Was Fort Hood Shooting About Jihad Or Indicative Of How Broken Our Mental Health System Is?

(Sat Jan 2nd, 2010, by Kelly Burris, PhD)

Nidal Hasan needs to be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted for this despicable crime at Fort Hood but it is important not to use him as yet another excuse for the incredible incompetence of the mental health industry. The most important informati...

Facts about the Vietnam War

(Wed Dec 30th, 2009, by Samus Bendwan)

The Vietnam War was started in 1959 in an attempt to stop the spread of communism to neighboring countries. The country had split at the 17th parallel in 1954 when the French had attempted to takeover the country but was defeated at Dien Bien Phu. Th...

Strategy of world leaders: "More war, less education"

(Wed Dec 30th, 2009, by Makhsudul Islam)

  By Makhsudul Islam It is to be maintained that non-implementation of the programme of universal primary education and not putting this social welfare programme first on the list of priorities has rendered the world vulnerable in all fields; and ch...

Obama refuse to kiss the French First Lady, why?

(Tue Dec 29th, 2009, by happy pig)

I read a funny anecdote by accident : the British press has gone in a frenzy over an existential question : what happened to Barack et Carla? In fact, the British newspapers are wondering why the American president and the French First Lady did not k...

Replacing Kyoto with an Universally Acceptable Treaty

(Tue Dec 29th, 2009, by Klaus H Hemsath)

The Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009 was doomed to failure before it ever began. The division between the major polluters and the rest of the world was just too wide. Even the two largest polluters, the USA and China, could not agree with each o...

Missing sailor found in the Caribbean

(Mon Dec 28th, 2009, by sanajai)

But watching all the breaking news on CNN and other major news channels last weekend about Laura Dekker a young girl from the Netherlands who ran away made me think, wow what are my kids going to be planning when they get to that age. For Laura it al...

Politics As Usual-Is That Unusual

(Mon Dec 28th, 2009, by sanajai)

The seat the late Ted Kennedy in the senate, will be sworn into office this afternoon by Vice-President Joe Biden and take his place as an interim replacement until the special election is held in Massachusetts on January 19. This whole process has b...

Review: Angela Davis Honors Hero in Frederick Douglass Book

(Sun Dec 20th, 2009, by Judith Brown)

When I was a child, I heard stories about the so-called "activist" Angela Davis. We'd whisper her name in the schoolyard - as if betraying our parents, those very ones who were themselves fooled into thinking that Ms. Davis was truly an "enemy of the...

Government Health Care Bill: The Next Step On the Road to Tyranny and Slavery

(Sat Dec 19th, 2009, by sean sandvik)

 Democrats deceptively argue that the health care bill is legal under the commerce clause of the Constitution. The commerce clause relates to business, not individuals, but the Democrats have skewed the original purpose and intent of the Constitutio...

How You Can Quit Drinking in 21 Days

(Fri Dec 18th, 2009, by Ed Philips)

Ongoing alcohol use can create many problems in your life, not only with your family and friends, but also at the workplace and it is important to recognize the symptoms of alcoholism and understand the difference between than and simply being a heav...