883 articles on "government"

The Fault In Self-Government: The Self

With each succeeding poll measuring Americans' trust in institutions the elements of government sink to new lows. As we move toward the 2010 mid-term elections we are seeing a groundswell of anti-incumbent fever. Something is wrong; something is...

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Leadership and Perception

Leaders lead and followers follow, right? What if, as a leader, you believed you were leading but no one was following? What if your employees believed they were being led but in reality there was no leadership? We like to believe we are effective an...

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Ur-bin Legend

I may be repulsed at the deeds orchestrated by Osama bin Laden... But I'm even more repulsed at the ineptitude displayed in the attempts to stop him and his cause. I mean, the guy's a murderous criminal. He's an anti-Muslim, as any c...

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Cities, States and Others Step up Action on Climate Change, Despite Federal Reluctance

Last year, Pentagon defense adviser Andrew Marshall issued a harsh warning of the consequences of climate change: mass chaos, national security crises and food shortages. If climate change occurs abruptly, the report declared, there could be a catast...

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The Energy Crisis : Headlines in the 60's and 70's

All the rage in the revolutionary years of the 1960's and 1970's were the smaller, more compact vehicles. It's the time during which we saw the first emergence of awareness of our planet, what we were doing to it and the dawn of enviro...

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Still Another Look At Global Warming

David Stipp of Fortune has referred to climate change as "the mother of all national security issues (2004)." I see no reason to disagree, since as explained in my new textbook (2007), a peaking of global oil production in the near future could be la...

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Government's Quandry - to Ban or Regulate Online Gambling

Ever since the first online casinos started taking bets in 1997, governments around the world have had to consider how they are going to deal with the internet gambling phenomenon. And while legislative approaches adopted by different countries have ...

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Worse than tsunami, trade protectionism hurts third world citizens

by Dr. Eric SchansbergLibertarian Writers' Bureauhttp://www.writersbureau.orgLast Thursday, I was heartened to read the news that my church, Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY, had collected $732,000 from its members (beyond its weekly...

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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 ...

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Innovations to Drive Japanese Fuel Cell Market

Japanese government has recognized the fuel cell and hydrogen technology to be one of the most important R&D areas in order to build low-carbon society in the world. In order to commercialize fuel cell and hydrogen technologies as well as to create n...

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