You may have heard Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic Congressman from Ohio, question President Bush’s mental health in light of the comment he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III.

Before educating myself on the history, definition and current usage of [tag]fundamentalism[/tag], I, like many others never thought of it as a particularly “good thing”. It seemed that every time I heard or read the word, it was used in a context along with violence, intolerance and holier than thou attitudes. Whether it be Christian, Islamic or Presbyterian Fundamentalism; remove the dogma and the same person remains.

Every year, on state and federal levels, thousands upon thousands of laws are introduced, passed and executed by the people that you and I elect to represent us …..so we would like to think..
I have already stated, here in The Lang Report, that I believe as Thoreau did when he wrote: “That government is best which governs least”, meaning [...]

Different governmental agencies, charitable organizations and think tanks (public and private) have their own way of defining poverty utilizing charts, tables and statistics.

Campaign financing and lobbying, also known as “influence peddling” are major contributors to the sad demise of our democratic process

We knew from the beginning that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and the rest of the Bush Crime Family threw the America people a “foul ball” as they tried to sell us on invading Iraq based on the [tag]CIA[/tag]’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE).

It is one of those supreme ironies that the United States of America, the “land of the free and the home of the brave”, has the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the world.

Everytime the government attempts to initiate a prohibition, whether it be alcohol, gambling, prostitution, or the infamous “War on Drugs”

[tag]Patriotism[/tag] in its most simplistic terms suggests the loyalty that all citizens owe to their country or nation. With varying degrees of intensity, most Americans claim to be patriotic citizens of the republic. Individual patriotism is voluntary and can be highly emotional as can be witnessed by the singing of the national anthem and displaying the flag.

I can recall few moments in recent memory that our country came together for a common purpose and that I felt proud to be an American. There would be little argument that America is suffering from, among other things, low morale and self-esteem. There is more divisiveness than unity and we may very well be on a collision course with calamity unless massive action is taken. We now have before us, unique opportunities