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America was based on freedoms, civil liberties and civil rights. From the American Revolution, Civil War and Civil Rights Era Americans have always possessed the right to express themselves through free speech. Rights like these were guaranteed in the Constitution . However, what happens when a community extends that right to the "razors edge" ? Both Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King proved that through non-violent and peaceful approaches of expression great changes could be effected in a society that may be "temporarily" blind-sided by forgetting its past achievements and gains in human rights. A nation has to regularly sit down and review itself with deep reflection and introspection. However, if the "bureaucracy" of a nation doesn't permit the expression of civil rights or civil liberties which is protected under the Constitution of the United States of America , there can be painful results for any community. America saw major rioting erupt at...

As most Americans know by now, the ACA has been put on delay for an estimated one year, but no real reasons have been brought out to the full public forefront why this could be occurring right in the midst of this steam rolling new agenda. Recently, articles by the New York Times,Reuters as well as a new Gallup Poll from small businesses may reveal some of the screeching halt slowing down the healthcare reform bill. The Gallup Poll asked 603 small businesses how the new healthcare reform might effect them . The responses were quite startling. Forty-Eight percent felt that ACA would hurt their profitability, 41 % had already quit hiring and another 5 % have actually cut down their workforce. This is all in the middle of a 41 % reduction in hiring by U.S. small business noted as of June, 2013. Small businesses have spoken and it isn't promising for what lays ahead for the labor force. Erick Erickson, reporting on the New York Times analysis on his radio show stating that 74% of s...

After a strong long drawn out battle to change the healthcare system in America, the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare) seems to have stalled out. The White House has abruptly halted its efforts to implement perhaps the most extensive and controversial law into effect .Initially it was set to become effective on January 1, 2014. It appears that it will be delayed for another year to 2015. The bill is over 3000 pages long and intends to overhaul the American healthcare system with its most controversial measure, the individual mandate being the centerpiece . The measure calls for every American citizen to "sign up" by law or pay a penalty to opt out. This single item was greatly debated by the U.S. Supreme Court as to the constitutionality of it. Justice Roberts considered healthcare constitutionally backed. Many other critics have argued that nowhere in the constitution is there a provision for healthcare. Justice Roberts,however was able to succes...

Governor Chris Christie's new look has only been mentioned a few times in the media, but it is taking a notice to those who not only follow his campaign , but are followers of his once profound size. This size wasn't just his "big" impact on politics , but the Governor's obesity issue. Back in the fall of 2012 the Governor could be seen stomping around making political speeches, winded, out of breath and even hunched over with coat in arm as he sweated to the next media stop. Soon political pundits that were critical of the governor's political views become more critical of whether an "obese" man could be taken seriously as a presidential candidate and other high offices. Some articles viewed him as a caricature of a politician rather than be taken seriously .Gov. Chris Christie became a target on some late night t.v. talk shows because of his girth as well the affect it appeared to be disabling him toward an effective governorship. Well in late M...

In 1984 both the Coca-Cola Company , the makers of the soft drink Coke and PepsiCo, the makers of Pepsi decided to change the formulation of their beverages in an ongoing bitter rivalry for the number one spot. The change was to stop using table sugar(sucralose) as the primary sweetner for its taste and use what they thought was a more economically feasible and "healthier" choice with High Fructose Corn Syrup(HFCS). The taste was noted by Americans almost immediately and the reaction in Europe was that they didn't want HFCS in their beverages because of its health concerns. This small change launched a geo-political and nutritional "war" that affected the globalization of products in the international markets.Europeans began to either ban or boycott Pepsi and Coke because of HFCS for its cause of obesity. The result of this is that Coke and Pepsi do not sell their products with HFCS in Europe. Fast forward to the USA today. Environmental groups have held the ...