Truckers Take Some Hits and Keep On Trucking

After 9-11 insurance rates on Independent Truck Drivers and smaller trucking companies showed an average increase of over 30%. Larger trucking companies are generally self insured, however incessant lawsuits have also hurt them and caused higher self insurance funds causing decreased earnings and thus higher over all shipping rates to... Read More

Will Gay Marriage Slow Down AIDS Crisis

It is widely known in the Homosexual Male Populations that the promiscuity is astronomically high. The AIDS crisis has lost a little momentum in the United States in heterosexual populations in recent years due to awareness. We are not out of the woods by any means but we have slowed... Read More

Dealing with Massive Prisoners of War

In the last Gulf War we saw thousands of enemy soldiers giving up. Killing them is against Geneva Convention and they know it. So the soldiers simply laid down their weapons and said; "I give up, feed me!" Obviously we were snookered by this tactic, but it really came as... Read More

Nurturing Global Disequilibrium

This brings to our consciousness, issues concerning the ever rising level of inequality prevalent in our times with its attendant fallout and imbalance within our global system.This has had its roots within the basic units of human co-existence experienced at our different localities and as such has naturally extended beyond,... Read More

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 culture of the age. When we took to the streets to protest the war... Read More

A Workable Alternative to Term Limits

The end of another election once again brings into focus the problem of Washington politicians raising money and running for re-election as soon as they get into office. Many citizens and various government-accountability advocacy groups have done little more than complain from time to time. However, some of them, along... Read More

The Morality of Using Stem Cells

One third of all fertilized eggs spontaneously abort and are expelled from a woman's body. We do not have funerals or mourn these embryos. Could it be that they are not really "babies" yet? Only when it is convenient do people call these clumps of cells, babies or fetuses. They... Read More

What could Macedonia Learn from a Tiger? Asian Tigers and Uninterrupted Economic Growth

The first reaction of economies in transition is a sharp decline in their production, mainly in industrial production. In the countries which attained independence with the demise of the British Empire (where the sun never set) - industrial production fell by 20% on average. Even this was because these countries... Read More

Dafur Emergency: A Challenge To Civilisation

With pain rocking through my whole body today, I cast a bitter glance back at what I called, the 'tragedy of Dafur' and decided to settle accounts with my fellow Africans on this matter.President Omar el-Bashir has twisted history, invented a distortion in African lexicon and rammed it through our... Read More

Preparing to Invade Japan

This is the fourth and final article in a series recollecting Britain in the 1940's. My uncle, the late Mr Gordon Bessant is telling his memories to Mr Joe Hieatt-Smith. The tapes were made in 1994, not 1996 as previously stated.For myself, I found myself being trained for the Japanese... Read More

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Should Farmers Plant GM Terminator Seeds?

If a farmer plants the same crop three seasons in... Read More

Michael Moore: The Dumbest People on the Face of the Earth

"Fahrenheit 9/11" auteur Michael Moore recently fueled the epidemic of... Read More

Going All Out to Win a War

Conventional warfare is getting to its limits. Soon wars will... Read More

Abu Ghraib: Our Surprise is the only Surprise

As pictures and videos surface showing young American soldiers humiliating... Read More

National ID Cards Have More Than Australians Concerned

Fearful that terrorists will next target Australia, Prime Minister John... Read More

Fight Terror, With Education

A War on Terrorism? Conventional war being brought on an... Read More

Government Overregulation of Broadcast Content Could Backfire

Rush is right! The government's stepped up bid to regulate... Read More

High Speed Trains and The Future of Transportation

Where are all the high-speed trains we were promised? Where... Read More

Quick Thought on The Flow of Fuel and Costs

Without the flow of fuel our very mobile society comes... Read More

US Trade Deficit with Bordering Neighbors

The trade deficit with Canada is now 50 Billion per... Read More

Farming Human Clones

If someone wanted to farm future clones they would need... Read More

The American Worker: Downward Mobility

All the indicators show an improving economy and, finally, the... Read More

If Terrorists Are To Become Slick Politicians, They Need Time Rather Than God on Their Side

The number of countries in the world at the moment... Read More

Victims of Child Support

"Similar to Medieval Inquisitions, judges have been given the authority,... Read More

The Liberal Solution: Assault a Conservative?

Ok, here is what happened: On March 31, 2005, Pat... Read More

Another Round of EU-Iran Talks Starts April 10 - Will Iran Be Referred To The UN Security Council?

Iran's objection to ratifying the International Atomic Energy Agency's Additional... Read More

World Moving from Socialism to Capitalism

The recent Jakarta summit of Asia and Africa brought remembrance... Read More

North Korea and Diplomatic Solutions; Random Thoughts Part I

You know now that North Korea is backing down on... Read More

The Truth About Power and Absolute Zero

Societies have always had a problem of what to do... Read More

Trade Policy; Hurting Industry and Small Business

The steel tariff taxes a few years ago hurt industry... Read More

The ?Manchurian Candidate?: Lee Harvey Oswald?

An American soldier is taken behind enemy lines and brainwashed... Read More

Pilot-Less and High Speed Train Transportation Systems; Better Strategy Needed

We recently saw another ferry accident, this one in NY... Read More

Advances in Nuclear Energy; Safe, Clean and Reliable

The newest pebble reactors are easy to build and manage... Read More

Responding to Article: Logic Class 101 Applied to the Minuteman Project

In response to Douglas Bower's article; Logic Class 101 Applied... Read More

Federal Trade Commission Franchising Website Needs Updating

Many times our government regulatory over embellish problems in the... Read More

Mexican Trucks in the United States; NAFTA Trade and Problems

Expected new applications for Mexican trucks to enter the US... Read More

Federal Trade Commission Franchising Division; Inept?

Why are we over regulating the franchising industry? What are... Read More

Colonel Boyd on Limited War and Iraq Victory

In discussing the OODA Loop theory on Limited War by... Read More

Garbage in Garbage out; California Blackouts

Why did the California energy crisis happen? Who is to... Read More

Social Security Rant

As the Baby Boomer Generation continue to get older, one... Read More

Are We Serious About Fuel Alternatives?

As you can see from some of our previous articles,... Read More

Make Plastic Out of Corn

Here is an interesting thought; Corn to make Plastic An... Read More

Plastics In Our Nations Dumps and Landfills

Long Term Environmental Effect of Plastics, Composites and Other Materials... Read More