Tag: politics
member name: Rory M.
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July 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The trend in politics today is to reduce, in many cases eliminate, government services. This trend reflects the consensus amongst the population that government is inefficient, too costly, burdensome, . . . more
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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April 08, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . . more
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February 26, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Gather.com recently promoted a six-part series of articles by Alan M. Dershowitz entitled "Ex-President for Sale" written in response to the publication of the book "Palestine Peace Not . . . more
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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November 14, 2007 10:37 PM EST --
Here is the big debate that no one is really engaging the public in, and no politician will dare. While the religious right wing in America has forced the abortion debate onto the agenda, and the . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
Jimmy Carter’s latest book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) is causing quite a stire as various defenders of Israel scream blue-murder (or at least hint of anti-Semitism) and recently triumphant . . . more
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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . . more
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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November 12, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Given the title of this piece, it could be a charming little story about forest creatures, about a gentle but eerie sounding Loon who lived on a quiet lake and magnificent Buck , or Stag, who came . . . more
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May 24, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
Often problems arise in society that are treated as though they came out of nowhere , the public and the politicians reacting as though the problem could not have been foreseen or forestalled. . . . more
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July 09, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
There is a holocaust going on amongst the nations that comprise the majority of humanity on this globe, it has been going on for a generation, it dwarfs The Holocaust that was perpetrated by the Nazis, . . . more
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March 05, 2007 12:10 PM EST --
It has been almost six years since the United States, Great Britain, Canada and a variety of other allies have been embroiled in the “War on Terrorism”. The U.S., U.K. and some other . . . more
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September 30, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
We have come to an odd point in our social and cultural development wherein people of good intentions and kind hearts are unable to discuss certain topics without rancour, invective and harsh judgement . . . more
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September 28, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Someone remarked to me recently how ironic they found it that Germany, a country which had lost the two biggest wars in history within the last century alone, had been torn in two and governed by two opposing . . . more
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November 22, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
I am not in the habit of reading books authored by American political figures. Though I have read two of former President Jimmy Carter's books, I am not drawn to partisan writings on politics in . . . more
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October 24, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
Jan 21, 2008 - Washington - President Hillary Rodham Clinton has been in office less than 24 hours and she has already solved the nation's Energy Crisis and brought the lingering Iraq War to . . . more
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