806 articles related to "government"

The Energy Crisis : Headlines in the 60's and 70's

All the rage in the revolutionary years of the 1960's and 1970's were the smaller, more compact vehicles. It's the time during which we saw the first emergence of awareness of our planet, what we were doing to it and the dawn of enviro...

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Worse than tsunami, trade protectionism hurts third world citizens

by Dr. Eric SchansbergLibertarian Writers' Bureauhttp://www.writersbureau.orgLast Thursday, I was heartened to read the news that my church, Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY, had collected $732,000 from its members (beyond its weekly...

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Losing a Friend Over Stupidity

I just lost a friend because he disagreed with my point of view on these five high school students who were booted from school for wearing American flags on "Cinco de Mayo." And it's not that I disagreed with him, really. I said that I thought i...

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Leadership and Perception

Leaders lead and followers follow, right? What if, as a leader, you believed you were leading but no one was following? What if your employees believed they were being led but in reality there was no leadership? We like to believe we are effective an...

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Kashmir Terrorism: Origin and Growth

Broadly speaking, when justice and right are denied to a person over a longer period of time, the person is left with two options: bear the situation patiently, or the reaction is anguish, and that reaction, in the process culminates into terrorism. ...

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The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

The second amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on December 15, 1791 and is part of the United States Bill of Rights. It protects your right to keep and bear arms. The initial proposed passage that related to arms was penned by Ja...

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The Fault In Self-Government: The Self

With each succeeding poll measuring Americans' trust in institutions the elements of government sink to new lows. As we move toward the 2010 mid-term elections we are seeing a groundswell of anti-incumbent fever. Something is wrong; something is...

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Tribute to Gore Vidal on His 80th Birthday (Oct. 3)

October 3, 2005 is the 80th birthday of prolific American author and historian Gore Vidal. Vidal's genius shines through engaging prose (novels, plays, essays, short stories, non-fiction books) elucidating America's history and its powerf...

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Should We Worry About Immigrant Assimilation and Education?

Yes, they are important to our future! Many of tomorrow's workers and business owners are the children of today's immigrants. More than 40% of the growth of our labor force in the late 1990s was due to immigrants, and since immigration WIL...

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As The Illinois Economic Death Spiral Begins, Can The Federal Government Be Far Behind?

Interesting but sad reading from a recent Associated Press report. The article reported that the state of Illinois has now reached the desperation phase of its economic malaise: - The state has not paid many of its bills for months due to shortfall ...

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