How many people do you know who think their Congressperson has the answers to providing health care in America?  Or, their Senator?  George W. Bush?   Barack Obama or  Hillary Clinton?  Or, for that matter, any politician?  Do they really have the answers? If they can’t do it, then how about the politicians in Canada, or Great Britain?  [...]

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 There is a psychological concept known as the primacy and recency effect. In layman’s terms, it is the “first and last” effect. Basically, messages we hear first are stored in our long-term memory. And messages we hear later go into short-term memory and can be accessed shortly after their occurrence. Clearly, this effect will be [...]

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The campaign of Republican John McCain has just released two web videos which highlight what the campaign feels is a national media bias in favor of Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election. It is asking people to vote for their favorite video.This McCain campaign video release contest comes at the end of a [...]

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In 2004, for “The Very First Time” in my life, I felt an investment in the political process because I did not want another four years of a man I despised; a man who had destroyed our Nation’s respectful and credible standing in the World. I had always been an unaffiliated voter; however, I had [...]

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IntroductionColonialism is a system in which a state claims sovereignty over territory and people outside its own boundaries ; or a system of rule which assumes the right of one people to impose their will upon another (Brett, 1973). During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rich, powerful states, including Britain and other European countries, owned [...]

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From the broadly concept of democracy an assessment questionnaire is formed. It contains four components and each of them contains a number of questions. The first component has sections on nationhood and citizenship; the rule of law; civil and political rights; economic and social rights. The second has sections on free and fair elections; the [...]

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Many people wonder why governments tend to spend so much money. Almost everyone has realized that the governments spend lots of money on various projects. Governments engage in many expensive endeavors that have little use and/or have little effectiveness. For example, the United States government spends trillions of dollars every year.Unfortunately, taxpayers have to foot [...]

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Yesterday was Super Tuesday, the largest to date with 24 states holding primaries or caucuses on the same day. In a year that’s probably seen more musicians come out to raise their voice on behalf of a presidential candidate, the question we want to explore here is: Do musicians backing a political candidate have an [...]

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T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire with large natural gas holdings, is spending more than $50 million to convince US politicians and the public that natural gas should become a transportation fuel and should be priced much higher. Gasoline costs ten times as much as natural gas when compared on energy content. To make his case, [...]

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The Democrats have shot themselves in the foot and their political party name may turn out to be the opposite of what will be practiced beforre they can elect a nominee for the ‘08 elections. Egalitarianism does have its downsides. If we divided up ALL the resources on the planet and gave everyone an equal [...]

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