits of at least two books, a handful of websites, some seminars (in the Guadalajara area), and a host of chat rooms and forums whose themes are how wonderfully cheap, relaxing, easy, and convenient it will be living in Mexico

It has been the Prime Living Locations such as the Lake Chapala area, Puerto Vallarta, San Miguel de Allende, Cuernavaca, Mazatl?n, and others to which Gringos have been attracted Because they came in droves and droves, the Mexicans in these cities had to adapt to serve the Gringos

To be honest with you, I don't see why more Gringos in Guanajuato aren't getting ripped off when trying to rent, or God forbid, buy a house on their own It never occurred to us to move here without as much Spanish under our belts as possible

You and your business partner have been working your tails off trying to get a bunch of modern, Mexican-style duplexes off the ground You've poured too much money to think about into hiring Mexican workers to build this duplex complex

There is a great restaurant in town where I love to eat steak It is cheap, though they don't offer the best cuts of meat

It is not an exaggeration to declare that the United States of America could be the only country in the world where one can graduate from high school and even college without taking one course of foreign language study Of those few schools which still require their students to take a foreign language to graduate, the one or two years of foreign language study is woefully inadequate for developing a high degree of spoken fluency

Although owning your own business may be the "best thing I ever did," it has its drawbacks, especially in the early days Many people have unrealistic ideas about business ownership, thinking that it's going to provide them this six figure income right from the first day, especially those who buy into a franchise or established retail business