On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Barack Obama, President of the United States, presented his State of the Union Address to a joint session of the United States Congress. President Obama began the speech describing several goals that nation already reached - such as businesses having created more than ...

In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," prisoners waste their entire lives chained in an underground cavern, nurtured into deeming that shadows' wavering in front of them is a reality. Socrates presents the allegory of the hardship of grasping reality. One prisoner manages to break off the chains to ...

The use of political campaigning through television has been around for quite a while. Broadcasting politics on television allows the elections to be more accessible to more viewers. Although politics through media was meant to be positive, the true purpose was quickly overcome by a concern about im...

What is Judicial Review? It is when the High court has to come in and review a decision that was made by the legislative or the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. It is also an option when the State courts make a ruling and it is challenged by the defendant, to seek if their ruling was ma...

Habeas Corpus is a legal action which is sometimes called a writ and it says a person under arrest is to be brought before a judge to make sure that there is enough evidence to hold the person. If there isn't enough evidence then the prisoner must be released. Any prisoner or a legal person re...

Our nation is currently suffering from social, economical, as well as political injustice and its greatly impacting Americans of every social class. From the lower to the upper class and from the white to the blacks, we are all greatly affected by it. Many people can agree that injustice is unfair a...

As Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney was at the center of Bush's "War on Terror." Along with then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, he was the chief architect of the plan and attack against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Cheney advised and convinced President George W. Bush to inc...

The "First Inaugural Address" by Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States was held on January 20, 1981. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Ronald Reagan to be remembered as one of the greatest President's ever. It was the first t...

Like most Indian Nations, the Cherokee were systematically subjugated, robbed, dispossessed and finally forced out of their ancestral homelands. The only difference between the Cherokee Nation and other Nations is that they were more assimilated to the dominant white culture and thus left behind a l...

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes (poet, playwright, author--1902-1967), Following Hughes' suggestion, I continue to hold fast to many dreams and keep them alive every day: They are striving to be the best Ch...

In the article "McCain Sees King Speech as Chance to Mend Ties" from the New York Times, Michael Cooper draws attention to the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, an event which eve...

Overview On March 15, 2008, New York Times writer Eric Lichtblau wrote an article, "House Votes to Reject Immunity for Phone Companies Involved in Wiretaps". The main focus of this article was the controversy surrounding the use of phone tapping, or the secret activity of monitoring...

For the first time in several years – or even decades, the Canadian dollar is worth more the American green buck. This is one indication that our neighbors to the north are enjoying a hefty economy while that of ours is in dire straits. With an election year at its full swing, the Democrats m...

As the Republican Party hunkers down and get down to business of winning the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election with their "last man standing" candidate John McCain, the Democrats are still on a slugfest between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. True to the cliche, &qu...

In an op-ed article in The New York Times, Gerecht advocates that the United States open direct talks with Iran's nation, something the Bush Administration has as yet declined to do and that Democrat candidate Barack Obama has said he would do as president. Why have talks with Iran? Writer Reuel Ma...

Senate's Long Losing Streak on Presidency Could Be Near an End By Carl Hulse (NYT - 2/7/08) With the unexpected withdrawal of Republican Mitt Romney from the presidential race, the likelihood of a sitting United States senator going straight from Congress to the presidency appe...

The process by which the United States follows according to the election of the commander in chief – the president, is systematically implemented according to an official infrastructure of dynamics that are dictated by an array of sub-systems that are essentially of the people and by the peop...

Within the last decade, the Office of the President of the United States Federal Government, part of the triad of the Executive, Legislative (US Congress) and Judicial (the Supreme Court) branches, has come under fire, due to the views of some Americans who consider the Executive branch to be far le...

When Dick Cheney "was presenting the rough game plan and sequence" for the invasion of Afghanistan with timing that was "totally up in the air," Colin Powell pressed for a more definite strategy (Woodward, 2002). As Woodward points out in Bush at War, the former Secretary of State advocated a clear-...

The primary purpose of setting up armed forces of any country is to ensure the stability of the nation in times of war. Further to this mission is to defend the country against foreign or domestic (with regulations) aggression. Hence, the military is there to conduct offensive and defensive combat o...

Picture yourself rolling through the streets of Baghdad in an armored personnel vehicle, when an adversary pops out of the shadows with a rocket launcher. You are dead in his sights, and you suddenly remember that your vehicle lacks much of the armor it is supposed to have, and your bulletproof vest...

The U.S. involvement in Iraq may go down as one of the most controversial wars in history – even more so than the Vietnam War. Why? Because the basic premise for invading Iraq was false. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and so, there was no reason to invade the country, other than...

The following is an analysis of a speech given by the President of the United States, President George W. Bush on October 7, 2002. The speech was entitled "President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat "and was presented at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio...

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a film that politically attacks the President of the United States. Michael Moore focused on what have been concealed based on credible reports. The film started with the 2000 U.S. Presidential Elections wherein Bush "supposedly won" against Al Gore and moved forward to ...

The 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, is considered the most investigated president in U.S. history. The first scandal, commonly known as "Travelgate," involved the White House travel office and the firing of seven employees who were replaced by Clinton's Arkansas f...