806 articles related to "government"

Two Treatises of Government - A Concise Review and Summary

The liberal interpretation of the concept of a social contract, Two Treatises of Government was published in 1689 anonymously due to its anti-monarchical content. It was at its core a cry for tolerance and liberty; Locke felt that diversity encourage...

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You Are Not Living In A Free Country If...

Read the following and then you decide if you think you are still living in a free country: - You are not living in a free country if your retirement medical care, via Medicare, is dependent on the actions and whims of politicians. - You are not l...

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Sigmund Freud's Nephew and Corporate Alien Control

His name was Edward L. Bernays. He was Sigmund Freud's Nephew. He was born in Vienna on November 22, 1891 and died in his home at Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 9, 1995 at the age of 103. Before the early twentieth century, marketers thought...

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Some Friendly Economics For The Nuclear Energy Booster Club

I would like to begin this brief exposition with a bizarre fairy tale that was confected by two well known energy experts, Amory Lovins and Joseph Romm, and published in Foreign Affairs (1992-93), which is the prestigious journal of the (United State...

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"Genuine Democracy" - What Would Obama Do If Tahrir Happened On The Mall In D.C.?

As most of now know, after more than two weeks of street demonstrations in and around Tahrir Square in Cairo, Hosni Mubarak has stepped down as the leader of Egypt and that a temporary, military-based government will step and rule in until democratic...

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The Wheels On The Obama Care Bus Never Go Round and Round... They Just Fall Off

Since the legislation known as Obama Care was passed back in the spring, it seems like a good time to revisit the legislation and see what has happened in the health care industry since then. Unfortunately, for both the President and millions of Amer...

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Wisconsin Medicaid Cost Reductions - A Little Bit Of Good News On Government Spending

It does not happen often but every once in a while we come across an instance of a government entity actually reducing its costs and inefficiency when it comes to spending taxpayer money. A short article by Ryan Tracy in the August 23, 2010 issue of ...

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ICommunityFoundation

There has been much focus on the digital divide and the threat that underserved populations would be left even further behind as the digital revolution changes every aspect of our society. The human services nonprofit organization plays a large role ...

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Corporate Crime

Corporate crime? I'm not sure that there is such a thing. If we want to reduce the crimes that are given that lable, we need to quit handing out large punitive fines to corporations. The idea isn't as radical as it sounds. First of all, wh...

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Back In Time

Let's go back in time...it's 1967 and the headlines back then read:US Airforce intensifies the bombing of North Vietnam... U.S. plans to start missile net...1967 Pan Am Games...13 US helicopters are shot down in Vietnam...Writer and histori...

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