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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Now that Rick Santorum has bowed out of the 2012 GOP nomination race, the next matter for front-runner MItt Romney to attend to will be figuring out a running mate. Jeff Greenfield breaks down some wise choices for Romney’s potential running mate. The former governor of Massachusetts is 65 years old, according to ABC News. ...
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 ...
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 ...
It is, perhaps, regrettable that the race for president begins almost before the previous race is over. But, regrettable or not, it is a fact that it does. Long before candidates announce, they are putting together teams of advisers and considering their options. It’s February, 2013. But the race for the White House is on. ...
The country of Israel operates under a parliamentary system of government. In a parliamentary system, if no political party wins a majority of seats in the legislature, then the parties negotiate amongst themselves until some combination of them that cumulatively has enough seats for a majority is able to reach an agreement to come together ...
If you ever looked at Ted Bundy, you would not see the serial killer that has haunted the dreams of the family members of his victims. Ted Bundy was a good looking man, athletic, and charming. His boyish looks do not show what was hidden deep in his troubled mind and the girls that were ...
