Americans oppose a new Ronald Reagan $50 bill. A Marist College poll on Thursday, April 22, 2010 found that 79 percent of Americans oppose Rep. Patrick McHenry's proposal to use Ronald Reagan's image on the new $50 dollar bill rather than former president Ulysses S. Grant. McHenry (Rep., North...
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and considered the last Founding Father of America from the Virginia Dynasty and Republican generation. Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Spence Monroe, a planter and carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones, an...
A Bloomberg National Poll of 1,000 Americans conducted between December 4 until December 7, 2010 found that 51 percent of respondents feel "worse off" under Obama's administration. Over two thirds of the respondents also indicated the feeling that the nation is "headed in the wrong direction."...
Riots display human beings acting at their worst. Usually the result of political or social turmoil, most riots rely on killing, raping, looting and widespread destruction to get their point across. After examining the tolls that riots take on society, we have to wonder whether this is an effective...
Liz Cheney, former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, has attacked the justice department lawyers who represented Guantanamo Bay detainees. On the “Keep America Safe” website owned and operated by Liz and through conservative media, by posting a video and photos of the "Al Qaeda Seven." Liz's...
Atheism is generating quite a lot of attention these days. Prominent atheists are getting the word out about their views in increasing numbers and generating lots of public debate on the proper place of religion in governments and societies in the modern world. And now more than ever, atheists...
Born in 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was the first female leader of a Muslim state in 1988. At 16, Benazir Bhutto attended Harvard University where she attained a degree in Comparative Government. At 20 she moved to Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford where she studied Philosophy,...
