Lowering the Drinking Age Ever since the end of prohibition in 1933 the United States government has placed the issue of MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) sensitively in the hands of the states. letting each decide for itself what the minimum age should be. At that time all agreed that the minimu...

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka was the landmark case that resulted in desegregating of public schools. On May 17,1954, the United States Supreme Court issued an unanimous decision that it was unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection clause) to separate children ...

For many Canadians the value of the Loonie is a sensitive subject; the ever-rising and falling of the dollar affect the everyday lives of Canadians. The value of the Loonie is like any other currency and rises and falls with global trends, yet, the largest economic trend to influence the Loonie is t...

It was a great joy of mine to live during the times of Thomas Jefferson. Having not ever met Mr. Jefferson was the one thing that I will forever regret. It was twenty-seven years ago in 1800 that Thomas Jefferson became President of this splendid land.1 It is still fictitious in my mind to thi...

It was a great joy of mine to live during the times of Thomas Jefferson. Having not ever met Mr. Jefferson was the one thing that I will forever regret. It was twenty-seven years ago in 1800 that Thomas Jefferson became President of this splendid land.1 It is still fictitious in my mind to thin...

The educational community is clearly unsettled by the President's "NoChild Left behind Act" (NCLB) of 2001. Even though one of the strongestplanks of the president's platform was his promise to address the falteringperformance of the US educational system, the resulting bill had sentshivers of...

Americans have just witnessed what may stand in historical perspectiveas the onset of a new era. That is, the terrorist bombing of the WorldTrade Center on September 11th. The World Wars represented for most peoplethe depth of carnage, brutality and government excess that is possible whenthe ...

Interracial RelationshipsInterracial relationships have been a topic of controversy since the time of slavery, when slave owners had relations with young, black female slaves. As the years went on, white men felt themselves to be superior to Africans, and treated them as though they were lower in cl...

Chris SearlsPublic PolicyDrug ProhibitionUnder the United States Constitution the federal government is charged with the responsibilities to protect our individual, as well as collective, rights to life and liberty. Often times this charge leads the various branches of the federal government to cre...

Interracial RelationshipsInterracial relationships between white and black Americans have been a topic of controversy in the United States since the time of slavery, when slave owners had relations with young, black female slaves. As the years went on, many whites felt themselves to be superior to ...