806 articles related to "government"

Economic Development on Democratic Terms: Five Key Conditions

Since economic development is the most financially consequential area of urban policy, it affects the distribution of wealth, of quality education, of employment, housing, health care and of other important indicators of the overall quality of urban ...

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2010: Politically, It Was Much Worse Than You Thought

As we come to the end of the year, it is usually a good time to look back and see what the year brought us and hopefully, be thankful for our health, wealth, and good times. However, from an American political class perspective, the events of 2010 we...

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Pro-Lifers Stand Together: Honk If You Love Protesters

Yesterday morning I was back on the sidewalk in front of Metropolitan Hospital here in Windsor, one of a line of abortion protesters that stretched all along the walk. The numbers have increased recently; it's really encouraging! If you have a ...

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Our Economically Unbalanced World

Being born an Army brat, I was very lucky to have received my American citizenship at birth since I was born in Landstuhl Army Hospital, Kaiserslautern, Germany (known to the Americans as "K Town"). My dad was in the Army, and met my mother in Berlin...

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War and Peace

The history of mankind to date having been one of almost continuous conflict, it should come as no surprise that the third millennium has started pretty much as the second ended. War and rumors of war dominate the daily news, raising fears that the s...

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What's Holding China Back?

We have added many new words to our regular vocabulary in recent years and a lot of them have come from the Internet. However probably the most used of them all is Google as a substitute work for search. It can be taken for granted that you can find ...

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How Can The Government Actually Stimulate The Economy?

People make the right decisions far more often than the government ever has, does, or will. I think that the best form of government is one that encourages, facilitate, and empower the individual citizen to make their own individual choices on how to...

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This Is Not Your Dad"s Republican Party Anymore

Stock markets are strange because they reflect the sum total of all our hopes, fears and prejudices at the end of each day. Every so often something big comes along that can have very strong influence on the stock market, and the direction the market...

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Is Egypt The First Domino to Fall?

After almost a month of protests and people living in the streets, rocks being thrown, blood being spilled, and many injured, Egyptian President Mubarak finally resigns. There was partying and cheers from the streets all night. The people had spoken ...

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Wasting and Wanting: Our Politicians and Our Needy

In this time of Thanksgiving and the year end holidays, I was quite annoyed by a recent Associated Press article. According to the article, the IRS has determined that it is losing out on about $380 million a year in income taxes when separated or di...

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