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The Pros and Cons of the Bush Tax Cuts. Do they really favor the wealthy or is that a myth? What will help the...

Those who favor the continuation of the Bush tax cuts argue that these cuts are needed to encourage investment which, in turn, will result in a stronger economy and more job creation. As I pointed out in my Hub entitled How Tax Cuts Work, this is...

27 comments    politics income freedom
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Freemasons and the symbols on the dollar bill

Do you have any idea what all of that stuff on the back of a dollar bill means? This article will explore the Freemason influence on our history in regards to the currency still used today.

65 comments    money religion politics
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Ron Paul On the Issues

Ron Paul's political views vary greatly from many of the other Republican candidates for president in 2012. This hub attempts to take an unbiased looked at Paul's views on a variety of key issues.

8 comments    education politics government
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English Swear Words

The English language uses amusing, unusual, even unique methods for swearing. Every language has it’s expletives but English is bloody strange.That last one for instance, peculiar to England though sometimes used in the British Dominions of...

249 comments    language england english
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and His Call for Privatization of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation

March 6, 2011 The big news in Toronto, Canada this week is the scandal involving the use of funds by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) for expensive parties, gifts and other perks for employees. This news has resulted in Toronto's...

17 comments    business politics real estate
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Masters of Misinformation--Surveys Skewer Fox News for Inaccurate Reporting

Can Fox News make you more uninformed than not watching the news at all? Well according to seven different surveys (Done by Fairleigh Dickenson University; the University of Maryland; the Wall Street Journal; Stanford University; Ohio State...

64 comments    politics america president obama
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Cherokee Nation and 500 Years of a Different Brand of Racism and Politics - Cherokee Nation Downsizes

Native Americans have been featured in the news with increasing frequency since one group, the Crow Nation, adopted President Barack Obama as a member upon his election to POTUS in 2008. Another nation - Lakota - seceded from the United States and...

29 comments    education politics us history
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World Overpopulation Research with the 2010 Census

The Daily Record tells us that despite the slowest decade (2000 - 2010) of population growth in the United States since the Great Depression, we still have the fastest-growing population of any industrialized nation. The Unitied States population...

21 comments    education american history
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Effects of Greed in the World Today?

"How Does Greed Effect Us Today?" is a powerful article that focuses on greed and corruption in the world today. What are the effects of greed on innocent victims through such scams as home modifications, debt consolidation, credit cards and bankruptcy. Millions of dollars are stolen each year from individuals in search of help but due to greed, they become victims of malicious scams, leaving them with little hope for the future. We are living in a culture of meism and love of money which has co

0 comments    money god religion
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What's a Conservative Ideology and What's a Liberal Ideology?

I used to carpool with an old, blind professor to the small college I attended and he use to tell me, paraphrasing Gore Vidal, that politics came from two words: poli, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood sucking vermin. Unfortunately, his somewhat...

54 comments    conservative liberal ideology
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