1: It's Not Easy Being Green
Life if full of ethical dilemmas, and many of the decisions we make in life contradict themselves. I've realised as I've got older, not to be worried about these contradictions. It would be lovely to ...

2: Football And Politics In Catalunia
On Sunday Spain deservedly won the Euro 2008 final against Germany. In the Catalan capital of Barcelona as much as in the Spanish capital of Madrid, people poured into the streets to pour fireworks into the night's sky and honk car horns....

3: John McCain is Out of Touch
John McCain's campaign is out of touch with the American public because it does not use a text message element as Obama's and Clinton's does....

4: Anambra Statewide Condom Ban
Anambra is one of Nigeria’s most densely populated states with the 2006 census showing 4.1 million residents. The villages and towns are densely populated with anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 residents l...

5: Why I am Running for President: Special Victims Unit
Presidential candidates assure us that they love all Americans. But they especially love Americans who have been victimized in ways that reinforce their campaign platform....

6: Spain - Women Take Top Positions
The world was robbed by an assasin earlier this year of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, who might well have become Pakistan's leader. There was once a time when having a woman in a powerful political pos...

7: What Next For Bahrain?
Bahraini liberals have responded to the growing power of religious parties by organizing themselves to campaign through civil society in order to defend basic personal freedoms from being legislated away....

8: What Has France's New President Done For The Country
A look at some of the changes implemented by the latest French premier and some of his motives behind the changes....

9: University Embroiled in Debate About Birth Control
It is always funny to me when I read about things that have ballooned into a major controversy. Recnelty, I read that the University of South Carolina is embroiled in a controversy over its promotion...

10: Safe Sex Education in the USA
Sex education in American schools, and especially the teaching of safe sex and contraceptives in sex education classes, is a heavily debated matter in the USA. This debate is centered mainly on wheth...

11: Safe Sex Lessons in School Continue to Cause Controversy
School systems have long been battling with the topic of safe sex and how to teach it to their students. Some school systems have taken the stance that the only true form of safe sex is to abstain fr...

12: Did Obama's Arrogance Trump His Intelligence?
It's my friends in the South and Midwest that are crying "foul." These folks are white, Reagan Democrats or Arnold Republicans. They are centrist, patriotic and by many experts the so-called swing vote....

13: The Cure for Recession: Withdraw from Iraq
Cincinnati, OH – Each week as Americans struggle to find money to fill their gas tanks, buy milk, and pay their mortgage – the government is spending $2 billion tax dollars in Iraq. And as the price...

14: Is Traditional Politics Dead?
The poor vote one way and the rich another. Those neither rich nor poor get caught square in the middle or "middle class" as it is often called. The Twilight Zone might be a more appropriate name....

15: Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos: The Ninja Option?
For those aspiring Robinson Crusoe's among you, Op. Chaos is a brilliant creation of Rush Limbaugh. What he has done is to give all those Conservatives who have missed out on voting against John McCain a new voting life by way of switching parties and becoming "Shadow Democrats" for the remaining DNC primaries....

16: Disillusionment And Hope
The complexity of the human heart allows us to hope for something and to expect that we will be disappointed in it at the same time, to maintain ideals, and believe that they will never be realized at the same time Holding these dual views defines the nature of disillusionment – the profound sense that one’s most cherished hopes will not materialize in one’s lifetime or in the space of time in which the heart feels things should or must happen...

17: Poverty in Africa
Poverty in Africa Africa is a continent with plenty of natural resources is indisputable. Yet people in Africa are characterized and decrepit by endemic hunger, genocides, wars, corruption, massive ...

18: A McCain-Giuliani Ticket? It’s Not So Far Fetched
I am not on the inside of any presidential campaign, but I consider myself to be a good student of politics And as a writer, I have the luxury of going against the grain on campaigns and issues...

19: Barack Obama Can
Even though Barack Obama has only served in national office for three years, his ability to, as State Sen Donne Trotter, a Democrat, says, be "a quick read, a quick study" compensates for the lack of experience...

20: What Next For Rudy Giuliani?
On March 13, 2008 Rudy Giuliani pitched in for McCain who had to go vote in the senate Rudy headlined a $1000 a plate luncheon for McCain saying that he believed that the Republicans could win Pennsylvania...

21: Can Women Govern?
The answer to that question can be found in the historical record From September 23, 1953 to July 7, 1954,Sühbaataryn Yanjmaa acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the People’s Great Khural of Mongolia making her the first women political ruler in contemporary history (except for queens)...

22: It’s All In The Mind - A Psychiatrist’s Take On The ‘08 Presidential Race
McCain’s anger is well known, but it’s understanding what led to it that really helps you predict where it might take him Similarly, we are all familiar with Hillary’s do-anything-to-win persona, but only when we learn what fuels it can we understand its power and, therefore, her ultimate fate...

23: On Moral And Charismatic Politicians
The media has passed enough judgment on former New York governor Elliott Spitzer and I agree with the pundits on all sides; there’s no possible defense for his extracurricular behavior and he is not above the law But these past events show that we must consider the behavior that we expect from our elected officials in their public, and sometimes private, lives...

24: Right Teaches The Centre-Left How To Hit The Rich
For decades left of centre political parties in Europe have been trying to tax the most affluent in society, but have been scared off from doing their worst by centre-right Conservative Parties and th...

25: Breached Security
Once again our leaders in the Bush administration have shown how little we are protected If they can’t even protect the private passport records of our presidential candidates how can we expect them to stop the bomb in the shopping mall, the suitcase nuke coming across the southern board or the millions of containers that arrive at our ports everyday – unexamined...