806 articles related to "government"

The Bitch and Another Silly Season!

Well Darlings, Here we are again in the silly season - the party political conferences. Trying to commit suicide, the Lib Dems didn't need a change in the law for assistance to that end, the media was out there, hanging on their every word and ...

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The Bitch: Oil and Troubled Waters!

Well Darlings, While I won't trivialise the damage the BP oil leak is causing, or the amount of suffering by the people around the Gulf of Mexico, which will undoubtedly become worse as time passes, I am totally amazed at the almost non-stop vi...

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Weird Smoking Laws

As more and more states adopt laws that prohibit smoking in public, crushing the hopes of cigar smokers with the ease of crushing a used cigarette, people everywhere are calling "foul," restraining themselves from telling lawmakers to kiss their ash....

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The Inertia of Power

I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved to be right... Buried in all his pre-invasion bluster was a promise that Iraqis would give the Americans 'another Viet Nam' if they tried to occupy the country. To many, this sounded like just anot...

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The Ghetto Balance

In truth, most people that reside in the places called ghettos are involved in inner & outer conflict. The struggles to attain happiness are conflicted in many ways, but the goals are always for prosperity, unified joy, and harmony. These expressions...

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The Bitch and We the People!

Well Darlings, Lately we are hearing an awful lot about the public sector and cuts to services, which brings me to ask: why do so many people want to make their careers in the public sector? Are they actually needed? Is it really to serve we the peo...

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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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The Leo Wanta Saga, Pt. 14: Bush 'Preparing the Way' to Release $4.5 Trillion in Repatriated Offshore Funds to AmeriTrust

According to sources close to the recent G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, pressure from financial big shots and foreign heads of state has 'put the heat' big time on the Bush administration this weekend to release $4.5 trillion dollars...

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Free Markets Cannot Succeed

In a recent debate, a free market detractor described libertarians as the "free market is infallible crowd." Infallible means something is incapable of failing, but it also implies that failure and success are meaningful descriptions of the subject. ...

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Dialogue on Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action Advocate (AAA): I believe in Affirmative Action, because it equalizes the playing ground. If 5% of America is Asian, then in a class room of 20, there should be one asian. If 35% of America is black, then in that same class room, t...

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