SYcowl.com Politics
Current News
| The American Revolution is also an unfinished enterprise. Each generation must do its part to carry on the work. ~ Richard M. Nixon 1972 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
News to watch: (updated September 28, 2010)
- What is happening in Colorado?~GOV RACE -
SYcowl - HealthCare mandate - DOJ says it is a tax (they can't
defend constitutionality if it is not) but Pres. says it is
not a tax. ~ New York Times - Napolitano: Internet Monitoring Needed to Fight
Homegrown Terrorism - Fox News - Election and Voter Fraud....What to Look For! -
ResistNet.com - Risk of small-scale attacks by al-Qaeda and its allies
is rising, officials say - Washington Post - John Stossel's Blog. Always a good take on current
events. - John Stossel's Take - Four Colorado Supreme Court justices have made
partisan judgements while not upholding the state
constitution. - Denver Post - Obama Tax Hikes: The Economic and Fiscal Effects
- The Heritage Foundation - New U.S. Push to Regulate Internet Access - WSJ
- Health insurers get a small percentage of overall
health care spending - PolitiFact - True Drivers of Health Care Costs
- LA Times actually guts ObamaCare.
- The Other Hand « What is happening while we all
watch big news items - Timeline of Major Provisions in the Health Care
Package - U.S. National Debt Clock: Real Time
| "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine |
- au·thor·i·tar·i·an - of or pertaining to a governmental or political
system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as
completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state,
centered either in one person or a small group that is not
constitutionally accountable to the people. - de·moc·ra·cy - government by the people; a form of government in
which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised
directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral
system. - so·cial·ism - a theory or system of social organization that advocates
the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production
and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. - tyr·an·ny - arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic
abuse of authority. - fas·cism - a governmental system led by a dictator having complete
power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all
industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism
and often racism. - com·mu·nism - 1) a theory or system of social organization based
on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being
ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. 2) (often initial
capital letter) a system of social organization in which all economic
and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a
single and self-perpetuating political party. - cap·i·tal·ism - an economic system in which investment in and
ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of
wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or
corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned
means of wealth.
| from: Dictionary Reference |