883 articles on "government"

The Obama Administration 2010 Vs. George Orwell "1984"

I cannot help feeling that the Obama administration, and the entire American political class, has some frightening similarities to the dysfunctional and totalitarian government that George Orwell foresaw in his classic novel, "1984." The loss of free...

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Lito Atienza - Saving Lives Of Neglected Children

Lito Atienza is presently a part of the number of candidates who will take part in the elections for Manila mayor. These Manila elections, yet once more, would be a trial of the aptitude of the discernment of the electorate to pick a candidate who is...

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What Is Capitalism?

Capitalism as defined by Dictionary.com gives the impression that individuals and corporations run the economy by producing, distributing, and exchanging wealth. This is a partly true, partly untrue definition. Capitalism is an economic system, and i...

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It's Time for a Budget Surplus Again

A showdown is looming in Washington. And it's all about debt. Just to put this into perspective, our national debt stands at about $14 trillion. According to the national debt clock on brilling.com, the debt is $14,107,455,627,940.78, and the e...

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Cory Lidle - What Really Happened and Why?

Cory Lidle and Tyler Stanger, his flight instructor crashed into a high rise apartment building this week. What does his death teach us about good solid decision making in our own lives. First of all, accidents resulting in death in private plane acc...

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Illegal Immigration And The Catholic Church

I am a Catholic. I am also, however, against illegal immigration. I believe that we should clamp down harder on illegal immigrants and we should do more to protect our borders. Churches, whether they be Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or other, however,...

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Turning of the Tide?

The recent midterm election has certainly passed with some interesting results. The Democrats, against the odds, took control of both houses of congress. However, the results of many bills have come up as a mixed bag of conservative and liberal choic...

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The History of Local American Government

From the 1830s through the first two decades of the twentieth century, urban government in America witnessed a steady evolution of "machine politics" or what James MacGregor Burns refers to as "transactional politics" (Burns, 1978; Tichy & Devanna, 1...

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Are Fidel Castro's Days Numbered

The Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making attempts to drag his country out of the guagmire he has landed it in since rejecting adopting market economic principles when its sponsor, the Soviet Union, fell apart in 1991. Even though his way of doing it -...

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It's Time for Government Reform

March 11, 2005It’s time for Government reform on local, state and federal levels! The country is bankrupt! America doesn’t have any money. 6/2004Federal Website, I quote "National Debt was $7,217,027,211,368.81. A working persons'sha...

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