The Power of Passion

Semua orang pasti ingin sukses. Meskipun bentuk dan ukuran sukses berbeda antara satu orang dengan orang lain, namun dapat dipastikan ada keinginan dalam diri setiap orang untuk mendapatkan apa yang mereka inginkan. Sayang, tidak banyak orang yang memahami bagaimana mengelola “keinginan” ini menjadi suatu kekuatan dahsyat untuk mendapatkan sukses yang kita mau. Untuk sukses ada beberapa elemen yang terlibat. Yang pertama adalah seberapa jelas kesuksesan yang diinginkan. Kedua, seberapa besar kita menginginkan kesuksesan tersebut. Ketiga, bagaimana kita mengolah keinginan tersebut menjadi kenyataan. Nampak di sini bahwa kesuksesan selalu berkaitan dengan keinginan. Untuk mengendalikan sukses bisa kita lakukan dengan mengendalikan keinginan. Dengan kata lain, keinginan yang terkendali akan cenderung mendekatkan kita pada sukses yang kita inginkan. Mari kita bahas satu persatu tentang bagaimana keinginan akan mendorong sukses kita.

Memahami apa yang kita inginkan merupakan modal utama agar kita dapat mewujudkan apa yang kita inginkan. Untuk menjelaskan hal ini, saya s
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I’m is Reporter (Part 1)

Sikap angkuhnya begitu ketus, namun kulayangkan senyum lebar ke arahnya, dengan memalingakn muka dia meniggalkanku. Tentu ini sudah menjadi resiko menjadi seorang wartawan yang terus memburu berita, sampai berurusan dengan pengadilan karena dituduh telah menggagu privasi. Tak di sangka sebagai wartawan lepas, Firman akan merasakan pahitnya penjara. Berburu berita adalah keahliannya, bagai elang yang terus mengejar mangsa, tak akan lepas dalam pelupuk mata.
Bang Firman panggilan teman-temannya, tinggi seratus tujuh puluh centimeter, badan kurus, sering memakai celana safari, perangainya sungguh sopan dan ramah. Bekerja sebagai seorang wartawan lepas, tak terikat namun apa yang di angkat benar-benar orang terpikat. Saat orang tak berani mengungkapkan pendapat, Ia maju dengan tulisannya yang membuat para koruptor menjadi panas dibuatnya.

Hari itu di mana kejadian malapetaka datang, sang elang berita tertangkap basah ketika sedang memburu seorang pejabat yang di tuduh telah melakukan korupsi, bersembunyi di balik pepohonan rindang, ternyata tak membuat dirinya aman.
“Sudahlah Bang, hentikan semua ini” Bujuk Candra adik Firman sebelum persidangan dimulai.
“Kau tak mengerti Dra, bagaimana perasaan Abangmu ini sebagai wartawan” Dengan raut wajah serius Firman menjawab.
“Apan
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Bertamasya dengan Menulis dan Membaca

Oleh: Muh Nur

“Imajinasi lebih penting dari pengetahuan. Pengetahuan terbatas, sedangkan imajinasi seluas langit dan bumi”

Ada dua opsi yang ingin saya bahas dalam tulisan ini. Sesuai dengan tema yang saya ambil yang artinya kurang lebih adalah “Bertamasya dengan Membaca dan Menulis”, Saya ingin menelusuri apa yang sedang saya alami dan rasakan saat ini. Yang mana hal ini kerap terjadi dan timbul tatkala saya melaksanakan keduanya. Mungkin bukan hanya saya saja, tetapi sahabat-sahabat sekalian juga pasti dan pernah merasakan hal yang sama. Yaitu dengan menulis dan membaca kita merasa seakan bertamasya dengan kata-kata. Merasakan diri seakan pergi jauh kealam yang berbeda, yang belum kita jumpai sebelumnya.

Seperti halnya J.K Rowling yang telah membawa kita kealam supranatural dengan Harry Potternya, kita diajak untuk memasuki penjara Azkaban, sebuah kota kubu sihir yang mengerunkan, telah memenjarakan banduan paling kejam,Sirius Black, penyihir yang menyokong kuat raja kuasa jahat, Lord Valdemort. Dengan Ayat-Ayat Cinta, kita diajak oleh kang Abik menelusuri kota Kairo dengan keberagaman budaya dan literaturnya. Berpoleskan prosa cinta yang dibaw
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Ann Coulter’s new book on racial issues

Ann Coulter’s latest book — “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama” — comes out on Sept. 25, just weeks ahead of Election Day, but it’s not the kind of tome you’d expect from the conservative firebrand.
Mitt Romney, for instance, isn’t mentioned at all. And, although much of the 336-page book discusses President Barack Obama (and Democrats, generally), it also takes a trip down memory lane, exploring events in our nation’s racial history as far back as the Civil War.

Dedicated to “the freest black man in America,” Coulter’s “Mugged,” published by Sentinel/Penguin Group USA, is an exploration of the idea that, as she puts it, “the entire history of civil rights consists of Republicans battling Democrats to guarantee the constitutional rights of black people.”(Of slavery, Coulter calls it “a policy defended to the death of Democrats,” for instance).

On the issue of current events, much of Coulter’s criticism of the president centers on his willingness to allow “others to make despicable racial smears on his behalf.”
“As the New York Times described Obama’s typical campaign strategy back in 2008: ‘This has been [campaign manager David] Axelrod’s career, an eternal return to Chicago and to the politics of race.’”

“Obama has repeatedly returned to the well of racial divisiveness to serve his political ends,” Coulter writes. “His 2008 presidential campaign managed to revive the white guilt that had long since dissipated, and then hinted that the one path to racial reconciliation was to make him president. Only then could we stop talking about race — a conversation he had initiated in the first place.”
“He was a dream come true for liberal elites: They could indulge in self-righteousness on race and get a hardcare leftie into the White House at the same time!”
Coulter even takes on Obama’s biography: “Obama’s childhood consisted of a Beverly Hills, 90210 existence at the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu (2006 winner of ‘greenest’ school in America!). And yet he still managed to develop a racial hair trigger. Reading about Obama’s race fixation in the middle of suburban banality is akin to reading Hitler’s obsessive musing on his Germanic identity.”
Obama’s one-time pastor and friend, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, also figures prominently in Coulter’s discussion of race and the Democratic Party.

By PATRICK GAVIN

Bill Maher: Mitt Romney is like a ‘movie monster’

Liberal comedian Bill Maher couldn’t wait until his HBO show Friday to display his disgust with GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s comments on the “47 percent,” using Twitter on Wednesday to call the donors at the closed-door fundraiser “douchebags” and the candidate a “loser.”
Maher, who gave $1 million to a super PAC backing President Barack Obama’s reelection, has already declared that Romney lost the election, and previously labeled Mormonism a “cult.”

Watching #Mitt. He's like every movie monster who ever ate a city or sliced a teenager - the more glimpses u get of him the phonier he looks

#MittRomney: this is getting like a game where your team is winning but the other team is so lame the game sucks - told ya he was a loser!

These douchebags at Mitt's Boca Q and A...every time I try to stop hating Republicans...THEY PULL ME BACK IN!

Deciphering Mitt Romney's '47 percent' blunder

The best defense of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s instantly notorious “47 percent” remarks at a May fundraiser is that he made a bad point badly.
Romney mixed up three separate groups of people: the roughly half the country that will inevitably support President Barack Obama, the half that doesn’t pay federal income taxes and the half that receives government benefits. Then he declared them all a collective lost cause. He will never win them over, or convince them to take responsibility for their lives. Next question.

In reality, these are three distinct groups. Many Obama supporters are rich. Indeed, we can be fairly certain all the attendees at the president’s fundraiser with Beyoncé and Jay-Z in New York City the other day have hefty tax bills. Meanwhile, many of Romney’s supporters — especially the elderly — don’t pay federal income taxes and receive government benefits.

As a political scientist, Romney is an excellent former governor of Massachusetts.
Romney didn’t come up with this construct on his own, however. On taxes, he was repeating a conservative talking point about the perils of 47 percent of the people not paying federal income taxes — though to be precise, 46.4 percent of “tax units” don’t pay income taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center. Romney took this line of argument and blundered his way through it.

George Will says Romney speaks conservatism as a second language. At times, he sounds like the English-speaking German in a World War II movie who’s infiltrated American lines and is asked who won the World Series. Even if he memorized the answer, he sure as hell can’t tell you anything about Stan Musial.
But the point Romney messed up isn’t particularly convincing to begin with — though it has been made by serious conservatives, like Romney’s own running mate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan . The argument is that if people aren’t paying federal income taxes, they are essentially freeloaders who will vote themselves more government benefits knowing that they don’t have to pay for them.
As my colleague Ramesh Ponnuru has pointed out, there’s no evidence for this dynamic. It is true that the number of people without a federal income tax liability is up — it was just 28 percent in 1950. It is mainly the poor, seniors and lower-income families with children who don’t owe income taxes. The poor lean heavily Democratic, but that’s always been so. Seniors, meanwhile, have been swinging Republican, and there’s no indication that families with children are becoming more liberal.

George Will says Romney speaks conservatism as a second language. At times, he sounds like the English-speaking German in a World War II movie who’s infiltrated American lines and is asked who won the World Series. Even if he memorized the answer, he sure as hell can’t tell you anything about Stan Musial.
But the point Romney messed up isn’t particularly convincing to begin with — though it has been made by serious conservatives, like Romney’s own running mate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan . The argument is that if people aren’t paying federal income taxes, they are essentially freeloaders who will vote themselves more government benefits knowing that they don’t have to pay for them.
As my colleague Ramesh Ponnuru has pointed out, there’s no evidence for this dynamic. It is true that the number of people without a federal income tax liability is up — it was just 28 percent in 1950. It is mainly the poor, seniors and lower-income families with children who don’t owe income taxes. The poor lean heavily Democratic, but that’s always been so. Seniors, meanwhile, have been swinging Republican, and there’s no indication that families with children are becoming more liberal.

George Will says Romney speaks conservatism as a second language. At times, he sounds like the English-speaking German in a World War II movie who’s infiltrated American lines and is asked who won the World Series. Even if he memorized the answer, he sure as hell can’t tell you anything about Stan Musial.
But the point Romney messed up isn’t particularly convincing to begin with — though it has been made by serious conservatives, like Romney’s own running mate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan . The argument is that if people aren’t paying federal income taxes, they are essentially freeloaders who will vote themselves more government benefits knowing that they don’t have to pay for them.
As my colleague Ramesh Ponnuru has pointed out, there’s no evidence for this dynamic. It is true that the number of people without a federal income tax liability is up — it was just 28 percent in 1950. It is mainly the poor, seniors and lower-income families with children who don’t owe income taxes. The poor lean heavily Democratic, but that’s always been so. Seniors, meanwhile, have been swinging Republican, and there’s no indication that families with children are becoming more liberal.

By RICH LOWRY