Politics & Government Articles

Conservative spin-doctors have most Americans believing that they reduce our National Debt. Nothing could be further from the truth. The exact opposite is true. Every Democratic President since Harry Truman has reduced the National Debt, while only Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, in his first term, reduced the US National Debt.

A media-hungry police chief in Portland, ME sacrificed a mentally-ill, homeless man on the altar of his ascending career...As a result, Brandon Boone Drewry will spend the rest of his life in prison for a sexual assault on a crack whore for which their was no physical evidence...

We are witnessing a struggle over money play out on a national scale. The political maneuvering in Washington and in state houses across the country are just the opening salvoes. Demonstrations in Wisconsin are the harbinger of battles yet to be fought over the fiscal realities the nation faces. Management, or rather mismanagement, of our national wealth may prove to be the one means to tear the Republic asunder.

The UK Prime Minister Mr Cameron has asccused former Labour governement ministers of not revealing the full truth relating to the early release of the Lockerbie bomber.

In this age when individual achievement trumps social conscience, Newt Gingrich emerges as a star...His latest appeal for prison reform hardly moves beyond dumping prisoners out on the streets of cash-starved law-and-order states...

Who was it who released the Lockerbie Bomber. Why was the Bomber released early? Did the Labour government assist in this matter? Did Gordon Brown do all in his power to help release the bomber?

Tony Blair was recalled by the Iraq enquiry because the account he had provided last year had been contradicted by the information provided by other witnesses and official documentation.

Freedom of Religion is the first of the Freedoms mentioned in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. We Americans had good reason for putting it there! European colonization of North America was largely driven by religious warfare. It is very likely that a majority of Americans are descended from peoples who were seeking Freedom of Religion. I know my ancestors were.

Revolutions are the stuff of appealing to the discomfort of the masses...Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, the darlings of the Tea Party movement, have long since moved away from political conviction to expediency...The author draws the distinction with characters from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities."

Migrant workers will fill UK jobs. depite a limit on their employment being introduced. An annual cap will come into force in April 2011.However the limit will not apply to any migrant worker already in the UK.

New Labour shadow chancellor failed to get his expenses correct. In May 2005, when Ed Balls became the MP for Normanton, his wife Miss Cooper "flipped" her second home to the family house she shared with her husband and their three children in south London. They both began claiming a half share of the £1,466 monthly mortgage interest, a sum of £733 each compared with the £530 that she had been paying in Yorkshire.

The five Freedoms of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States are the essence of the strength of the United States. Whenever any of our thousands of religious, ethnic, national, social, political and many other interest groups comes up with a bad idea, these Freedoms allow the other groups to beat it out of the system by vigorous debate. Good ideas are adopted by all!

Over and over again, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee hangs onto old worn-out theologies that fail the test of scholarship...He is a Christian Zionist who draws the national boundaries of Israel according to God's promise to Abraham, when all the time God's promise to Abraham included the likes of Mike Huckabee...Huckbee is not only a danger to the future of the United States; he is a danger to the faithful of the Kingdom of God...

Maybe one of the well lectured subject matters in a grade school Science class, then and at present, is global warming in relation to a more expansive topic, i.e. ozone level depletion. The central principle is that universal heating is a reason for the diminution of one of the Earth's essential levels, which is the level.

Is quality or quantity more important when it comes to job creation in the United States? New studies reveal that while the number of job openings may be heading in the right direction, the types of jobs becoming available aren't the best. Find out more!

The legal gun owner in Tucson was indeed extremely lucky! He left his weapon in its holster, and thereby avoided two potentially tragic mistakes. If he had started firing, what would have happened? Would you do the right thing in such an event?

The Labour party seems to have lost its way under the new leadership of Ed Miliband. He beat his brother David by a very narrow margin and it would appear that his brother David would have been a much better choice.

Small towns off the beaten track in Maine - a place where there are indeed few tracks - are desperate for economic development opportunities...The little Town of Milo, Maine, at the confluence of three rivers, has been especially hard hit...Their solution? A small, private gambling emporium and a private prison...The success of one inevitably will advance the other...

The uncommon sense, "in these times that try men's souls" is to discipline ourselves, rein ourselves in, sacrifice and endure the pain. "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." The days of the American empire are passed. We must make the hard choices to restore fiscal discipline and clip the wings of gluttonous opportunists. Uncommon measures are demanded of a free people to right our course. Let us not fade from this task.

The Labour party failed to secure a working coalition with the Liberal Democrats but many doubt that they really tried. It is very doubtfull if a coalition would have worked for for two main reasons. The first one is that the two parties if combined did not have a working majority. The second one is that as a pre condition for a coalition the Labour leader Brown would have had to resign.