A reader suggested recently that some of my articles should be submitted to Digg, an online website where readers submit and vote for newsworthy and interesting pieces. The advice was flattering, and indeed it seems that some of what is said here is by all accounts of interest to a broad spectrum of readers, but [...]

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The United States of America is known as the world’s big brother. After the end of cold war and disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), America has been acknowledged as the only superpower in the world. A President, being the head of the country, influences the world’s perception, either for good or [...]

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I used to believe in the American dream when I was young. I do not know what happened to democracy that is supposed to work for all people in our country. I would like to ask our government “when is this democracy really going to work for all people, instead of those who have the [...]

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IntroductionThe United States is commonly classified as a representative democracy. What is that?In a literal sense, democracy means government by the people. The word democracy originated in two Greek roots—demos, meaning “the populace” or “the common people”; and kratia, meaning “rule.” Of course, in large, populous nations, government by all the people is impractical at [...]

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Joe Lanzman has a quiz on the web site Slate (Feb 2 – 2007) to determine if you’re anti-semitic. The quiz appears to have been prompted by a study for the American Jewish Committee written by professor Alvin Rosenfeld which points to an increase in “virulent anti-Zionism in many quarters of the left”.Some Jews believe [...]

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Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was a black man (also named Barack Hussein Obama) born in Africa and his mother was a white woman born in Kansas.Obama’s father and his mother separated and divorced when Obama was a young child. His mother remarried in 1967 when [...]

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THE scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”. Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going. But Barbara Boxer calls the latest news Email-gate. In a controversial talk just days [...]

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August 11, 1971The last skirmish in Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty has ended in defeat, and nobody has any suggestions for new forays.For the first time in many a moon, both liberals and conservatives are stymied for solutions to what many have come to regard as the number-one problem of our age.“Every man according [...]

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