Is the Volunteer Bill a Predecessor to Conscription

One of the best parts of being in America is that I have the choice on what I want to do. I can opt to serve in the military if I want to; however, I don’t have to if I don’t feel that it is for me. I have my own motives that would entice [...]

Doctors and Psychologists Should Do No Harm

According to an oath approved by the American Medical Association, “you will exercise your art solely for the cure of your patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation, for a criminal purpose, even if solicited, far less suggest it.” One would assume that with that direct quote coming from an oath approved by [...]

Fighting Pirates With Privateers

Since the case last week of the Somali pirates taking Captain Philips hostage and trying to hijack a container ship, there has been a considerable amount of talk on what should be done. I proposed that the world needed to come together and really figure out a way to get rid of the pirates. If [...]

Get Rid of the Embargo on Cuba

Now that President Obama has made the first step into slowly thawing relations between Cuba and the United States, it is important that he does all that he can to finally get rid of this embargo. For as long as I can remember, it has been we are against Cuba because they are a communistic [...]

Mix Keynesianism and Reaganomics

A Republican and a Democrat sit down one day and try to determine what we should do with the economy. The Republican says that we need to lower taxes and get the government out of the business’ faces because only through these acts can we really have any economic growth. The Democrat says that we [...]

The World Needs to Come Together to Deal With the Somali Piracy Issue

If there ever was an opponent that the United States was really not qualified to deal with, it would be four Somali pirates in a small life boat. Even with eight hundred million dollars of destroyer on their side, the United States is still unable to deal with the fact that an American is currently [...]

Stop Spending over 50% of the World’s Defense Budget

Both sides of the political party line can argue that the debt our country has been building is out of this world and each side can point blame at the other side for the cause of it. If we want the most basic and simple cause of our tremendous government debt and the reason we [...]

Americans Need to Stop Jumping the Gun With the Threat of War

On Sunday, despite constant threats of sanctions and the risk of having the nuke shot down, North Korea launched a rocket. According to them, this rocket was to get a satellite into space while in American official’s eyes, this was a chance for them to get more research on how their missile program could be [...]

Tighten the Border to Help Mexico in Their War on Drugs

Since 2006, Mexico’s president has waged a war on the drug cartels that make billions of dollars a year on the exportation of narcotics. By deploying the military and the police, his hope was to get rid of the cartels fast and effectively. Unfortunately for him and Mexico, the drug cartels have continued to prosper, [...]

The Weakness of Reagonomics and Why It Doesn’t Work

This is a guest article submitted to We the People Politics.
Since 1980, the people of the United States have been fed a great, white lie: greed is good. This notion emerged out of the counterrevolutionary devolution of government that began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and has continued on for nearly three [...]