Effective Government

Everyone is talking about the possiblity of there being a recession. How horrible! Ok, so I guess it is really not that great, but that's life. Just from everyone talking about it, spending has supposedly decreased which is bad for the economy and all.  Read More »

Now all information for this will be from
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp
I am using the "Total Spent" only for this.  Read More »

Could a text message voting system work for the presidential election?  Read More »

I come from a middle class family. We are not poor, and by no means wealthy. Recently, I have been offered two opportunities to travel for educational purposes. One, to Costa Rica to take advanced Spanish classes, and the other, to San Fransisco to the National Youth Leadership Forum On Medicine. The cost for both of these is over 2,000 dollars.  Read More »

"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will be Killed With Our Families", a book written by Philip Gourevitch answered a lot of questions for me about the genocide in Rwanda. Yes, I've seen the movie, but it still didnt make sense to me. If explained in the movie Hotel Rwanda why the Tutsis were being eliminated by the Hutus, i must've missed it.  Read More »

I love our founding fathers. They had the greatest ideas, but it has often taken decades, or even centuries, before anyone decided to implement them. John Jay wanted to abolish slavery through the Constitution, but, as we all know, this did not come about until 1865 at the end of the Civil War. Benjamin Franklin came up with Daylight Savings Time, but that was not used until World War II.  Read More »

How many times has your car been victim to the unexpected and unwanted pigeon dropping. How many times have you been a victim to pigeon droppings. Well no more! Pigeons are overpopulated in New York City and City Councilman Simcha Felder has declared war on the “rats with wings”. He plans on introducing a ban by initiating a $1,000 fine on the pigeon feeders.  Read More »

As I am sure many of you have already heard, New York's governor, Eliot Spitzer, is (still allegedly) involved in a Prostitution Ring scandal that has been under investigation. He was caught on a Federal wiretap communicating with a prostitute from the "Emperors Club VIP" prostitution ring.  Read More »