Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Aryeh
Today, in a move that many of us saw as it circled the drain and crossed the threshold between Bill and Law, effectively squandering $170 Billion of the government’s hard-taxed, and hard-printed cash, the Senate passed the House-approved stimulus package to give almost every American a fat, though entirely non-permanent, check in the mail. [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Aryeh
As Jewish boys become men and Jewish girls become women around our Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, we make Bar and Bat Mitzvah projects, which is any project that will make the world a better place. For my Bar Mitzvah Project, I am trying to help the innocent victims of genocide in Darfur. Over 400,000 [...]
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Filed under: Activism, Aryeh, Darfur, Featured Stories, refugees
Posted on July 7th, 2007 by Aryeh
In President Bush’s 4th of July speech, he compared the Iraq War to the Revolutionary War, saying that it was another hard war with no end in sight, and that the Iraq War would end in the same way, with glory and that there would be a good outcome. As soon as I read [...]
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Filed under: 4th of July, Aryeh, Declaration of Independence, George W. Bush, Opinion, Secondary Featured Stories, U.S. Military
Posted on July 4th, 2007 by Aryeh
Alex recently posted about the Scooter Libby case, where he said that republicans think that the lawmakers are above the law. He is, of course, totally correct, and I would like to elaborate.
I believe that, since lawmakers are supposed to make laws, so I believe that any lawmaker that breaks the law should [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Corruption, Government, Opinion, Scooter Libby, Secondary Featured Stories, courts, crime
Posted on June 30th, 2007 by Aryeh
Why don’t we kill three birds with one stone, fix both our immigration woes, the bad economy of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico simultaneously, and stop the Mexican sweatshops with one, final motion? America should take initiative and set up an American Union, like the EU. We would be able to have smoother immigration talks, [...]
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Filed under: Activism, Aryeh, Congress, Economy, Environment, Europe, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, Government, Immigration, Labor Issues, NAFTA, Opinion
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by Aryeh
In 2004, Barack Obama was apparently not thinking about the 2008 presidential race, so, in hindsight, I think that Obama wished that he had never visited a small coal-mining town 300 miles from Chicago. At the time, the 2008 presidential candidate was trying to show that he was not a traditional Democrat while gaining the [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Barack Obama, Economy, Election 2008, Environment, Featured Stories, Health, Opinion, Politics
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Aryeh
Have you ever noticed that whenever there is some big scandal going on in the Bush administration, Bush arranges some surprise historical even to take place to take the attention off of him? Take the latest thing; Alberto Gonzales, one of Bush’s serious chums, was about to be practically strung up by Congress and [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Corruption, George W. Bush, Politics, Republicans, Secondary Featured Stories, War on Iraq, War on Terror, violence
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Aryeh
Agent Orange, a herbicide and defoliant that was used in the Vietnam War to destroy the crops of the enemy Viet-Kong and the forests that they used to hide is, once again coming under fire in a courtroom. The suit was filed (and is now being appealed) against the American companies that created the [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Foriegn Affairs, Government, Medical News, U.S. Military
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Aryeh
In a recent NPR article, Zainab Salbi, the president of Women for Women International said that, often times, refugee camps will have special areas for rape victims, an area for people whose family has died, and other such areas so as to label refugees for reporters. The dehumanization of refugees (which is kind of reminicent [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, Government, Moral Issues, Opinion, War on Terror, Women's Rights, refugees
Posted on June 17th, 2007 by Aryeh
I saw the picture at JPost.com and just had to tell everyone…Stupid terrorist
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Filed under: Aryeh, Terrorism