Articles from this Author
Latest Articles
-
by James William Smith - 2008-11-21
In 1974, there was a futuristic television show called The Six Million Dollar Man. The popular show ran for four years and featured the adventures of astronaut, Steve Austin (Lee Majors). The show be...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-11-06
Over one million people worldwide die in motor vehicle accidents every year. Studies have found that more than 90% of all motor vehicle accidents involve some degree of human error.So, we should all ...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-10-29
Nearly two decades ago, eighteen major American cities adopted the phrase "Sanctuary City" to be used in connection with illegal immigrants who reside within their jurisdiction. The term created a pr...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-10-22
Fear and emotion are the rule every day in the global financial markets. We have seen shock and awe financial bailout plans, the overnight consolidation of many troubled financial services giants, an...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-10-14
In 2008, scientists from all over the world are jumping off the man-made global warming bandwagon. This is due to the fact that environmental study after study concludes that the behavior of man is n...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-10-14
For the third straight year, it is about to be put to a vote of the United Nations General Assembly. This non-binding Resolution on "Combating the Defamation of Religion" is an annual reminder of how...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-10-07
The most clever advertisement on television today is when the Maytag repairman saves the day at a polling booth by holding up a handful of crumpled ballots that he has just removed from a voting mach...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-10-07
If you were on trial, would you want the jury verdict before your defense was heard? If you are making a very important personal decision, would you want to decide before considering all the pertinen...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-09-27
There can be no dispute that the ice over the Arctic is melting pretty fast. Satellite pictures clearly show the extent of the decrease in Arctic ice during the last several years. In fact, observati...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-09-27
Every year the impact to American society will continue to get worse without a dramatic reform of our broken federal immigration system. In the year 2000, there were an estimated seven million illega...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-09-15
The No Child Left Behind Act certainly had an ambitious goal. It mandated that all students tested in reading and math would reach grade level by the year 2014.Six years ago, when the law was passed,...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-09-15
The Hubble has given us pictures of merging galaxies, asteroids, new galaxies, the rings around Uranus, and other planets. It has given scientists insights into star formation and star death. The Hub...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-08-04
The campaign of Republican John McCain has just released two web videos which highlight what the campaign feels is a national media bias in favor of Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential ele...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-07-30
In a Rasmussen telephone poll taken recently, voters were asked whether America's best days were ahead or behind it. In the poll's findings, 32% of those polled thought that the nation's best days we...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-07-30
There is a new psychiatric malady reported in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Dr. Joshua Wolf and Dr. Robert Sato of the Royal Children's Hospital have documented a case of a "p...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-07-20
Many of us grew up watching friendly Kermit the Frog on a television show called Sesame Street. Certainly, we can remember reading the fairy tale of the frog that turns into a handsome prince after r...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-07-13
Most major international stock indices are dropping fast. In fact, stock markets in Asia, the United Kingdom, and Europe have all now seen the fury of the bear. A bear market is generally defined as ...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-07-13
It was all so well planned over the last seven years. Beijing 2008 was to be China's coming out party to the world. Spending billions of dollars on Beijing's Olympic venues was to be a statement of C...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-07-07
Its price tag was 500 million dollars in 1990. It certainly was a lot of money to pay for a telescope that circled the Earth and could not focus. A faulty mirror on the Hubble was the reason the expe...
-
by James William Smith - 2008-06-30
For many years, the United States taxpayer has helped sustain the corrupt, bureaucratic organization known as the United Nations. In fact, the United States continues to fund more than $5 billion of ...
