Tag: us
group name: britannica
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March 18, 2008 08:15 AM EDT --
There is universal agreement that the US economy is currently in a mess. Calling it a recession or not is merely a matter of semantics. The American people are blaming it on the government, . . . more
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December 31, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
What impact will the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto have on the US presidential race? The simple answer is: none at all. For sure, the presidential candidates from both parties, who . . . more
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June 09, 2008 02:09 AM EDT --
It is quite probable that many Americans are laboring under the optimistic assumption that, if Barack Obama becomes President, the US will make a speedy exit from Iraq; and the troops will come . . . more
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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes? It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . . more
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June 12, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
I know a couple who were planning a trip to Israel this summer. They have never traveled outside the US, so they had to apply for passports. They got all their documents together, filled . . . more
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July 09, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
The most current statistics indicate that thirty percent of the American adult population have been alcoholics, been dependent on alcohol or abused alcohol in their lifetime. An estimated . . . more
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . . more
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December 08, 2006 03:26 PM EST --
Supporters of the Iraq War are often found trying to deflect some of their responsibilty for this debacle onto a consensus that was sweeping the country during the lead up to the invasion. . . . more
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April 22, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I was watching a call-in program on C-SPAN last Saturday morning when something happened that always annoys and disappoints me. The caller was a self-proclaimed conservative Republican . . . more
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November 26, 2007 09:39 AM EST --
Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has send a 42 item questionnaire to six leading televangelists inquiring into how their ministries spend the multi-millions of dollars that . . . more
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . . more
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June 13, 2006 06:42 PM EDT --
Digging At The Roots of Grammar
George Corneliussen
BTW, LOL, 24/7, correct grammar or popular usage? When did grammar begin to morph into the self-defined format it occupies in today's world of . . . more
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July 04, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
The recent terrorist attacks in Glasgow Scotland have revealed some interesting data about the universal health care system in the UK. In discussing the involvement of doctors in the attacks, . . . more
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February 06, 2007 10:29 PM EST --
The Tax Foundation, a Washington D.C. nonpartisan tax research organization, is concerned that we have a growing number of lower incomes individuals and families in our nation that are not paying any, . . . more
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February 28, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
A twelve-year-old Maryland boy died from complications of an abscessed tooth when the bacteria from the tooth spread to his brain. The boy was hospitalized due to the brain infection and . . . more
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July 01, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
The chief prosecutor of St Louis is preparing to release a report that took two years to develop that may show that convicted murderer Larry Griffin, executed in 1995, was innocent of the crime. . . . more
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August 31, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
The official report on the Virginia Tech shootings has been published and it contains details of Cho’s mental health history and treatment details. I am a retired therapist that . . . more
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March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . . more
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December 16, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
A growing number of states are deciding not to apply for Federal Health and Human Services funds dedicated to abstinence only education. At least 14 states . . . more
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July 29, 2006 08:51 AM EDT --
George Corneliussen
Quote: " In our time, most fortunately for human welfare, the underlying motive of public education has begun to receive the attention it deserves from those who administer . . . more
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