Sign the Vancouver Humane Society anti-calf roping petition Take a stand against cruel calf-roping! Every year, calves at the Calgary Stampede are chased, roped to a jarring halt, picked up and thrown to the ground and tied up — all for the sake of entertainment. They are just a few months old. How can subjecting […]
Whites against apartheid The death this past week end of anti-apartheid cleric Dr Nico Smith, coming so soon after the death of another anti-apartheid struggle veteran, Sheena Duncan, has made more urgent for me the writing of a series of Hubs which I have long planned. These Hubs will be about those whites who put […]
Part One: 1850 to 1856Introduction On July 6, 1854, a crowd that numbered as high as 10,000, crowded into Jackson, Michigan in what has often been considered the founding of the Republican Party. The crowd was unexpected, yet would fervently endorse the party ’s platform which entailed a mix of conservative Whig improvements, such as […]
A Parent’s Worst Nightmare On a pleasant September morning in 1982, a 12 year old boy disappeared in West Des Moines, Iowa. His name was Johnny Gosch. What transpired that day was the beginning of a worldwide eye-opener to the atrocities of pedophilia and child trafficking in America. One woman, Noreen Gosch (Johnny’s mother), out […]
Why Sexism and Racism Are Wrong Now I’ve been on Hubpages for roughly a month, am finally home from abroad, and have had some time to get to know the site. While not pervasive, it seems that there is a fair amount of racism and especially sexism floating around. Some of it is blatant, but […]
Types of Power of Attorney Can Be Confusing I ’ve often been confused about the different types of power of attorney (POA). Let me give you an example. When my grandmother was nearing the end of her life, she was transferred from the hospital to a nursing home for a few weeks. In getting all […]
The Great Recession If you ask 100 people about the current recession, you ’ll likely get 100 different reasons for what caused it, and why it ’s still lingering. Depending on who you ask, everything from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the election of Barack Obama is to blame. In this article, we […]
The Bingham Canyon Mine produced the largest, non-volcanic landslide in the history of North America on April 10th 2013 at 9:30 PM. The landslide was so intense that two different Universities reported it was detected on their seismic networks, which are used to detect earthquakes. These reports came from the University of Utah and Columbia […]
I remember when the elderly in our society were well respected. When people held doors open for older people and when senior citizens were thought of as wise and insightful. People looked up to them as someone who have been around the block a couple more times and therefore they held a certain level of […]
“Look around! You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys strolling down the sidewalk and her reaction is blind fear. I mean, look at us! Are we dressed like gang-bangers? Huh? No. Do we look threatening? No. In fact, if anybody […]
Thank you feminists There is a lot to thank the feminists for. Generations ago, women begun to have a choice to work…or not, have access to activities and jobs once exclusively for men, ability to do more things outside of the home, including voting and gaining property rights. Some things they continue to do today […]
Our Nation–United States of America There is actually a website for OneWorldGov.org , and I wonder how anyone could have the audacity to start this site? It makes one wonder—do these people think we are illiterate, and a non-caring society, who are not knowledgeable about our World. Well, are we? Could it be because our […]