What they said ... 'This is not a road safety strategy, this is a budget strategy, and this Government has now become completely dependent on windfall gains from Victoria's motorists' Robert Doyle, leader of the Victorian Opposition 'If you get fined [and] lose your licence, you should actually...

Major issues state governments confront in the U.S. are basic issues that people have a lot to say about. These issues are interest group pressure, waste management, gambling, abortion, gun control, capital punishment, and emergency services. But first let's look at why people vote or do not ...

Drugs, Crime and Prohibition Do drugs really cause crime, or is it our governments way of controlling the communities? Many people blame drugs for every problem in our society, but is it the true evil in our society? No one person can answer that question. There are only opinions and s...

*.INHEAD* *.AD* Music and Censorship Victor Lombardi December 1991 Second Reader: Alan Stuart Instructor: Richard Hixon Introduction Our society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of ...

A way to enforce democracy-compulsory voting According to the statistics from Statistics Canada, even though the total registered number of the electors has increased each year (from 1988 to the latest 2000), the percentage of electors who exercised their voting rights in the federal elections ha...

Today more than ever we are being faced with the problem of our Health Care system. Currently the United States spends 1.6 trillion dollars on healthcare. That amounts to 15% of our GDP. To look at it in perspective that's almost double what the country spends on information technology. Within ...

Have we lost the War on Drugs? The War on Drugs officially started in 1972 with President Nixon declaring that drug law enforcement was not strict enough. To enforce the laws of the original Harrison Act, a new and intensified plan was to be enacted. The war reached its peak during the Reagan and Bu...