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Politics, News & Issues > International Politics (Other) The decline of the US as a world power: 2 of 47
John Stossel's essay titled "The Sky's Not Falling" highlights the hyperbole regarding the subprime mortgage and credit "crises" politicians and talking heads are using to scare the people into giving government more power. But the very problems Stossel points out with ever-growing government threaten to make the sky fall. I ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Should the federal government give assistance to American auto makers?: 1 of 17
A video floating around the internet shows a state of the art Brazilian auto plant capable of producing 5 different models of cars so production could instantly be switched to respond to dynamic market conditions. Assembly lines for suppliers integrated into the plant seamlessly insert sub-assemblies into the main assembly li... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Archives US elections 2008: Hillary and Barak trade punches: 1 of 14
Democrats are famous for stealing elections, most famously when some Texas counties and Chicago rigged their vote counts to deliver the 1960 election for JFK. In 2000, Al Gore tried to use the courts to overturn the will of the Florida voters, and a circus of court cases tried to write new law to deliver the state for Gore. F... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Can Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki bring stability to Iraq?: 1 of 9
It's time for the Maliki government to go.Out of the many grave mistakes the Bush administration made in Iraq, probably the worst was the race to empower an elected Iraqi government before we had established security, basic services and built democratic institutions from the ground up. In a lawless environment and with no his... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Climate change is unavoidable: 2 of 16
The world's political elite recently descended on Bali for a UN Climate Change Conference in so many private jets that the Bali airport couldn't accommodate them all. Many of the private jets were forced to travel on to Indonesia to park. The carbon footprint for each delegate at the conference is equal to 20,000 cars for 1 y... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Reflections on Al Gore's legacy: Visionary or hypocrite?: 2 of 16
The parallels between the medieval Catholic Church and Al Gore's modern religion, the Church of Man-Made Global Warming, get more pronounced every day. Al Gore's Gulfstream private jet surpasses the Pope-mobile for Church business travel, and his Tennessee mansion with heated pool uses more energy than the Sistine Chapel. All... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Europe Is a Cold War between the East and the West on the verge of repeating itself?: 2 of 14
In the tradition of Stalin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has played President Bush and western political elites for useful idiots. In just the latest example, after Bush treated Putin to a fishing trip in Kennebunkport, Maine, Putin returned home and immediately ordered the resumption of long range bomber flights to test ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 Why Sarah Palin is so successful: 1 of 7
So many conservative writers and pundits have compared Sarah Palin to Ronald Reagan lately, I wonder if they actually remember Reagan. More likely, conservatives, like the rest of the country, are so disgusted with the Bush/McCain/liberal wing of the Republican party, they're overwhelmed to see a true conservative in anticipa... More..
Education > Secondary School Issues Vouchers as a method of improving US education: 1 of 7
Because school voucher programs empower students to leave failing schools for quality schools, Ohio students and children across the country are getting better educations. Faced with new competition that government schools have never known, many failing schools have improved to stay competitive. Because of this success, Arizo... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Is the media showing bias in favor of Obama?: 1 of 6
The staff of Slate magazine, owned by the Washington Post, supports Obama over McCain by 55 to 1. No wonder articles on Slate read like Obama campaign material. Rumors that Slate's staff hung Sarah Palin in effigy, beat her like a pinata, then burned her in a pagan ritual on Halloween have yet to be confirmed.But that describ... More..