The NATO war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, one which former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev terms “unwinnable,” is sapping America in both spirit and finance. Many of our troops and much of our population have no clear idea of why we are there and what we hope to achieve.Now, a new study claims the cost of the conflict will be 25 percent higher than previously stated. And with no end in sight, the costs will keep rising for our nation already trillions of dollars in debt from the Bush and now Obama years.To date 2,174 NATO troops have died there or later from wounds received in the conflict.... Read More

Are the people of America going to do anything about the direction this country is going? Have we all became so lazy and complacent that we are going to sit around and just let these corrupt politicians make our decisions for us?

I'm not talking about just the goons in office now but those that want in office too. We need another Reagan--someone that believes in this country. I've attended the teaparty movements but I'm still not sure they have the answers either.

The average middle class American doesn't seem to have a voice anymore. It's so expensive just to maintain a comfortable... Read More

For more than 40 years social scientist investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanation like lord voldemort: that which most not be name. The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that erupted after Daniel Patrick Moynihan introduce the idea of a culture of poverty to the public in a startling 1965 report. The term culture in this case is define as: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution organization or group. His description of the Urban black family as caught in an inescapable tangle of pathology of unmarried... Read More

People always hear about terrorism; they would like to know how it started and the way it developed. This article is going to brief the origins of terrorism.

The very first existence of terrorism was heard between the 1st Century BCE and the -13th Century. From there, it spread in the Pre-Modern World.

Actually, this means that the history of terrorism is as old as humans' willingness to use violence to settle conflicts with neighbours and this has spread until it became used in politics as to hinder and intimidate people’s opinions for development. In this view, the Sicarii were... Read More

Say what you like about Helen Thomas but don't lose sight of what she gave women across the country and Americans as a whole, as far as representing us during every Presidential press conference. She never stopped asking the tough questions. Never. It was 1970, a time when men worked and the majority of women stayed at home. But you would have never known it following Helen Thomas. In fact, I'm pretty sure she didn't get that memo or wire, in those days. Following the death of my father, then Dean of the White House Press Corps, Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas stepped in as Dean of the White House... Read More

Well it no news that the communism has collapsed, and communist Leaders are fleecing six figure honoraria fees, for speeches devoted to the ridiculous idea that we did not win the cold war,it's time we reidentify today's biggest threat to the american way of life.. it's definitely what Limbaugh called the socialist utopian. Despite what it sounds like, they are not a rock group from MTV or a new age religious cult from Southern Boston. They are a great many people who belong to this or that activist group. there is a common bond which spiritually unite these people, which is that attitude of... Read More

WaterAid America is a company that is working to help bring about world awareness when it comes to illness and the lack of clean drinking water that many people in our world face. Did you know, that 4,000 children die each day due to illnesses they get from drinking unclean water. The goal of WaterAid is to eradicate this problem and they are working with megree to bring about global awareness of this problem.

They are asking people to make a donation and to blog about this cause. WaterAid is currently lobbying the UN to make water a human right and I believe that they are right.