Every law is enacted with some purpose. It helps to regulate and stimulate the growth of the society. However, sometimes the authorities concerned who enact a law and who are at the helm of affairs entrusted with the responsibility of implementing the law, remain dormant, thereby making the law a mere ornament in the showcase. […]
Line in the Sand
Discussion may have once been a means to an end. What is it today? I can offer, to anyone who has a working definition, that discussion is a relationship between people as people exchange accurate data. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GIR20080511&articleId=8942 Suppose people exchange inaccurate data and suppose someone claims that such an example of exchanging […]
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee recommends disciplinary action against 32 MPs
When we trace the evolution and development of the Indian Parliament what it is today, its history has to be traced back to the British India. Since 1909, the Indian Parliament began to grow gradually from the stage of a council, in which the Indian people were also allowed either to contest or got an […]
Women Don’t Ask? No, Employers Don’t Pay
This is a cross-post by Ellen Bravo, former director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women and author of Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business and the Nation. Congratulations, working women! As of today, your salary since January 1, 2007, has finally reached the total earned by your male […]
History Happening: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman Found
Max Watts, Annandale, Australia March, 2008: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman have been found: Oh ! said my American Friend: “I didn’t even know they were lost !” They were. They had been. The Sydney and the Kormoran, together, since 1941. Grossman – perhaps linked, – since 1951. Of Grossman(n), more below. Now, March 2008, 67 […]
Navarette: Clinton Could Lose Latino Vote
Ruben Navarrette Jr. says that Hillary Clinton could retrace steps back and look back to losing the Latino voters if she loses the Democratic nomination. So far, Barack Obama has been gaining a marginal lead over Hillary Clinton in delegates ever since the Super Tuesday contests on February 5. He says that it is possible […]