806 articles related to "government"

1001 Events That Made America: A Patriot's Handbook (A Book Review)

A very close connection exists between history and chronology, since chronology explains the events that have taken place as the result of what happened earlier. We may know many well-documented accounts of history; however, if these accounts were no...

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Politics Needs Enthusiasm, Not Power

We live in a day and age where doing what is right is no longer right. Politicians are now driven by popularity rather than compassion. It has led to a decline in political enthusiasm. Young people have no desire to vote, better yet pay attention to ...

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You Pay for Customer Service

The United States has gravitated from an industrial economy, where we produced most of our own goods, to a service economy, where we no longer produce the majority of our own goods. I have been out of college for almost nine years now but always work...

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Politicians Deficient Math Skills - Ignorance Or Arrogance?

I often wondered if politicians are really that ignorant and deficient when it comes to math skills or are they really good at math but arrogant enough to think that they can tell us anything, math wise, and we are too deficient to understand the mat...

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Slavery And Racism - Is The United States To Blame?

There is a lot of antagonism toward the United States in certain segments of the African American community. People such as Louis Farrakhan have made hatred of the United States "fashionable" and "cool". President Obama has been a part of this commun...

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And You Thought Only The Federal Government Was In Bad Financial Shape

Many experts from various fields of expertise have talked about how dangerously high the Federal government's debts and spending are and how that debt and spending threaten the very solvency of the country. Just in the last three fiscal years du...

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The Character of a Nation

A nation is only as strong as the character of its people. In a speech just before his historic inauguration as the United State's 44th President, Barack Obama said, "never forget that the true character of our nation is revealed not during time...

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A Republican Jew (No, It's Not An Oxymoron)

In the wake of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, and the news that approximately 24% of American Jews (an increased, but still relatively small percentage) voted for George W. Bush, it is, I believe, an appropriate time to examine (not for the fir...

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reflection of american muslim

REFLECTION OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS.After the 9/11 event, all Muslims are thinking that”What is the future of Islam? ”, especially in America, as we are seeing in Iraq, Afghanistan what is America is doing in the name of terrisiom. While seeing in the...

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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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