806 articles related to "government"

Another Month, Another Doomed Economic Stimulus Program

According to an Associated Press article today, the political class is about to pass a $30 billion piece of legislation that is supposed to jump start the small business market and get the economy moving again. Components of the legislation include t...

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Is Fidel Castro Dead And Has A Stunt?

Fidel Castro has died and has a stunt? Since his illness, when he withdraw from the government and give it to her brother Raul, Fidel Castro has been rarely seen. Leaders and 'progressists' intellectuals who have gone to see him, they foun...

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Affirmative Action, Is It Good Or Bad?

This article does not discuss the legalities of affirmative action, I leave that to the courts. This article is solely about the philosophy of affirmative action. According to Wikipedia, affirmative action "is a policy or a program promoting the re...

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The November Fix To Our Economic Policies?

In case you haven't noticed, we are in an economic crisis in this country, and around the whole world. The trillions of dollars that our government poured into failing companies was supposed to stimulate our economy. It almost looks like it has ...

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The Bitch and the Vague . . .

Well Darlings, With apologies to Haig & Haig, the oldest distillers of scotch whisky and now a part of Diageo plc, for coming close to using one of their most famous advertising slogans, but lately the message from both fellow politicians and the me...

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The Twilight Zone World Of Joe Biden

The Vice President has always been good for a quote, or in many cases, a misquote, when it comes to explaining the reality of our world. However, many times you wonder if he and the rest of us are living in the same world and reality or we are stuck ...

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America Beware, Hillary Clinton May Run For President

America is the greatest country in the world. Our citizens are caring, generous, trusting and forgiving. Those are some of the traits that make our country so great and so strong. Those traits can also be some of our biggest weaknesses. We are always...

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Censorship, Our Enemy

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The...

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Anarchy: Law, Order, and Authority

The Beginning If a group of people were to live on an island, who would govern who, how, and why? If person A suspected person B of possessing a deadly weapon (if this were a crime), then how could we justify person A searching person B? Whatever re...

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Speaking at Local Government Meetings

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell. I have read opinion polls that find most people fear public speaking more than they fear death. This fear obviously plays into the fact that few people appear to speak b...

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