Articles for category: Politics

Karla News

The Importance of the Sixth Amendment

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which the Anti-Federalists required in order for the states not in favor of the Constitution to ratify the document. All of these amendments are important, as they insure that we have rights, and those rights are clearly spelled out. The sixth amendment establishes ...

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The Third Party Presidential Candidates Opinions on Abortion

If you are looking for a Third Party Candidate with a policy on abortion, you will not have much of a choice. There are four Third Party Candidates who have their position on abortion on their web sites. All of them advocate the Federal Government not being involved in any abortion issue, with thought ranging ...

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Interventionism Vs. Isolationism

International relations sees two typical approaches taken by countries, interventionist or isolationist. There are some countries that, during a certain time period, are involved in everything and quick to get involved and other countries that are the opposite and wish to only keep to themselves and not be involved. These different methods change between countries ...

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The Slave Mentality

Are There Any Similarities found in the Mindsets of Southern Slaves and Today’s African-American Americans? Many within the African-American community continue to talk about a phenomenon called “the slave mentality.” It’s a very controversial topic that’s discussed during African-American forums, in African-American media outlets, and at just about any gathering where the attendees are all ...

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Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson: Out of Nowhere to Somewhere

Fred Thompson hasn’t won anything yet except possibly the attention of a lot of political nay sayers. Still in the last month his entry into the political campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency in 2008 , Fred Thompson has dispatched those peddling conventional wisdom and positioned himself smack in the middle of ...

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Obama’s “No Earmarks” Promise Broken

” The truth is, our earmark system in Washington is fraught with abuse. It badly needs reform – which is why I didn’t request a single earmark last year, why I’ve released all my previous requests for the public to see, and why I’ve pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I am ...

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Anthony Weiner’s Wife Huma Mahmood Abedin

Anthony Weiner’s Wife! Huma Mahmood Abedin You will find the Wikipedia account of her as interesting as I did. Huma Mahmood Abedin, born in 1976, is an aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton who served as traveling chief of staff and “body woman” during Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. Abedin, ...

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2012 Presidential Race for Dummies

Welcome to the 2012 presidential race for dummies. There’s more happening in 2012 than US citizens watching their clocks on December 21st. But what is this thing called the 2012 presidential race you ask? Why, it is going to be the most important race America has ever seen. Every four years American citizens vote for ...

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The Anchor Baby Debate

The most recent conflict on immigration reform is one concerning what are referred to as anchor babies, those children born to parents here illegally who then are accorded citizenship based on an interpretation, however discombobulated, of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Statistics indicate that about 1 in 12 births in the US yearly ...