883 articles on "government"

Political Satire - "W" - The President Millions of Americans Hate With a Vengeance

From Maine to California, from Florida to Washington, and from North Dakota to Texas, all across the country, there are at least 20, if not 40, million Americans who have hatred for the 43rd President of the United States, a man dubbed "W". From pri...

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The ID Card Revolution

Millions of people in Britain will start receiving their compulsory national identity cards in only four years time under the detailed plans unveiled by the home secretary, David Blunkett, yesterday. Under legislation to be published in January, the ...

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Are The Failed Japanese Government Economic Policies And Obamanomics One and The Same?

Robert Samuelson had an interesting article in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine, "Why Japan Fell And What It teaches Us." Mr. Samuelson reviews how Japan got into its current and long running economic slump, highlights of which include the follo...

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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 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 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 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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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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New Government Set To Reduce Emissions

Twenty government departments and agencies have signed up to a new programme aiming to help them cut their carbon emissions by 10% within a year. The bodies, including the Department of Health, the Ministry of Justice and Department of Energy and Cli...

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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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