The Morality of Child Labor

From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGOs often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks ...Full Article

Corruption and Transparency

I. The FactsJust days before a much-awaited donor conference, the influential International Crisis Group (ICG) recommended to place all funds pledged to Macedonia under the oversight of a corruption a...Full Article

Is America Bankrupt?

The US Dollar has been falling continuously in last year. The Euro, not so long ago worth 82 cents, is now at $1.27 - this is a gain of more than 40 percent in a very short time. The same goes for the...Full Article

The Divided Language

I was dismayed to learn the other day, that my all-time favourite George Bernard Shaw quote may not in fact have been uttered by him.Nevertheless, even the misquotation that Britain and the United Sta...Full Article

Dont Trade Rights for Security

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety. -- Ben Franklin, 1776In the wake of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks around the world, th...Full Article

The Lemon Dance: Why Government Doesnt Work

Former Senator, Daniel Moynihan, accurately summed up the situation when he posited that,"[t]he single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competenc...Full Article

Asking For Proof in the Economic Pudding

There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. Ask an economist for proof of one of their pet theories and youll find quickly that the age old axiom that we all learned in school and work place tr...Full Article

The Glorious Acts of Our Legislature

I always have to remember to take a deep breath when examining the laws being proposed by our grand Legislature. I detest most of the new legislation on the table, but have to forgive our representati...Full Article

History of the Media, Radio, and Television

When were the forms of media created? When did advertising first show up? Who owns the media?Creation of the various forms of media*Newspapers & Magazines ~ 1880*Movies ~ 1910*Television ~ 1945*Cable ...Full Article

A Viewpoint Not Represented in the Mainstream Media

The news media will regularly present views from Democratic (liberal), Republican (neoconservative), and independent (moderate) perspectives. However, I rarely, if ever, see my point of view represent...Full Article

What Price Loyalty?

With the recent shakeups in the presidential cabinet, it has frequently been observed that the quality most treasured in the present administration is that of loyalty.Is that such an admirable quality...Full Article

Business: Where Is America Headed To?, New York Millionaire Wonders

Hello! Happy new year. May you live a long healthy life and prosper.According to a study by US dept. of Health & Human Services, 96% of Americans never achieve financial independence. They end up d...Full Article

Government Overregulation of Broadcast Content Could Backfire

Rush is right! The governments stepped up bid to regulate broadcast television content is indeed frightening. Limbaugh made his comments during one of his regular radio broadcasts last year. Those rem...Full Article

Affirmative Inaction

One of Abraham Lincolns claims to fame is the fact that he is best known for abolishing slavery. While he may have felt some personal satisfaction from liberating the Negroes from their bondage, Econo...Full Article

Fact to Fiction: The Brutal Truth about the Practice of Stoning

"Like humans void of soul or mind, they jeered and yelled as they went about selecting their most jagged stones." - David Hearne, excerpt from Hulagus Web.Stoning is a brutal and outdated pr...Full Article

Seven Things That Make Me Angry

I watch the TV news and I get angry. I really need to quit that. Its not good for my blood pressure. However, there are certain things that always get me going no matter how hard I try to ignore them....Full Article

The Looting of American Taxpayers Social Security Disability by Fraudulent Employers Pt. 1

For more than a decade, you the American taxpayer have been burdened with my disability assistance. Why? Because my high-profile employer, a member of the bar and a politically connected entity in th...Full Article

The American Worker: Downward Mobility

All the indicators show an improving economy and, finally, the start of job growth. More than eight million unemployed workers see hope around the corner and re-enter the nightmare of job search with ...Full Article

Recycling The Mentally Ill

30 years ago, California, later followed by other states, decided to virtually close down the State Mental Hospitals.There had been multiple exposures of abuse throughout the Nations systems such as o...Full Article

Revitalizing The Power of the Baby Boomers

As baby boomers, we have been spoiled all of our lives. When we were teenagers, the world took note because there were so many of us. Our music, our beliefs, our fashions, our styles dominated the cul...Full Article