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Amateur Writer, Teacher, Math Tutor.

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Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 Would Hillary Clinton be running for president today if she weren't married to former president Bill Clinton?: 1 of 17
Hillary Rodham Clinton would be nowhere if she had not been the spouse of the forty-second president of the United States. That conclusion comes very easy when one simply reads her biography and notices some of the curious decisions she has made.One in a series of those decisions was her 1975 wedding to a fellow law student s... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) Should senators and congressmen have a term limit?: 2 of 28
America's biggest political problem is the career politician.Usually it is a lawyer who runs for a local office and climbs the ladder to the state level and then on to senator, congressman, or some other national office. Once in place, they are anchored there until death, or, so it seems.Career politicians care about power, a... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Travel: 2 of 20
INCIDENT AT CONFUSION PASS The odometer straddled eighty as the white sedan cruised westward on the remotetwo lane highway. Isolation was never a concern for the driver, for it was an emotion he was used to. Savoring in the euphoria of being under nature's magnificent bowl of the sky, a distant sign post slowly magnified as ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Soccer How will Beckham impact American soccer?: 6 of 45
This past August 9th, RFK Stadium was sold out for a MLS Soccer match, a fact that is almost unheard of for the games of home team D. C. United. What was the reason why so many turned out? They wanted to see one man. David Beckham. His presence, as a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy, tells the world that Beckham has already i... More..
Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History The assassination of J. F. Kennedy: 3 of 20
November 22, 2007 marks the 44th anniversary of President John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas. There maybe no single event in American History that has fueled as much controversy and misinformation as the death of our 32nd president.The findings of the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone a... More..
Politics, News & Issues > International Politics (Other) The world and its presidents: 11 of 68
GEORGE W. BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT? FAR FROM IT!George W. Bush has now left the White House and is now enjoying his retirement. The American far political left has lost their punching bag. Many in that crowd have labeled Bush 'the worst president ever.' This is another of a series of their knee-jerk reactions. If these hard c... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 Senator McCain: Not my choice for president: 6 of 30
The Republican Party is on the verge of making the mistake of selecting Senior Arizona Senator John McCain as its 2008 nominee. If this occurs, it is almost certain that McCain and the GOP will go down in flames in November.It is hard to label the Arizona Senator a Republican. He certainly is not a conservative. His image wil... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Facing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church: 2 of 10
My wonderful parents raised their three children Roman Catholic, as it was their duty to. I went to parochial schools for most of my life and I was caught in the middle of Pope John XXIII's Vatican II reforms. That spanned the old catechism of holding a priest in higher regard that my father in second grade, to a high school ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Football Who is a better quarterback: Peyton Manning or Tom Brady?: 6 of 25
I have always believed that rating quarterbacks in the National Football League is almost completely a subjective endeavor. The league has devised a complicated system which relies on percentages of completions, touchdown passes, interceptions and yard gained. That rating does not account for wins, or even Super Bowl victorie... More..
Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Will Bill O'Reilly help shape the 2008 presidential election?: 2 of 7
At the Daily KOS Convention in the first weekend of August, current Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton defended fellow candidate Chris Dodd and her communications director, Howard Wolfson, for comments made on separate appearances on"The O'Rielly Factor." The context of the New York Senator's words underscores the reason... More..