806 articles related to "government"

Should We Worry About Immigrant Assimilation and Education?

Yes, they are important to our future! Many of tomorrow's workers and business owners are the children of today's immigrants. More than 40% of the growth of our labor force in the late 1990s was due to immigrants, and since immigration WIL...

Government  government children parents school immigrants some
As The Illinois Economic Death Spiral Begins, Can The Federal Government Be Far Behind?

Interesting but sad reading from a recent Associated Press report. The article reported that the state of Illinois has now reached the desperation phase of its economic malaise: - The state has not paid many of its bills for months due to shortfall ...

Government  government state income illinois levels taxes
Is There Anything More Disingenuous Than a Whining, Petulant Political Party in America?

Presidential elections provide a lot of humor when you can recognize the joke. Every few days some new, outrageous flap kicks another outrageous flap off of the front page of our nation's daily newspapers. Now the Democrats are all upset that ...

Government  government democrats libby politics
BP Oil Spill, Are You Kidding Me? Put a Plug in It Already!

BP's oil spill in the Gulf is out of control, and after viewing the new digital CNN video of the recently cut well cap, it's obvious to a plumber, and most blue collar tradesmen, their engineers are also miserably incapable of even slowing ...

Government  government spill head ball water
Binocular Trends and Technology

There have been some incredible developments in optical technology in recent years. One of the most interesting new products comes from a company called Torrey Pines Logic. It has been developed in partnership with the United States Navy, and it is c...

Government  government lightspeed device communications navy solutions being
Is Communism Dead Yet?

There are a handful of countries that are still considered communist regimes. Yet communism doesn't really exist. These countries are more like dictatorships with authoritarian type leaders who operate under the very thin veil of non-existent co...

Government  government people chinese communist party control there
The Prison Mirror part of Prison Series

The true measure of social consciousness is prisons. They tell more about society than any travelogue possibly could. They are the product of ignorance as a tradition and undeniable social regression. Send a law breaker to prison and convert him to ...

Government  government society prisons people crime prison
Fair Tax for Free People

The absolute fairest tax on all the free people in the world is zero tax. Who does the emperor tax, his own, or the stranger? If you are paying no taxes, you are free, for what that may be worth. When you pay tax, you are not free; you are someone&a...

Government  government people corporate corporations
Hero of the Quarter - Part II

Many Americans are still familiar, even today, with the devastating worldwide conflicts of the last century, titanic events whose resonance even today affect the worldwide balance of power. Consider, for instance, the situation on the Korean peninsul...

Government  government worldwide intent korea
Man's Rights in Objectivism

One thing that many people agree upon these days is that man possesses rights. What the vast majority of people disagree on is what exactly man's rights are. Objectivism holds that man's rights are individualistic, as in his rights are his,...

Government  government rights right personaposs dissenting upon