Politics
Fair Tax, Can It Be?
By Brock Hileman · 14 years ago
It would be a difficult task today to find an American who is proud of our Federal Government. Rampant corruption permeates the Democratic and Republican parties and it seems the judicial branch is motivated more ...
Sharia law: Already in the United States?
By Rob Stanley · 14 years ago
Remember this little nugget of genius from Hollywood scholar Cameron Diaz during the 2004 election cycle? : "We have a voice now, and we're not using it, and women have so much to lose. I ...
Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane High Speed Railway = High Waste of Money
By Dub Johnston · 14 years ago
It is interesting that Anthony Albanese said last night on channel 2’s Lateline that Labor will introduce an infrastructure project looking at a high speed rail line from Sydney to Newcastle. What a waste of ...
How to Obtain Endless Followers Quickly
By Herman Mccullough · 14 years ago
Twitter is lone of the internets hottest social advertising crazes. Twitter is reshaping the road that people think about conventional marketing and is spawning an additional generation of web 2.0 selling gurus. There have been ...
Medical Translation Increased for Polish Patients
By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago
Medical Translation for Polish patients has increased recently according to government figures.
Medical translation is a highly specialized discipline where the translator uses his or her knowledge in medicine to deliver a scientific message across ...
EU Officials Entry Exam - UK Lobbying For Language Change
By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago
The government is challenging the rules for the EU Officials Entry Exam. At present candidates must use a second language rather than their mother tongue.
The new British government is now challenging the rules set ...
Yo, Don't Mess With The Constitution!
By Merry C. Battles · 14 years ago
We are at a crossroads. Do we choose to participate in the destruction of our beautiful planet or can we look forward to new vistas of exploration? Can we use this time to get it ...
Lesil McGuire takes leadership on renewable energy
By Lesil Mcguire · 14 years ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Fifty percent renewable electricity by 2025 is one of the goals for a state-wide energy policy passed into law Wednesday.
Gov. Sean Parnell signed two energy bills that aim to create a ...
There are Thousands of Innocent People in American Prisons
By Sheldon Archer · 14 years ago
Remember those nice phrases about American history that you were taught in school like "Give me freedom or give me death;" "My freedom is not for sale:" "It’s better to let ten guilty men go ...
The Regression of Secular Progression
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
As a Jew, I find it both fascinating and alarming to watch the political/philosophical/moral debate raging in this country between the leftist secular progressives and right wing Christian fundamentalists. As most of us know, the ...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal-Hard Questions
By Rabbi Major (Ret) Fishel Jacobs · 14 years ago
Gen. Stanley McChrystal is in the news. He just resigned, or was sacked for Petraeus. We all know that.
What bothers me is not the fact that he was 'loose lipped.' Or any of that. ...
Public Request for Changing the Draft Welsh Language Law
By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago
A group consisting of 14 different organisations has come together to publish an open letter to have changes made to the draft Welsh language law.
The group wishing to make changes to the Welsh language ...
British Ex-Minister Says French Is a Useless Language
By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago
"Unless we have sufficient numbers of people who speak modern foreign languages - and not just the useless modern foreign languages like French" said British Minister Chris Bryant. With the changing world we live in, ...
Book Review: General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Modern General by Lieutenant Colonel Harold M. Knudsen
By Johnny Kicklighter · 14 years ago
I'm a novice when it comes to Civil War history. I get lost in the details of the major military campaigns of the war, much less the smaller skirmishes, and even the geography at times. ...
Compulsory English Language Proficiency Exam for Immigrants Outside Of EU
By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago
Immigrants originating from outside the European Union will now have to take the compulsory English Language Proficiency Exam, introduced by the Coalition Government
The newly elected Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition government has made it a ...
The Role of State Governments in Preventing Medical Errors
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
On August 7, 2008, the Chicago Tribune posted a blog entitled "Illinois ponders how to treat medical errors" (chicagotribune.com). It was a scathing commentary on the lackluster performance of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and ...
How political agendas are influenced by lobbyists
By Matt Geddes · 14 years ago
The term lobbyist refers to the people hired by groups or organizations with particular interests to convince members of Congress to pass or defeat legislation. Lobbyists may work on the behalf of different groups such ...
BP Oil Spill Astrology Analysis
By Gurmeet Singh · 14 years ago
There has been no shortage of grief and tragedy linked to what may already be the greatest environmental catastrophe in US history. BP started the "top kill" operations to stop the flow of oil on ...
McGuire works to strengthen Alaska's economy
By Lesil Mcguire · 14 years ago
Alaskans want to live and work where energy is reliable and affordable. That is why we crafted the Alaska Sustainable Energy Act, which passed unanimously on the last day of the legislative session. This bipartisan ...
Brief historical review of the Colombian emeralds
By Andres Colmenares · 14 years ago
Emeralds have a fairly old historic home, experts do not know for sure where they come from many of the emeralds belonging to the great treasure of antiquity. This is especially true for a type ...