Politics
Why Are Gas Prices So High and What Can You Do?
By Mark Myers · 16 years ago
The cost of fuel is getting completely out of hand recently. There is something we can do. Agreed, some will be equivalent to the horse pulling the train backwards, however some are useful. None are ...
Passion and the Democratic Party
By Mary Ann Boulette · 16 years ago
I was recently reviewing some comments to one of my articles published on the net and noticed one comment mentioning how "passionate" I seem to be about this primary season. And they are absolutely right ...
Robert Shapiro on Bill Pavelic
By Victor Hewitt · 16 years ago
Robert Shapiro, one of the nation’s best-known attorneys is most notable for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson. He is also a co-founder of LegalZoom and a partner of Christensen, ...
The Folly of Making Ethanol from Food Crops
By Klaus H Hemsath · 16 years ago
Why is it that stupid ideas find so many followers? European Governments, the US Federal Government, and an increasing number of US State Governments have issued legislation that requires the use of ethanol in cars. ...
The Campfires of Fools
By Bob Miller · 16 years ago
While Obama, Clinton, and McCain tell their flag-waving supporters about what a wonderful country we have and they all sing out "God Bless America", these politicians know, if the others don't, that at that very ...
Deforestation
By Simon Rosser · 16 years ago
Deforestation is basically the loss or destruction of forest habitat, primarily from the action of human beings.
It is the single largest source of land- use greenhouse gas emissions, and accounts for around 18 -20% ...
Boycotting Beijing: A History of Politics at the Olympic Games
By Jackson Kern · 16 years ago
China recently demonstrated its willingness to brutally suppress stirrings of Tibetan sentiment. Angry protestors in Paris and elsewhere then seized the occasion of the Olympic torch's passing to express their ire toward the hosts of ...
10 Patriotic Quotes to Celebrate Cinco De Mayo
By Noel Jameson · 16 years ago
You read it right -- these ten patriotic quotes are to celebrate Cinco De Mayo, an often misunderstood holiday. Many Americans do not understand the significance of the holiday. Many believe it is strictly a ...
Political Corruption in New York State
By Ana Nomis · 16 years ago
State officials take down a respected health care facility because they were too successful.
Despite the recent atrocities in New York that caused the removal of a now former Governor, Eliot Spitzer, what most people ...
Three Challenges Defining Social-Political Sustainability
By Jackson Kern · 16 years ago
The subtle difference between pure social development and social-political sustainability is very central to the pursuit of sustainable development. Just as economic development accomplishes little if the achievements heralded are unsustainable, so too must social ...
Are Republicans Thugs?
By Bob Miller · 16 years ago
In order to answer the question, Are Republicans Thugs?, it'll take coming to grips with the fact that the Republican Party is not the same party one's grandparents voted for.
To grasp what has taken ...
Anti-Terrorist Campaigns, U.S.A., 1900-02, 1905-07
By Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
1900–1902
The Philippine Insurrection is an American term for what a number of Philippine historians would call The Philippine Revolution for Independence.
The first Philippine leader of the Insurrection/Revolution was a charismatic young man called ...
Foreign Aid and Why it should stop
By Ashira Goddard · 16 years ago
Foreign aid. Watching a recent political debate between parties, I was struck at the opposites of what the debate was on and the advertisements coming at the breaks. While the politicians of this great nation ...
Citizenship and Immigration
By Sally Odell · 16 years ago
For many Americans, their U.S. citizenship issued at birth is something they don’t think twice about. But for applying immigrants, citizenship is a serious goal.
Hopefully most American natural born citizens understand that citizenship is ...
Immigrant Visas and Non Immigrant Visas
By Sally Odell · 16 years ago
What is a visa and how does it relate to immigration?
If you’re a citizen of this country by birth, either within the territory of the United States or to U.S. citizen parents, most Americans ...
Calvin Coolidge: The Focal Points of His Value System
By Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
On the 10 Reasons Why Coolidge and Dawes Should Have Your Support card used in Coolidge and Dawes’ 1924 Election campaign, seven of the ten reasons for supporting Coolidge for President speak directly of how ...
Coolidge, Culture, and The Great Generation
By Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
"We do not need more government. We need more culture." 1 Coolidge’s concept of culture was directly related to his work ethic of industry, ambition, and untiring effort or persistence. The application of this ethic ...
Calvin Coolidge's Exaltation of Thrift and Hard Work
By Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
Thrift and hard work were very much a part of the Puritan Ethic that framed Calvin’s growing up years and became part of who he was as an adult.
Although his family was economically upper ...
"Silent Cal": His Idealism
By Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
The basic elements of Coolidge’s Character as presented in "The Man and His Character" and "The VilliagerThat Raised Him" are the foundation stones of his idealism.
Coolidge believed that the principal ideal of the American ...
Open Letter to Cable News Personalities
By Mary Ann Boulette · 16 years ago
You have really made me angry tonight. It is my opinion that your "opinions" of Senator Clinton's Bosnia trip, have gotten old and I am sure many viewers agree with me. Do you realize how ...