806 articles related to "government"

Bad Laws Behaving Badly

One of the biggest government myths that Americans need to overcome before they can restore their freedom is that when politicians pass a law, then all is well in the world, the assumptions being that 1) the intended consequences of the law will actu...

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The President Obama Complaining, "They Talk About Me Like A Dog"

"Wag the Dog" is a euphemism for when a politician in trouble wages a war or does some other diversion to get the heat off his back. President Obama, it appears to me, is doing a "Wag the Mosque" as a smokescreen for a tanking deflation economy durin...

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Don't Mess with Texas. Or Some Parts of Texas, At Least.

I was lucky enough to be evacuated by family, escaping Lake Ponchatrain's water before it flooded into the city. If not, then I fear I might've ended up bused, or flown, to Texas. Out of all the many other cities and states that displaced N...

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Federal Agent and Intelligence Agency Analyst Jobs Move Toward a Southern Border Focus

Recent media reports have brought attention to the U.S. border with Mexico and the crisis brought about by an exploding and increasingly dangerous drug trade. Examples of this crisis include countless reports of local Mexican officials being murdered...

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Middle East Peace Is An Oxymoron

The phrase Middle East and the word peace are so contradictory that when put together they become an oxymoron. An oxymoron, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, is "a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combin...

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World Federation of Trade Unions Calls for April 1st Action

Unions affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) met in Lisbon in December to discuss the world financial crisis and advance a set of demands. The assembled WFTU affiliates set Wednesday, April 1, 2009 as an international date for wor...

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Back In Time

Let's go back in time...it's 1967 and the headlines back then read:US Airforce intensifies the bombing of North Vietnam... U.S. plans to start missile net...1967 Pan Am Games...13 US helicopters are shot down in Vietnam...Writer and histori...

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Amendment One Vote NO

We’ve heard the made up speeches “we’ll Stop Nafta,Create Jobs, Cut Taxes, Balance the Budget,Reduce Drug Costs, cut insurance costs, fix Social Security and Work for the Taxpayers"! Yeah, right!What they fail to tell you is all the monies take...

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State Governments: Immobile, Going Broke and High On Wine

Many state and local governments are heading towards financial insolvency as a result of their state employee pension and retiree medical liabilities. Consider an article from the October 18, 2010 issue of Businessweek magazine: - According to a stu...

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I'm Tired... And That Is Why I Voted Republican For The First Time Ever

Earlier this week I submitted my mail-in ballot for the pertinent Florida political races that affect me. Up until that time, I took pride in truthfully stating that I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life (I am 57 years old...

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