Government

There have been quite a few suggestions floated around for what the government might do to help reduce gas prices, everything form getting rid of taxes on gas, to tax free gas “holidays” to releasing supplies from the national petroleum reserve.  My original though when gas prices hit 2 dollars a gallon, then 3, then [...]

A recent article in the New Yorker disclosed that the penny, thanks to rising costs in copper, costs 1.7 cents to produce. That means that it costs more money to make the penny than the penny is actually worth. With that in mind, it no longer makes sense from a productions standpoint to [...]

Ralph Nader has recently announced that he will be running for President as a third party candidate for the 2008 elections, some have said that his running will make it easier for the Republican party candidate to win in key states and possibly turn the election because Nader will split the youth vote.  However, that [...]

This Thursday, Turkish ground forces infiltrated into Iraq in order to carry out strikes against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.  The story has been reported on news sites such as CNN and The Washington Post, but that isn’t the main point that I took from those stories, the main point was that a major military offensive, [...]

Will allegations of a sex scandal hurt McCain?  The Republican Party has long held themselves up as protectors of traditional family values and morality, but those days are apparently behind them as they continue to endorse a man who is an admitted adulterer and who supports the act of torture by the United States.  The [...]

Typically, a candidate who has little or nothing to lose and everything to gain has the power to speak their mind and to tell how they really feel without having to remain political and trying not to offend anyone.  When a dark horse candidate has an impact, that will usually get the front runners to [...]

No.  There, I said it and there is no going back.  A lobbyist’s main job is to remain a lobbyist, and by that I mean they have to convince the people that give them money to lobby on their behalf are actually getting something for their money - if they can do that then they [...]