806 articles related to "government"

Partisan Politics Is Destroying America

Newton's third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Well, there is no better laboratory to observe the functioning of this law than in the federal government of the United States, most notably throu...

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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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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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Race Relations Between Blacks and Whites In America

The state of relations between Blacks and Whites in the U.S. still suffers greatly, and a lack of recognition and understanding by the public and the government only exacerbates the problem. For decades, the U.S. government has been repeatedly accuse...

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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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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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Facts About the Management of American Ports

The last two weeks there has been an uproar over who manages our ports. The uproar began when it became public that the British company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., who manages terminal at 6 US ports was being bought out by Dubai Por...

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We Can Change the World

It is important to have some idea of what the nature of the world governance has been before we get into trying to change it. I will present only a small part of the situation in this book because I think I have presented enough of it in other books...

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Mark Foley - Gay Congressman Resigns - The Real Deal

Florida Congressman Mark Foley has resigned from Congress amid charges and allegations that he had inappropriate e-mail contacts with a former teenage page in the House of Representatives. So what's the real deal? What's really going on? Yo...

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Gender-based Violence

Violence against women violates, impairs and nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act t...

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