House Hopes to Use Leverage to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices

The enactment of Nanci Pelosi’s first hundred hours has begun, and house democrats are searching for ways to fulfill her goal of lowering the price of prescription medication for seniors using Medicare.

Modern Liberalism is Different than Our Founding Fathers Sense of Liberalism

Most of those who call themselves liberals in the present period are nothing similar to the liberalism of past periods when our Founding Fathers were alive. The modern liberal will latch onto the word, liberalism, yet not the dictionary definition. Instead they cling to a politically correct version of socialism. But that is not what liberalism is really.

A Congressman's Strained Attempt at Logic

Ellison's election, and announcement that he will use the Quran at his swearing in ceremony, should have been a showcase for the American ideal that all men are created equal and have an equal chance in this country. Instead, people like Virgil Goode have seized it to personify their own fears an insecurities. What comes out is not the embracing of the high and difficult ideals of our Republic, but a warped and frustrated discharge served to you with a little logic and an American flag.

Confronting Iran

What options are available for confronting Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons?

Seriously - This So Called War

Quick discussion on available options in the Iraq conflict. Present policies are discussed and problems are outlined. Simple solutions do not appear feasible.

French Politics - The Electoral System

Penetrating the many layers of mystery surrounding the French political system and presidential elections can at times seem a daunting task for a Brit or an American whose own system is quite different from that of the French.

Annan, Mandela, Saud and Garland Prophesied Iraq Perfectly Beforehand

They used their minds. Many people go to visit psychics for $25. The psychic will read your herbal tea leaves out of a tea cup or read Mark Foley’s palm and tell them the future with astonishing accuracy...

Federal Aristocracy: Compensation of Federal Civilian Workers Is Soaring

Congressmen pay themselves $168,000 a year. An obscene pension was voted in years ago with eligibility after five years and very generous benefits on top of those. Their salaries are 4 times U.S. per capita.

Who Will Guide The Guards

The democracy principles of American government system were dictated by the idea that government must be for people.

Strategy for Iraq: A Two-State Idea

What is offered here is a new idea for Iraq. It is an idea that divides the country into two newly independent states, a Kurdish north and a Shiite south, leaving the Sunnis to learn to live like the minority they are.

The Twilight Zone Tower

Now if you are the trusting sort you might say he just made a mistake. But now if you’re of a suspicious nature or a low down conspiracy theorist you might ask, why destroy the tape? What reason? Negligence? Do you suppose it went something like this? “Bill when the first plane hit the tower what were you doing?” Well sir, I had just burnt my lip on my crack pipe so I went down to the bar to get another beer.” “And John is that how you remember it?” “I don’t know sir I was asleep at the time.”

Pork: Billions Wasted Each Year To Reelect Incumbents

Pork Is Rampant In The United States Congress. Voters must reverse the slogan, Bring Home The Bacon. We send a whopping increase to the federal government each year, add enormous costs, than have a small portion of those costs returned, to make a Senator or House member look good. To increase national income, per capita income and integrity, the new slogan should be, Keep The Bacon Home.

Socialism in a Capitalist Society

In most so-called capitalist societies like the United States there appears to be much more socialism present today than ever before. This article examines how capitalism and socialism interact in a big corporate dominated nation like the United States.

Franklin Roosevelt

The political system of the United States is based on democratic principles. America has a government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’ (A. Lincoln). This means that the American people have a choice in making the laws and the right to decide who will be the leader of their nation.

How To Slash Taxes, Permanently, and Fix the Fatal Flaw In the Constitution

Slash the size of government, permanently, and we can slash our taxes. To do this, we need to fix the Constitution.