Holding Politicians Responsible For Their Irresponsible Statements About Iraq
Few decisions made in Washington are more monumental than the decision to go to war with another sovereign nation. The decision to engage in hostilities where civilians will be killed and U.S. servicemen and women will be separated from their families-many never to return-is the gravest that a president can ...
Plan 9 From Iraq
I recently compared the war in Iraq to a bad Hollywood movie: green-lit for all the wrong reasons, way over budget and with no end in site. Except this is a b-movie where the horrors come off the screen and unleash hell in reality. Even Saddam mocks us from the ...
Putting Troops on the Border
Millions dead from the initial impact, millions more will die in the months and years to come. This is the scene from ground zero of a nuclear attack. Our future can hold this and much more. What once seemed like something imperceivable has inevitably become a very plausible scenario. Something, ...
Big Changes in Pension Plans, but Long Term Care Untouched
There are big changes coming to retirement plans.
In August 2006, President Bush signed into law the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA). This law affects both employee funded plans such as 401(k)s and traditional defined benefit pension plans.
Congress was partially motivated by the looming crisis of the Pension Benefit Guaranty ...
News or Propaganda - Following the Finances
In the last article we showed you how to explore the order of the various segments, of programming on network news, and in the media in general. We discussed examining the narrative, (the segment as presented) and how we could find the underlying narrative, (the covert story or point of ...
The Career in Politics
Why do candidates for Congress spend millions of dollars for an office that pays $169,200.00? Between 2004 and 2006, members of Congress' net worth increased an average of 84% - book advances, speaking engagements, stock and land deals, privileged mortgages, etc.The United States is no longer the representative democracy our ...
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