Your vote counts. Don't let anyone tell you that it doesn't. It isn't true. Our whole government system is based on the right to vote. That was a reason that the 15th and subsequently 19th Amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution. There was a lot of effort to give everyone this basic fundamental right. If history alone isn't enough to convince you, then perhaps this will.
Your vote is your voice. It is really that simple. If you don't vote, you don't have a voice. Remember, it doesn't count if you don't cast it.
See, there is this misconception that
April Showers…
by Eric M. Blake April 2nd, 2012 | Conservative Considerations, General Politics, Presidential Election
While there are times where I find myself “tacking on” my thoughts on something to my articles, as a rule, I always have a specific main subject — one main point to bring to the table. This week, however, I feel the need to bring more than one, in the tradition of Ronald Rowe’s excellent “Winners & Losers” column. Of course, I’m not one to plagiarize — and besides, for one of these subjects, the winner and the loser will be unknown until June. So — without further ado…
We’re Number One!
Sounds good, I know…but of course, there’s a catch.
We’re Number One!
Sounds good, I know…but of course, there’s a catch.
Why Make Employers Pay? A View from Canada
by Jane Wangersky March 30th, 2012 | Political Opinions
As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders whether it's constitutional to require citizens to buy health insurance, we residents of Canada (I'm a dual citizen) might be expected to shrug and say, "So what? We've been forced to buy health insurance since 1966."
In fact, I don't want to get into that question -- I want to focus on something that's seemingly been forgotten in the recent debates. I don't mean the birth control question, exactly. When I heard that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act meant employers would have to pay for employees' birth control, my reaction was not
In fact, I don't want to get into that question -- I want to focus on something that's seemingly been forgotten in the recent debates. I don't mean the birth control question, exactly. When I heard that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act meant employers would have to pay for employees' birth control, my reaction was not
Mostly Winners
by Ronald A. Rowe March 28th, 2012 | Political Opinions, Presidential Election, Winners & Losers
OK, I admit that I was a little on the cynical side last week. So to make up for it I've actively tried to find more Winners than Losers this time around. It took a sometimes creative definition of Winner and more than a little bit of sarcasm, but I hereby present the Mostly-Winners edition of Winners and Losers.
WINNERS:
Dick Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney got a heart transplant this week, supposedly from an anonymous donor. Pretty good for a 71-year-old with a 30 year+ history of heart attacks.
The Hunger Games
The books were beloved by more than just the
WINNERS:
Dick Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney got a heart transplant this week, supposedly from an anonymous donor. Pretty good for a 71-year-old with a 30 year+ history of heart attacks.
The Hunger Games
The books were beloved by more than just the
Imagine All the People Living Life In Peace
by Jason Lightner March 27th, 2012 | Independent Ideas
Let's continue that message of peace and unity from last week, shall we?
Every day of my waking life, I marvel at the grand scope of it all – how we're the Universe experiencing itself; how we are all the same atoms that were strewn about billions upon billions of years ago in spiraling clouds of gas and stardust that eventually created the galaxies we know and the world that we know. I think about human understanding, exploration, curiosity. I sit in amazement that we can live in a time where we can actually see the beginnings of our
Every day of my waking life, I marvel at the grand scope of it all – how we're the Universe experiencing itself; how we are all the same atoms that were strewn about billions upon billions of years ago in spiraling clouds of gas and stardust that eventually created the galaxies we know and the world that we know. I think about human understanding, exploration, curiosity. I sit in amazement that we can live in a time where we can actually see the beginnings of our
