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Starving The Beast At Social Security

If President Bush cuts the federal work force without cutting layers of middle management Social Security managers must learn to say, “We haven’t gotten to that yet.” Social Security employees have two functions: give people what they...
Dennis LaurionSeptember 26, 2005

A Response To An Article On Net: The Mind Of A Child Molester

http://www.progressiveu. … d-molester Amanda, GOOD insightYes, each of us is different; different in background; different in how we would react; different in our views of right and wrong.
Daniel J. M. GalpinSeptember 10, 2007

WE THE PEOPLE... What Does It Really Mean?

As a child growing up in America I was taught from a young age that our nation was a nation ruled by the PEOPLE. I was told we elect representatives to serve us in political office and they are to do the will of the PEOPLE.
Daniel J. M. GalpinJuly 21, 2007

Heal Our Republic: Change Our Electoral System

Consider the presidential election system we have today: Every state has a number of electors, equal to their amount of representatives and senators, who vote for the President of the United States.
Jason VinesFebruary 17, 2006

Origin of US Military: A Tradition of Honor, Loyalty and Courage

During the Colonial Period, when whites battled between Indians, the Pequot, a warlike tribe that settled in the center along the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut, against New England settlers, and because of the struggle Governor John...
Johnny BladeFebruary 15, 2006

Contenders for Iraq and the Potential for Civil War

Iraq stands at the junction of three different and competing cultures for the control of the country. Kurds, Shia and Sunni Arabs all want to control their own affairs and that of the Iraqi state.
Murad AliOctober 28, 2005

Shipping Containers for Emergency Housing

Natural disasters leave victims who continue to suffer long after the media turns its focus elsewhere. People who lose their homes and all of their possessions may feel lucky to be alive, but they need a place where to continue to live.
Cornelia MyersDecember 12, 2005

Economic Treason!

America, the home of the free, the home of grand opportunity and the chance to chase one’s dream no matter who you are or where you come from. This wonderful land of our forefathers, land defended by those before us, those who died to protect...
Daniel J. M. GalpinSeptember 06, 2007

Taliban Infiltrates South Dakota Legislature

Where are the last vestiges of Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders hiding? Are they cowering in caves near the Pakistani border? Perhaps they own a condo complex in Karachi. More likely they are on a Dude Ranch in America’s Heartland.
Nola L. KelseyMarch 17, 2006

Rush Limbaugh's The Way Things Ought To Be (Book Review)

Few books have rocked the publishing world like Rush Limbaugh's "The Way Things Ought To Be" (which he wrote by utilizing "talent on loan from God"...) This book, along with author's daily radio program, literally...
Britt GilletteAugust 30, 2006