… Phone lines are tapped legally but without the owner’s consent, e-mails and credit card numbers are read and stolen, and personal information are becoming not personal any longer. Parties, including the government, special interest groups, as well…

… Stephen E. Atkins book Terrorism, I soon learned many interesting things regarding the history of terrorism. It seems this form of protest has been around since Biblical times. Also, the main goal of a terrorist is not to do damage to one particular…

… Drug War How many people have heard about the Drug War the US is supposedly fighting? A few months ago in another class we were asked whether we thought Marijuana should be legalized in class and seven people were against legalizing it, six were…

… is reaching epidemic proportions, costing US taxpayers an estimated 20 billion dollars in a year, the legalization of drugs cannot be economically justified. Despite pro-legalization arguments, the estimated economic benefit that would be derived from…

… Abortion is one of the most controversial and important subjects of this generation A. 1 in 4 of our generation is not living because they were killed before they were born B. There are even voting blocks that vote purely according to the abortion…

… and overlap each other in meaning. Therefore, political terms often baffle the citizens when they appear in the newspapers or on the news reports. For example, can you distinguish the meaning of civil rights from civil liberties, human rights, and…

… was waged against the United States. Thousands of working men and women were killed in the attacks, leaving the country grieving and angry. On that day, I asked myself, “What could make those people hate America so much that they would do such a terrible…

… society today abortion is a controversial issue. Everybody has their own opinions and their own viewpoints about abortion. There are the pro-choice activists and there are pro-life activists. Whichever side or position one takes, the argument seems…

… in the fashion of an indirect democracy. Citizens live under a social contract whereby individuals agree to forfeit certain rights for the good of the whole. Punishments for crimes against the state are carried out via due process, guaranteed by…

… and industrious nation ruled by the principles of federalism for the past 200 years. The Framers of the Constitution proposed the federal system in an attempt to guarantee democracy and liberty throughout a sparsely populated nation. By granting…