George W. Bush spends almost $200 million dollars per year to fight the "War on Drugs." You probably didn't notice this because the only results we've seen have been in the form of misguiding commercials claiming that "buying drugs supports terrorism," or "marijuana can get you busted". But is it re...

"2004" Presidential Debate This year's election is running very close. It's probably the closest running election we have seen in a long time. We all know that there is a possibility there could be a transition of power taking place. Therefore watching the three debates al...

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you for coming here tonight and those of you at home watching. This election could be a major turning point in history. We have two choices. The first choice is to remain how we are now, a nation who is being lied to. We could remain a nation whose ad...

The two main candidates for the election of 2000 are George W. Bush and Al Gore. Al Gore, of course, being the current Vice President. I have never been into the whole politics game. But, know that I am 18 years old I feel I should start paying more attention to political issues. I do...

The State of the Union is a speech delivered by the president directed towards Congress and the citizens of the United States. In this speech, the president addresses the problems that our nation faces today; both domestic and foreign. President George W. Bush opened his speech with the issue of Ame...

A marine came into our class on Thursday to speak to us about his experiences on war and his opinions of war. The marine was a recruiter for the marine core and he had lots to say about joining the core and what the requirements are. He had been in the core for about 10 years so he had lots to sh...

Senator Paul Wellstone Late Senator Paul Wellstone's extraordinary courage in the fight for issues such as peace and human rights along with his opposition to the Gulf War and the war in Iraq made him a political hero in the eyes of many. As U.S. senator of Minnesota, Wellstone ...

2000 election The two main candidates for the election of 2000 are George W. Bush and Al Gore. Al Gore, of course, being the current Vice President. I have never been into the whole politics game. But, know that I am 18 years old I feel I should start paying more attention to political issues. I don...

Civil LibertiesWhat has happened to the U.S. is a confusion of terms. Liberty has been used to supplant freedom. The terrorists' acts were facilitated by the efforts of liberty groups. People don't want to have all those protective measures to get on an airplane. If checks are removed then it ma...

William Jefferson Clinton, by far the MOST controversial President of our TimeOn January 20, 1993, our current presiding president, William J. Clinton was sworn into office. For the past six years, one of the most flamboyant presidencies has been lived out and still continues to this very day. In th...

I really wish those terrorists hadn't flown planes into buildings. There is the whole loss of life thing but there is also the fact that America won't shut up about it. I'm so tired of hearing September 11th crap everywhere in the media that if I didn't know better, I'd enrol myself in flight school...

WAKE UP!!!We are approaching the point of no return, in terms of what makes this nation great. Now, we have already leaped grossly past the barrier or morality and decency in our society, but one of the few things that we have always been able to depend on is slowly slipping out of our grasp. Am I c...

Andrew Gumbell, the U.S. correspondent for the United Kingdom's Independent newspaper, and Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 911 are similar in that they both discuss the role of fraud in American elections. The difference is that whereas in Fahrenheit 911, the fraud examined is that of the 2000 Pres...

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 the second of five children of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. His mother Dorothy was the daughter of a wealthy investor, and his father Prescott was an investment banker and US Senator from Connecticut. As ...