2007

When does murder begin? Is it when the gun explodes taking away a person’s ability to breathe or is it when a child is forced to experience the pain of sexual abuse while learning that the person they are dependent on has no love for them?
Perhaps it doesn’t matter because to the child experiencing the [...]

According to AARP magazine (October 2007), 77% of us are not frightened by thoughts of what happens after death. Surprisingly, however, an even larger number 94% believe that there is a God which makes me wonder why 17% of those who believe in God are afraid of what happens after death. I was brought up [...]

Biodiesel fuel’s demand is growing at an incredible rate and with the demand is the opportunity for some to make incredible profits. However, not all investors are as sought after as others. According to Rob Wood, chief operating officer of Crane-based, renewable energy firm American Green Holdings Inc. “the demand for biodiesel far outstrips the supply”. [...]

I honestly believe that I am A true patriot. Perhaps I more reminiscent of Ethan Allen or Patrick Henry in wanting to fight back against tyranny by those who would like to take away our freedoms but I believe that the Constitution is being slowly diluted and altered by the current powers that be.
If my understanding [...]

Frederick Dalton (Fred) Thompson, with his candidacy to be declared just after Labor Day, is described by Republican pollster Frank Luntz as the “Six-million-pound gorilla” of the Republican primary race. At 64 years, Thompson is best known for his role as New York CityDistrict Attorney Arthur Branch on TVs Law and Order series. However, he [...]

Republican Chuck Hagel, one of the loudest Iraq critics in his party, may find himself running as an independent if he feels that he would be unable to take his party’s nomination for president. As the Senate war debate continues, Hagel’s conservative voting record has been overshadowed by his forceful criticism of how Mr. Bush [...]

Google who acquired YouTube last November in an unprecedented $1.65 billion deal is planning to implement a new technology by early fall that will help to combat video piracy. However, a YouTube spokesman has stated that due to the complicated development process “it is difficult to forecast specific launch dates,” he wrote.
The development of [...]

California Representative, Duncan Lee Hunter, is making a bid for the 2008 presidential nomination based on his espousing of the politics of former President Ronald Reagan, which includes his fiscal conservatism and belief in the need for a muscular military. 
Former member of the United States Army Airborne turned lawyer, Hunter was elected to Congress in [...]

David Baltimore in American Scientist praises The God Delusion, an anti-religious book by Richard Dawkins, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. In his review, Baltimore notes that “Dawkins doesn’t ever come to terms with the large number of scientists who are comfortable believing both [in] evolution … and that there is [...]

Fifty-nine-year-old Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson has over the last 25 years proven himself to be a reliable leader serving not only seven terms as a congressman but also as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy, and as a two-term governor of New Mexico.
Richardson is basing his long-shot bid for the Democratic [...]