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A former member of Sarah Palin’s staff and reportedly a close member of the inner circle is about to release a tell all book that has been called, by all accounts, controversial and scathing at best. That book, culled from a huge number of emails that were sent to and…
I know that, just think of the World Trade Center disaster in 2001, gives us an uneasy feeling of insecurity and vulnerability. This was the first time they were attacked on our soil. But what if it is not terrorists, caused by attacks?
There are many theories out there as…
Every so often, we hear on the news or know someone that is a victim of bullycide. Well, recently, President Obama did a bullying speech and now has created an anti bullying campaign in effort to help stop bullying.
What is bullycide?
Bullycide is basically someone who comits sucide in…
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, his wife Suzanne and their two sons as well as a business associate are likely to be facing a variety of charges including corruption as well as murder in the deaths of over eight hundred protesters. The Prosecutor General will likely seek the charges of…
Birth certificates give us important information and help us to prove without a doubt our lineage, our full names, place of birth, our birth date. They also prove our parents names and can also include the signature of a witness.
President Barrack Hussein Obama's place of birth has come into…
Clarence Darrow once said, "I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
I am writing an obituary for Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden is dead and while I was not involved with his death, I have experienced remorse that he was not…
Boston Globe AP Article October 16, 2011
An interesting article published in the newspaper above had me chuckling. Mr. Axelrod one of President Obama's advisors stated in an interview on ABC's "This Week," "The GOP doesn't understand the Wall Street's protests show that American wants a fair shake".
They Understand…
Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been barely holding on to control of that nation for several months, despite wide spread calls for his removal. There had been some interludes toward Russia as the last hope for remaining in power. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has decried the NATO missions over Tripoli…
Should Donald Trump actually make a serious bid for the Republican Presidential nomination, or not? Trump will make his announcement sometime in June, however, according to the most recent poll numbers, he won’t be taken seriously, even among those in his own party. The CNN/Opinion Research poll showed that while…
Are media stories about postpartum making you nuts? Marie Osmond and her Brother Donny are back singing together and they are all over the media of late. It reminds me when, about 12 years ago, when Marie Osmond came out with a story of her postpartum plight, which was the…
Well folks, the proverbial snowball is going to continue to keep rolling down the mountain. With the debt ceiling agreement deadline looming, it looks like the Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid along with Presient Barack Obama have finally caved, and have agreed, along with the Senate Republicans to raise the…
Osama Bin Laden's $50 million dollar reward
Now that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, what is going to happen to the $50 million dollar reward. Well, maybe nothing will happen with it. Jay Carney, a white House spokesman, said that no one took the proper steps to be eligible…
In May 2010 Charles Hendry was appointed as Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and now presides over the biggest decisions that affect the renewable energy sector. Finn Langley talks to him about conflicting manifestos, coalition’s plans for renewable energy and his personal motivations. …
The economy of the US and many other area’s in the world is at a low. Often when strapped with hard times, its possible for some to reflect upon the finer things in life, things that money can’t buy: Having a family gathering, taking a trip to the river, fishing…
Our political arena could benefit with a massive research into finding a way to control its recent influx of tics. Two namely tics are; poli-tics and luni-tics, they're destroying our government and its professional operation that we used to be accustomed to.
Some might blame this awful epidemic of tics…
Not sure if you all heard the latest news, but Groupon has just announced that they are not going to allow The Donald to post Apprentice site ads on Groupon after a slew of customer complaints, and for a better word, an uprising.
Who blames them....
Well, not Jerry Seinfield.…
Entitlement Programs: At what point does the helping hand become an enabling hand?
“If you give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day, if you teach a man how to fish you will feed him for a lifetime.” Working first hand in the legal field with…
You’ve got Credit. A Visa, a MasterCard, that Home Equity Line of Credit you’ve had for years.
Obama has credit too. His is called the debt ceiling.
You’ve got a perfect credit score of 800, although you know it doesn’t deserve to be that high
The USA has a triple…
The U.S. economy is still suffering in the recession. Job Losses are at an all time high in the last two years. Because of this, Americans are struggling more than ever. They are facing bankruptcy and foreclosure. As of now, the economy has still not fully recovered and we majorly…
July 4th, Independence Day commenced when 13 fractious colonies decided to sunder the greatest empire on earth... challenging every verity of governance in order to raise up a pristine nation where "all men are created equal."
From this signal phrase, Godlike in its ringing clarity and unanswerable in its adamantine…
Had President Clinton vetoed legislation proposed by the Wilderness Society, we would now be pumping a million barrels of oil each day. Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) could get new oil flowing in 5 years, if the number of environmental lawsuits can be minimized.
ANWR was hotly…
By:
Harris Laing in
Politics
Dec 26, 2013
The Congressional Super Committee, the bipartisan group charged with finding a way to balance the federal budget is approaching its November deadline but is no closer to a working deal that both sides can agree on. Officially, the goal was to slash over a trillion dollars from the already inflated…
By:
amie nogrady in
Politics
Nov 19, 2011
I am a democrat and a liberal. I believe in humanity. I believe in decency to our fellow man/woman. I believe there is room in the world for all of us. I am dismayed by the inhumanity to man/woman I see around me. I cannot believe the hypocrisy that roils…
By:
Rachel Johnson in
Politics
Aug 09, 2012
“To thine own self be true”; but how many of us are? This question probes the very essence of who we are and what we do. Be we political animals or corrupted youths, this is a question we must ask ourselves if capable of doing so; Are we true to…
One of the main conditions of participation of A. Lukashenko in summit “Eastern Partnership” in Riga is the most worrying and discussed question in Europe – the discharge of all political prisoners in Belarus. Nowadays many of them are already discharged. 2010 elections` former presidential candidate Nikolay (Mikola) Statkevich is…
Applying for the Democratic nomination for president before the election Hillary Clinton has promised Americans a fairer share of the American prosperity. She joked that it would be "the youngest woman president" in US history.
During his first big rally on Roosevelt Island in New York, overlooking the skyscrapers of…
There have been a lot of documentaries on the History, Discovery, Animal Planet, and even the SyFy Channel about the year 2012. There have been half a dozen movies made (mostly bad) about the “end of times” as predicted by the ancient Mayans.
This weekend I saw a special about…
By:
L M Laguardia in
Politics
Feb 10, 2012
So this is interesting…the Canadian government is seeking to improve relations with China so they “secure” a couple of pandas for the Toronto zoo and then ship them over to the Calgary zoo.
Both Pandas are on loan to Canada for 10 years and, I’m sure, will receive many visitors…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Libya's capital city, Tripoli for the first upper level meeting in that country since the end of Moammar Gadhafi's rule. That government ended at the end of summer after forty two years in power. Gadhafi, his son, a brother in law and…
The numbers have been known for some time, the income gap continues to widen between the rich and the poor. Since this is a known fact, it seems that common sense would come into the equation. With this being the case, it is very apparent that the wealthy does not…
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