Articles for category: Politics

Karla News

Are We Better Off? Bill Clinton’s Speech

Yahoo! News asked voters to respond to Bill Clinton’s address at the Democratic National Convention. Here’s one perspective. “Are we better off than we were four years ago?” This question was posed during President Bill Clinton’s much-anticipated speech at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton answered his own question: “Yes.” I will admit it is so ...

Karla News

My Top 5 Political Pins on Pinterest

The Presidential elections are getting close and we’re starting to see ads on TV, accusations being tossed about on the internet and on all news media. We are being bombarded by factual information and complete fabrications. I don’t know about you but I feel like I’m under informational assault. How do we go about making ...

Karla News

Sorting Political Fact from Fiction

In Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell put a telescreen in every room. The screens can be turned down but not off. They spew propaganda all day every day. Orwell was prescient about some things. While the screens in modern American life do not generally send as well as receive (so far as we know), they are ...

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Republican View of Health Care Reform

On March 21, 2010 The House of Representatives voted 219 to 212 to approve the Health Care Reform Bill. Every Republican along with 34 Democrats voted No. According to the Institute of Medicine of the U. S. National Academies, the United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens ...

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An Explanation of Vice Presidential Succession

Americans have never thought to much about vice presidents. Even today their power is nothing compared to that of the president, and in the earliest years of our nation they had little to do at all. The Constitution provides that when a President dies or is removed from office, the Vice President takes over his ...

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Tigris and Euphrates River Flow

Turkey has been in conflict with Syria and Iraq for quite some time over the Tigris and Euphrates River and who holds the rights to control them. These rivers begin in Turkey, who controls 98% of the water flow. The rivers flow southward towards Syria and Iraq. The Tigris mainly flows from Turkey into Iraq. ...

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Ronald Reagan: His Legacy of Failures

Reagan, had he lived, would be 100 on Sunday, February 6. Many festivities are planned for celebration, including one to be memorialized by Sarah Palin, who wishes to fall heir to the Republican throne in 2012, but contributions aside, in the balance Reagan’s era can be said to have ushered in problems we are facing ...

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Oregon Sorority to Marry Arab Prince

In a nationwide first, an entire sorority at an Oregon University is marrying a single Arab prince in a group wedding this august in a posh Emirates 5 star hotel and they intend to return to Oregon to resume their studies as a family. The Arab prince student happens to have diplomatic immunity so no ...