Tag: us politics
member name: Duane B.
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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes? It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
The most current statistics indicate that thirty percent of the American adult population have been alcoholics, been dependent on alcohol or abused alcohol in their lifetime. An estimated . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . .
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April 27, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barak Obama's pastor appeared on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS last week. I watched the full hour and found Rev. Wright, a former US Marine who cared for . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --
Are the Democratic candidates going to immolate themselves, and the party, in their desire of being numero uno or will they curb their enthusiasm for the top slot on the November . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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August 31, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
The official report on the Virginia Tech shootings has been published and it contains details of Cho’s mental health history and treatment details. I am a retired therapist that . . .
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January 06, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
Politics has often be referred to as "the art of the possible", but paralleling the growth of extreme and hard line religious factions in many mainstream religions of the . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
All of us have heard about the success of Brazil in developing an ethanol economy based on sugar cane. This year about 85% of the cars manufactured in Brazil will be flex-fuel . . .
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January 25, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
It looks like the $ 150 billion economic stimulus plan agreed to by the White House and Congress will put a maximum of $1,800 into the hands of a married couple with two . . .
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July 01, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
The chief prosecutor of St Louis is preparing to release a report that took two years to develop that may show that convicted murderer Larry Griffin, executed in 1995, was innocent of the crime. . . .
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July 18, 2007 08:58 AM EDT --
Michael Vick, the star quarterback for the NFL Atlanta Falcons, has been indicted by a Federal grand jury in Richmond Virginia for operating an extensive dogfighting operation. These . . .
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August 25, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
FALWELL: A NATION UNDER GOD AGAIN
During the recent CNN series “God’s Warriors” Christiane Amanpour was interviewing Reverend Jerry Falwell. She asked him what his most . . .
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February 24, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
It appears to me, based on the reports of the last few days, that our two Democratic candidate's campaigns are moving toward a win at all costs, take no prisoners approach to winning . . .
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October 17, 2006 08:32 PM EDT --
Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation that would require all girls entering sixth grade next year to be vaccinated with against HPV. Michigan has exemptions from the vaccination laws for . . .
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February 06, 2007 10:29 PM EST --
The Tax Foundation, a Washington D.C. nonpartisan tax research organization, is concerned that we have a growing number of lower incomes individuals and families in our nation that are not paying any, . . .
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February 28, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
A twelve-year-old Maryland boy died from complications of an abscessed tooth when the bacteria from the tooth spread to his brain. The boy was hospitalized due to the brain infection and . . .
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July 09, 2007 09:41 PM EDT --
The City of Seattle has developed a very innovative program for a group of 75 homeless, hard core, alcoholics that has been labeled “bunks for drunks”. The city used . . .
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August 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Sometimes just reading the individual captions of articles and columns in my local newspaper can be either informative or raise troubling questions. Today’s Sunday edition of my . . .
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