Browsing the archives for the Politics category
When President George W. Bush signed the Homeland Security Act into law in 2002, it was part of the largest reorganization of the American government since 1947. It also came to be the most diverse merger of federal functions, because it combined 22 government agencies into one organizations. The Homeland Security Act was a direct [...]
My brother called on Friday to tell me that he’d be riding in the Rolling Thunder this weekend. I saw last night on the news that they had a great turnout of motorcycles and parade viewers along the procession route in Washington DC, and that they even had the pleasure of President Bush come to [...]
I have no idea why I am so fascinated with earthquakes, but I have a morbid curiousity with them. I look at the USGS earthquake maps almost every day. I see patterns and clusters of quakes and it is amazing how Mother Nature can impact our daily lives with such unpredictable occurrences as earthquakes and [...]
There has been so much speculation about global warming and the climate changes we are experiencing in North America. I know the winters are not as cold and snowfilled as when I was a kid, but we do seem to have a lot more severe thunderstorms and tornado threats. Again tonight we are having severe [...]
I find it very interesting that the citizens in the U.K. get much more care and compassion from their government than we do here in the U.S. They take workplace safety very seriously, and back it up with laws to punish the corporate offenders. The new Corporate Manslaughter Act goes into full force and effect [...]