http://factoidz.com/experts-in/politics/ politics articles on Factoidz en-us http://factoidz.com/youth-for-mar-roxas-for-president-of-the-philippines/ http://factoidz.com/youth-for-mar-roxas-for-president-of-the-philippines/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-4.jpg http://factoidz.com/america-in-crisis/ http://factoidz.com/america-in-crisis/ What happened to America?  What happened to the streets paved with gold and opportunity for everyone?  The stock market is down more that fifty percent.  Unemployment is up. The housing market has tanked. Jobs are being lost daily.  And so it is!  Every day brings a new surprise. America has... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/america-in-crisis.jpg http://factoidz.com/what-happened-to-america/ http://factoidz.com/what-happened-to-america/ There was a time not too long ago when the United States of America was the pinnacle of greatness.  The world looked to the United States for leadership.  America became the moral compass of the world.  It seemed that when international events occurred, it was America that stepped in and rose abo... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-1.jpg http://factoidz.com/how-to-fix-america-part-1/ http://factoidz.com/how-to-fix-america-part-1/ I realize, with great sadness, there are many talking heads and political figures that have put forth suggestions, measures, and the like for our country on all sides of the political fence. The biggest problem with all the ideas touted about in the mainstream is they are all poor, sorry excuses for... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/how-to-fix-america-part-1.jpg http://factoidz.com/politics-spiritually-speaking/ http://factoidz.com/politics-spiritually-speaking/ Politics seems to be a topic everyone is afraid to talk about, especially with others.  Yet, there are so many political junkies that cannot get enough of it.  All we have to do is look at MSNBC or Fox News.  They present politics twenty four hours a day all seven days of the week. America has... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/politics-spiritually-speaking.jpg http://factoidz.com/will-obamas-new-credit-card-bill-turn-the-tables-on-the-industry/ http://factoidz.com/will-obamas-new-credit-card-bill-turn-the-tables-on-the-industry/ President Obama’s sweeping reforms on the credit card industry should be signed into effect today, enacting consumer protection from predatory lending practices by giant credit card companies such as Chase, Citi, and Bank of Amer... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/investing-2.jpg http://factoidz.com/on-the-subject-of-egalitarianism/ http://factoidz.com/on-the-subject-of-egalitarianism/ By the time the Mbuti of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were first encountered sometime in the mid 15th century (at least in terms of documented, historical encounters), the concept of a true egalitarian society had virtually reached mythological proportions.  Social scientists, theologians,... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/on-the-subject-of-egalitarianism.jpg http://factoidz.com/you-always-remember-your-first-blog/ http://factoidz.com/you-always-remember-your-first-blog/ Having contributed numerous keystrokes to other sites, it was time to stroke for myself. Solo efforts do have their own rewards. Being ADD and OC, my topics will vary depending on mood, phase of the moon, and how many Twizzlers I've consumed pushing me further toward the world of the diabetic coma. ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/you-always-remember-your-first-blog.jpg http://factoidz.com/bad-timing-for-this-new-energy-bill/ http://factoidz.com/bad-timing-for-this-new-energy-bill/ Committee on Energy and Commerce Right at this point in our most horrendous fiscal deficit, many say, since the Great Depression, this is a terrible time to introduce this "Energy and Climate Change" bill.    Nevertheless, for the sake of our futures and for the sake of... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-17.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-qualities-of-good-leadership-analyzing-leadership-qualities-of-us-presidents/ http://factoidz.com/the-qualities-of-good-leadership-analyzing-leadership-qualities-of-us-presidents/ When discussing the qualities of good leadership, I think any description requires an asterisk by it. There are definitely some defined positive and negative attributes to define great leadership but there are also some qualities that might work in some circumstances but not in others. The nature of... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-qualities-of-good-leadership-analyzing-leadership-qualities-of-us-presidents.jpg http://factoidz.com/why-are-health-insurance-costs-so-high/ http://factoidz.com/why-are-health-insurance-costs-so-high/ Health insurance costs a lot of money for the employer who has a health insurance plan for their employees, for those employees, for the self-employed and the unemployed who have health insurance. Health insurance costs a lot o... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/why-are-health-insurance-costs-so-high.jpg http://factoidz.com/who-holds-the-us-debt-and-what-does-it-mean/ http://factoidz.com/who-holds-the-us-debt-and-what-does-it-mean/ Let’s start with a few explanations about the differences between the national debt, the federal debt and the trade imbalance. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/who-holds-the-us-debt-and-what-does-it-mean.jpg http://factoidz.com/terrorism-intelligence-and-overcoming-fear/ http://factoidz.com/terrorism-intelligence-and-overcoming-fear/ By definition,  "terrorism" is  any violent act that provokes violence, incites fear, and may or may not be to support a moral, political or financial end. How then, do we gain insight into the ideas that are out there today, about the Middle East, the war on terror, and other matters? The initial... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-1.jpg http://factoidz.com/why-arent-credit-reporting-agencies-accountable-for-report-accuracy/ http://factoidz.com/why-arent-credit-reporting-agencies-accountable-for-report-accuracy/ Thursday was a successful day around here. After five hours of unrelenting telephone negotiations and moving up the food chain in 3 different organizations, I was able to move on to three hours of lett... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/why-arent-credit-reporting-agencies-accountable-for-report-accuracy.jpg http://factoidz.com/does-california-have-the-answer-to-the-gang-problem/ http://factoidz.com/does-california-have-the-answer-to-the-gang-problem/ Because of the increase in gang-related crimes in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to slow down the rate that is occurring in the recent year. The Los Angeles gang-related crimes rose 14 per cent last yea... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/does-california-have-the-answer-to-the-gang-problem.jpg http://factoidz.com/taking-ownership-of-america-the-key-to-political-reform-lies-within-each-of-us/ http://factoidz.com/taking-ownership-of-america-the-key-to-political-reform-lies-within-each-of-us/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/taking-ownership-of-america-the-key-to-political-reform-lies-within-each-of-us.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-end-of-the-news-as-we-knew-it-why-should-you-care/ http://factoidz.com/the-end-of-the-news-as-we-knew-it-why-should-you-care/ I'm still mourning the recent loss of The Rocky Mountain News - one of Denver, Colorado's two, longtime competing newspapers.  Published for 150 years, the venerable newspaper died an unceremonious death on February 27.  Its death was just the latest in a number of newspa... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-end-of-the-news-as-we-knew-it-why-should-you-care.jpg http://factoidz.com/symbolic-lessons-from-recent-events-flight-1549stumpthe-new-civil-war/ http://factoidz.com/symbolic-lessons-from-recent-events-flight-1549stumpthe-new-civil-war/ Perhaps because I look for symbols, signs and messages in the every day, I find tangible evidence the Universe has been sending us more and more lessons and guidance in the form of recent events.  If we study the hidden meanings behind these events, we can be guided down a path to confront and triu... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-10.jpg http://factoidz.com/why-banks-are-still-not-lending-despite-the-bailout/ http://factoidz.com/why-banks-are-still-not-lending-despite-the-bailout/ Banks are still not lending in spite of the bailout funds that they have received, for the same reason that caused the collapse of the houses of cards that were our mortgage and credit industries: lack... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/why-banks-are-still-not-lending-despite-the-bailout.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-44th-president-of-the-united-states/ http://factoidz.com/the-44th-president-of-the-united-states/ As i got up this morning I knew that this day would be unlike any other day in my life. Nothing special was going to happen to me per-say but events that were going to take place in the nations capital would be sure to change the world. I am refering to Barak Obama's inauguration Speech. The real fl... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-17.jpg http://factoidz.com/dear-rev-martin-luther-king-jr/ http://factoidz.com/dear-rev-martin-luther-king-jr/ Dear Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Would you believe it, you have your own day. Only three people (George Washington and Christopher Columbus) have a federally reco... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/dear-rev-martin-luther-king-jr.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-history-of-the-world-in-400-words/ http://factoidz.com/the-history-of-the-world-in-400-words/ In the words of Douglas Adams, “In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.” It is the intention of this article to tell the entire history of the world in exactly 400 words. This pa... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-history-of-the-world-in-400-words.jpg http://factoidz.com/abraham-lincoln-profile-and-road-to-the-white-house/ http://factoidz.com/abraham-lincoln-profile-and-road-to-the-white-house/ When a person today thinks of Abraham Lincoln they think of a great man. Perhaps they think of his assassination, or as the 16th President, or bringing our country from one sustained by slavery to one sustained by equality. What people don't think of is a man that never stopped going towards what he... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/abraham-lincoln-profile-and-road-to-the-white-house.jpg http://factoidz.com/a-history-of-mystery/ http://factoidz.com/a-history-of-mystery/ CSI, Law and Order, House, the Mentalist and Bones: so many of the top shows on right now could be considered crime fiction or mysteries. If you consider the genre to be ‘mystery’, not just ‘crime fiction’, the list expands even more. People love mysteries. They love crime fiction. But... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/a-history-of-mystery.jpg http://factoidz.com/does-elitism-exist-in-our-society/ http://factoidz.com/does-elitism-exist-in-our-society/ This post is a response to a conversation I had on the way to work today (I carpool). We were discussing wages for particular positions and industry salary standards. It began with a fellow carpooler mentioning that they were editing a proposal for hiring a tax manager at $180,000.00 per year. The ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/does-elitism-exist-in-our-society.jpg http://factoidz.com/experts-get-it-wrong/ http://factoidz.com/experts-get-it-wrong/ Doom and gloom predictions threaten to swamp us. The sea will rise by 10m by next Tuesday, food will become so expensive that people will die by the millions, mosquitoes will thrive while bees will die, a natural part of global warming will be global cooling, etc, etc. The "experts" are not gi... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/experts-get-it-wrong.jpg http://factoidz.com/have-factories-improved-since-the-nike-scandals/ http://factoidz.com/have-factories-improved-since-the-nike-scandals/ Pulling manufacturing out of factories in Asia and Mexico is not the answer. Our economies now depend upon each other. We no longer have the facilities to manufacture our own goods within Canada and the United States. These "Sweatshops" are now being carefully monitored and proactive systems are in ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/have-factories-improved-since-the-nike-scandals.jpg http://factoidz.com/four-books-and-how-they-changed-the-world/ http://factoidz.com/four-books-and-how-they-changed-the-world/ Throughout history, man has told stories. For a shorter part of history, man has written stories down. Here is a summary of some of the most important stories ever written down.  Gilgamesh - Oldest written piece of fiction What it’s a... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/four-books-and-how-they-changed-the-world.jpg http://factoidz.com/how-bad-is-the-situation-in-zimbabwe/ http://factoidz.com/how-bad-is-the-situation-in-zimbabwe/ Things have been bad in Zimbabwe for a long time now and it appears now in late 2008 it is getting much worse. The people living there probably thought it couldn’t get much worse, but it is. Just how bad are things in Zimbabw... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/how-bad-is-the-situation-in-zimbabwe.jpg http://factoidz.com/why-was-governor-rod-blagojevich-governor-of-illinois-arrested/ http://factoidz.com/why-was-governor-rod-blagojevich-governor-of-illinois-arrested/ Governor Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois, a U.S. Democrat, was arrested for soliciting bribe money and faces impeachment; he conferred with a defense attorney with notoriey for taking cases to trial.  Blagojevich was arrested by FBI agents and charged on conspiracy charges to co... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/why-was-governor-rod-blagojevich-governor-of-illinois-arrested.jpg http://factoidz.com/should-congress-have-bailed-out-the-us-auto-industry/ http://factoidz.com/should-congress-have-bailed-out-the-us-auto-industry/ Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors: Should the U.S. Senate have rejected the auto industry rescue bill that pleaded for $14 billion? If so, then why? Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/should-congress-have-bailed-out-the-us-auto-industry.jpg http://factoidz.com/how-obama-sparks-change-for-american-minorities/ http://factoidz.com/how-obama-sparks-change-for-american-minorities/ History was re-invented on Nov. 4th 2008. A world wide acceptance has finally been granted for a man of color. His accomplishment alone can be considered as America’s version of the Berlin wall. As I speak with many of my f... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/how-obama-sparks-change-for-american-minorities.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-traditional-germanic-pre-christmas-arrival-of-belschnickel/ http://factoidz.com/the-traditional-germanic-pre-christmas-arrival-of-belschnickel/ “Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus.” But if you happen to come from a Germanic heritage, there’s a little taste of reality that comes along to keep Santa’s jolly kindness in perspective Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-traditional-germanic-pre-christmas-arrival-of-belschnickel.jpg http://factoidz.com/go-japanese/ http://factoidz.com/go-japanese/ For my part, I drive a Mazda currently, and have driven other Japanese cars and trucks (as well as some U.S. disappointments). Japanese cars consume less gasoline; the replacement parts in them are much cheaper; these more compact and systematized vehicles will outlast anything shallow yet abundant ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST politics http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-17.jpg http://factoidz.com/a-lesson-in-social-justice/ http://factoidz.com/a-lesson-in-social-justice/ Especially in a time national economic turbulence, Social Justice in many cases--much more than the rational mind would realize--easily becomes second to Survival. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/a-lesson-in-social-justice.jpg http://factoidz.com/how-to-reduce-gun-violence-in-the-united-states/ http://factoidz.com/how-to-reduce-gun-violence-in-the-united-states/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/how-to-reduce-gun-violence-in-the-united-states.jpg http://factoidz.com/comparing-quality-of-life-between-united-states-and-europe/ http://factoidz.com/comparing-quality-of-life-between-united-states-and-europe/ Comparing the Quality of Life · 322 physicians per 100,000 people in Europe Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST politics http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/comparing-quality-of-life-between-united-states-and-europe.jpg