Tips on How to Win the Big Poker Tournament
by Mia Palermos, Mia. 50 Hands A Day:Whenever I am getting ready for a poker tournament I try to play at least 50 hands, every single day in an online poker room and on the weekends I go to the casinos and play 100 hands a day and sometimes I play right thru the day and...

Geothermal Generated Electricity - Is It a Viable Energy Option?
by Paul Calhoun, Pau. It is increasingly being recognized that the world has to replace fossil fuels with alternate fuels. This recognition is being driven by three premises:First: Fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas, are accelerating in cost as they are consumed in...

The Commander In Chief Has The Vapors.... Again
by Burk Pendergrass, Bur. The Forty Second (42nd) President of The United States of America and his loving spouse must remember that although they currently reside in New York and rub elbows with high society they are the Clintons from Arkansas - not the Kennedy's from...

12 George Washington Quotes to Remember His Birthday
by Noel Jameson, Noe. Why are George Washington quotes so remarkable? Once in a rare while a great man is born - a man who changes the world for the better and leaves his mark for posterity. George Washington was one of these men and his words are words to live by. As we...

Barack Obama a Candidate for Christians
by Kim Sunshine, Kim. First let me begin this article by stating that I understand the sentiment to have an African-American president. Although you couldn't tell it from my photo my grandfather William Johnson was an African American, he married a white woman in the...

The Humiliation Of A Proud Country
by Terrence Aubrey, Ter. Anyone visiting Kyiv the capital of The Ukraine could mistakenly presume that this is a country in good health and finding its way in the 21st century. It is only through travelling beyond the capital that the scale of this countries problems become...

Can Sustainable Development Be Clean AND cheap? A Promising 'Carbon Cr..
by Daniel Lafleche, Dan. Must the costs of clean development necessarily be prohibitive for developing nations?Let's take a closer look at exactly how this is called into question.There is a common belief that the most efficient way to rein in greenhouse gas emissions is to...

Momma Always Told You, Don't Play In The Street
by Burk Pendergrass, Bur. In the cold early morning hours of Saturday, February 16th, 2008, before the St Valentine's Day Celebrities had subsided, about Twenty (20) miles South of Washington, D.C., Eight (8) people lay dead in the street along Route 210, a four lane...

Should a global climate agreement hold the US to a higher environmenta..
by Paul Calhoun, Pau. Yes, the US should be held to a higher environmental standard than the rest of the world. We have benefited from a superior economic growth powered by consumption of a major share of the world's fossil fuels, causing a major share of the world's...

Tips on Getting Ready for a Poker Tournament
by Mia Palermos, Mia. Play More:In poker the more hands you play the more you learn and it does not matter how much you think you know. If you really want to win that big poker tournament you should be spending no less then 5 hours a day playing poker against good...

Politics and the Burmese Ruby Boycott
by Marc Choyt, Mar. A few years ago, my wife and I purchased from our Thai suppliers some rubies that were probably from Burma. We wondered what the conditions were under which they were mined and cut, and if owning rubies from Burma was out of alignment with our...

What Does L.I.A.R. Stand For And How Will It Affect The 2008 President..
by John Dejong, Joh. In the past few years our elected Republicans have completely turned away from Conservative principles and have actually promoted Liberal doctrine. We have seen this in the out-of-control spending and unjustified beliefs in junk science and more...

Antique History, Democracy - Slow Boat To China
by Derek Dashwood, Der. Ancient Greece lifted the souls of men of imagination and thoughts they had wanted to express for ages. But in ancient Egypt there was no time for that; all rules and thoughts of any worth were by decree by the reigning Pharaoh of Egypt. Greece was...

Hillary vs. Obama Time Will Tell!
by Daniel Millions, Dan. The main dominant figures in today's elections that will define the following president in America history are Hillary Clinton from New-York and Barack Obama from Illinois . According to the latest results of votes Clinton won in 3 states:...

National Health Care Reform Will Determine the Next President of the U..
by Jack Deal, Jac. To say the USA is in a health care crisis is an understatement. The United States is the only First World nation without some sort of universal health care coverage. The reason that countries like Britain and Canada and Germany have universal...

John McCain Is In For a Rough Ride
by Alex Nobles, Ale. The biggest news so far this election, is former front runner Mitt Romney dropping out of the race. Where will this lead the country? Will Huckabee or Ron Paul step up and seriously challenge John McCain, or will the party just join together to beat...

Antique History, American Thoreau - Inspired Gandhi How to Free India
by Derek Dashwood, Der. The recent news may have been historic. As Emerson noted, while he and his friend Thoreau would read and discuss the ideas of the ages, others would shout loudly about another train derailment, or an uprising in the west, and other events that make...

Can the USA Be Fossil Fuels Independent by 2050?
by Paul Calhoun, Pau. This question is becoming a key cornerstone in our prediction for the health and prosperity of the future United States of America. Experts are beginning to predict that our worldwide sources for crude oil will have peaked in production by 2050 at...

The False Promise Of Ethanol
by Klaus H Hemsath, Kla. Ethanol is being promoted as one of the solutions for controlling global warming. US Congress has followed this reasoning and has provided a subsidy for ethanol production in the amount of $0.51 per gallon. This subsidy created a minor boom in corn...

Texas Primary May Decide Democratic Party Nominee
by Eric Bramlett, Eri. The presidential primary March 4th in Texas may decide which Democrat faces the likely Republican Party nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the final two Democrats left, face off in a tough, high-profile...

The Enactment of the Fair Tax Plan - The First Twenty Years
by John Dejong, Joh. This is a fictional work of mine on what I think United States will look like after the first twenty years that the Fair Tax Plan has become law.It's been twenty years since Congress enacted the Fair Tax and abolished the 16th Amendment. All...

Now Who Was It That Said, Washington Is Broken?
by John Dejong, Joh. This is perhaps the most bizarre Republican Primary Election that I've ever witnessed. As a matter of fact, the entire GOP looks like it is going over the edge. In my mind, it is an unholy alliance that my party has wrapped its arms around the most...

Sustainable Development: The Role of Coal
by Daniel Lafleche, Dan. The debate over the future of America's energy policy is heating up, and it is liable to reach temperatures of near-combustion amidst the politics of this explosive election season. One industry that has long been a pillar of the American energy...

A-Z of Global Warming: The Amazon
by Simon Rosser, Sim. IntroductionThis article is the first in a series of articles which will take the reader on an alphabetic journey on global warming, commencing with A for Amazon.The phrase global warming is a term that has been in common usage for some time and...

What is the Outlook for the Availability of Fossil Fuels?
by Paul Calhoun, Pau. I think this article is comparable to the people who slow down on the highway to look at an automobile accident. You are not involved in the accident, yet you surely are curious about what is happening. At the present time we can sense the presence...