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1: The Dead Confirm Obama Benefit Details
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead have fleshed out the details regarding their upcoming benefit for the Presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama. As previously reported, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mick... (View article)

2: It's Not Easy Being Green
Life if full of ethical dilemmas, and many of the decisions we make in life contradict themselves. I've realised as I've got older, not to be worried about these contradictions. It would be lovely to live a totally consistent life... (View article)

3: Spain - Women Take Top Positions
The world was robbed by an assasin earlier this year of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, who might well have become Pakistan's leader.There was once a time when having a woman in a powerful political position was unheard of. Those days... (View article)

4: University Embroiled in Debate About Birth Control
It is always funny to me when I read about things that have ballooned into a major controversy. Recnelty, I read that the University of South Carolina is embroiled in a controversy over its promotion of birth control in the form ... (View article)

5: Safe Sex Education in the USA
Sex education in American schools, and especially the teaching of safe sex and contraceptives in sex education classes, is a heavily debated matter in the USA. This debate is centered mainly on whether sex education should focus ... (View article)

6: Safe Sex Lessons in School Continue to Cause Controversy
School systems have long been battling with the topic of safe sex and how to teach it to their students. Some school systems have taken the stance that the only true form of safe sex is to abstain from sex completely. At these s... (View article)

7: Iraq and the Misery Index
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan’s run for the Presidency he created a “Misery Index”. This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as an indicator of how the American peop... (View article)

8: New Defense Secretary Changes Everything – Perhaps
On Election Day, the American people spoke very strongly that the direction the President and the Republican Party was taking America towards, is not the direction the country wanted to go in. Presidents are not oblivious to polls... (View article)

9: Democrats will not win House, Republicans will lose it
Tomorrow is Election Day in the United States. Every member of the House of Representatives is up for re-election, and one third of the United States Senate. It is difficult living in the greatest democracy in 12,000 years of civi... (View article)

10: Internet and Cable TV Shake Up Democracy
Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than 200 years now. Our ... (View article)

11: This is not your dad’s Republican Party anymore
Stock markets are strange because they reflect the sum total of all our hopes, fears and prejudices at the end of each day. Every so often something big comes along that can have very strong influence on the stock market, and the ... (View article)

12: President Bush – Contrasting the decision making skills of JFK and George W. Bush
Presidents of the United States can only make decisions based on the information they are getting from the people and other sources that are available to them. Different Presidents obtain that data flow in different ways. This is ... (View article)

13: North Korea – Yes, you have our attention
North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe that the device was much larger but may hav... (View article)

14: Stock Research – Republican Congress in hot seat
If the Republican Party is able to hold onto its majority in both the House and the Senate in the coming elections, it will be because of the ineptness of the Democrats. The Democrats have become a party without ideas, with an ide... (View article)

15: Mark Foley - Gay Congressman resigns-The Real Deal
Florida Congressman Mark Foley has resigned from Congress amid charges and allegations that he had inappropriate e-mail contacts with a former teenage page in the House of Representatives. So what’s the real deal? What’s really go... (View article)