Liberty The term “liberty” ought to be used, properly, for the view of political freedom which constitutionally based political systems adopt. The American system of government has a core value of liberty in its foundations. The supporting theory – essentially a moral theory, since justification of a system is a normative project – comes out […]
Republican David McKinley Seeks to Ban Funding for Climate Readiness In spite of a growing number of reports demonstrating that U.S. military facilities are experiencing the impact of rising seas, one Congressman recently sponsored an amendment that attempts to ban the U.S. military from reacting to climate change. Congressman David McKinley (W.Va,), a Republican up […]
The reptilian conspiracy examined Conspiracy researcher and alternative historian David Icke has become credited with coming up with the idea that shapeshifting reptilians from an alien race control the world. Many people find the idea impossible to believe in and have ridiculed the author for presenting this material. Many say that Icke is discrediting other […]
Meet Marta and Chuck She is waiting for me as arranged, in front of the sports bar in the Landings Plaza, in south Sarasota. She slings beer there, two or three evenings a week, along with three other part time jobs – another waitressing gig serving breakfast in a diner, and a weekend job picking […]
To Protect and Serve To protect and serve. This is the reason we have a police force. They are there to protect us, the general public, from the evil that walks among us. They exist to serve the public good. But what happens when the system that is supposed to defend us instead does us […]
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 […]