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Earmark Reform Is Needed

By: Eshwarya Patel | 2010-04-04 | Politics
Today, business has included individual members sharing out favors in appropriations, and further bills through earmarks. The Americans should have a right to know more than who funded special interest legislation. We need earmark reform that puts an end to particular interest earmarking, and offers solutions to stop the practice of earmark abuse. read more

Earmarks - Ten U.S. House Members Looking Out For Taxpayers

By: Mick McNesby | 2010-04-04 | Politics
In 2005, congress indulged itself with over 13,000 earmarks. In 2006, a few courageous House members and senators got the number down to less than 10,000, still outrageous. However last years efforts shone so much attention on the practice, it even had the King of Pork, Senator Robert Byrd discussing some of the negatives. read more

Elimate Your Flakes…with Girls!

By: GabrielAngelo | 2010-12-26 | Relationships
Got Head & Shoulders…? Because you won’t be needing it as I’m not referring to your hair read more

Lobbyists, Earmarks, Spending: Senators Brazenly Fight Off Controls On Pork

By: Mick McNesby | 2010-04-04 | Politics
To their credit, House Democrats passed a bill that might actually limit earmarks. In the Senate, those who love their pork are resisting. read more

Democrats Demand Sartorial Handicap in Health Care Reform Debate

By: Scott Spiegel | 2010-03-29 | Politics
Senator Barbara Boxer recently declared that, before the current round of town hall meetings on health care reform, the last time she had seen such suspiciously well-dressed protestors was during the 2000 Florida election recount. Well, yes-until Obama's presidency, that's the last time Republicans showed up en masse to get really angry about something; screaming and chanting are political tactics more naturally suited to the left. As for the couture angle-here's a newsflash for Boxer: Republicans have higher standards than Democrats. A typical left-wing protest involves twenty-somethings in ratty T-shirts and shredded jeans breaking windows at a local Starbucks during the midmorning rush. read more

Health Care Reform Debate - Single Payer Vs The Public Option

By: Johnny Moon | 2010-03-29 | News and society
The fact that we need substantial health care reform in the United States is obvious to anyone with any understanding of the issue. The question is: How do we best reform the system? The debate boils down to two alternatives: One is "the public option" and the other is "single payer." read more

Earmarking Our Way To Oblivion

By: J.J. Jackson | 2010-04-04 | Politics
James Madison once remarked, "with respect to the two words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." In writing that letter to James Robertson, he reiterated the sentiments he shared with the nation in Federalist 41 where he denounced objections by the anti-Federalists to the term "general Welfare" being included in the Constitution because of it's presumption of an unlimited and open ended scope as without "color". read more

The Anchor Baby Debate

By: Dennis Copson | 2010-09-15 | Politics
The most recent conflict on immigration reform is one concerning what are referred to as ‘anchor babies', those children born to parents here illegally who then are accorded citizenship based on an interpretation, however discombobulated, of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. read more

The Budget Debate Continues

By: james smith | 2011-06-21 | Currency Trading
An article about the US budget debate read more

US Debt Debate Continues

By: james smith | 2011-07-26 | Currency Trading
An article about the US debt ceiling. read more

No Healthcare Reform?

By: Lillian Varrassi | 2010-03-26 | News and society
The debate concerning healthcare reform is ramping up. When the Senate returns, undoubtedly there will be a clash of the titans. If you do not want health care reform, I suggest you read this. read more

Blogging For Education Reform

By: Emily Sismour | 2010-12-29 | Reference & Education
November 22 was named a National Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform, sparking much online conversation and debate on the current hot-topic of Education Reform. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined the conversation himself, and assured bloggers that the U.S. Department of Education has been listening to their ideas and suggestions. read more

Obeying Labor Law Posters

By: ivy liu | 2012-03-15 | Law
The obeying of labor law posters means the application of laws and rules related to the labors. Knowledge is nothing but a simple theoretical matter unless it is applied in our practical life. After acquiring the knowledge of labor law posters, you have to obey it or try to know the ways and sectors of applying it. read more

1960s In Fashion - Caustic Soda Flakes - Caustic Soda Pearl

By: gaga | 2010-12-23 | Business
Early 1960s Fashions in the early years of the decade reflected the elegance of the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. In addition to the pillbox hat which is discussed in detail below, women wore suits, usually in pastel colours, with short boxy jackets, and oversized buttons. Simple, geometric dresses, known as shifts, were also in style. For evening wear, full-skirted ballgowns were worn; these often had a low dcolletage and had close-fitting waists. For casual wear read more

Dishonesty about healthcare reform

By: David Mayer | 2010-12-20 | Insurance
The article lists the main advantages of the healthcare reforms and identifies some of the misinformation spread before the midterm election. read more