806 articles related to "government"

How Would Our Political Class Have Handled The Dog That Mocked Hitler?

imagine how our political class may have handled a historical situation. The specific historical situation was described in a January 7, 2011 Associated Press report. Historians found a set of World War II documents that revealed a weird obsession th...

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Jill Costello: A Profile In Courage and Leadership. The American Political Class: Not So Much

I hesitated to do this article for a number of reasons. First, I could never do justice to the the fantastically written article that the following paragraphs are based on. The article is entitled "The Courage of Jill Costello" and was written by Chr...

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The United States Vs. The Rest Of The World The Numbers Are In And They Are Not Good

As Americans, we like to tell ourselves that we are the best in everything we do. The biggest, the fastest, the smartest, etc. And while that may have been a true statement in the past, in looking at a slew of recent statistics and numbers from relia...

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Since Katrina, the Environment Is Front-Page News

Ever since the end of August, when Hurricane Katrina devastated the major American city of New Orleans and the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and parts of Alabama, the consequences of environmental degradation have been front-page news. Politi...

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Environment- Maintaining the Delicate Balance!

What exactly do we mean when we speak of the "environment"? It is more complecxt than saying it is only our surrounding. The environment is a delicate equilibrium between every ingredient in our surroundings called the ecosystem. Our ecosystem co...

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Using Buttons and Badges Effectively in a Political Campaign

Political campaigns can be tense and stressful. There is so much to do and often not enough time to do it. If you are a candidate or campaign manager, you should not be without a button maker machine. These machines will help you with some of the mos...

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The Bitch: England, My England!

Well Darlings, Scanning through the news this morning, it was Sir David Attenborough who first caught my eye. Apparently he is saddened by today's health and safety culture that deters children from roaming the countryside and discovering natur...

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Supreme Court Justices Unethical Behavior?

We have all read about Jack Abramoff and how lobbying is done in Washington. Trips, dinners, campaign funding, and other perks paid for by lobbyists in return for favors the politicians can do for their clients. But our Supreme Court Justices shoul...

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Higher Taxes = Fewer Resident? Who Would Have Thought!

It has been interesting to see some of the early results being published from the 2010 Census. Of particular interest were some results published in the January 3, 2011 issue of Businessweek Magazine. The article listed out all of the states that wou...

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Solving Social Security: Fire the Politicians!

As an investor, I've always wondered why Social Security is such a problem. What's so difficult about managing this particular Trust Fund, and why is it so different from other investment accounts that pay out a constant stream of income? T...

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