Politics People Flip Flop On
With the political arena really heating up the closer we get to November, all issues are on the table. It seems that whatever one side has to say, the other takes the opposite viewpoint. This has been going on for so long, I've noticed that now sides are opposing their own stances! Here is a list of five debatable topics in politics people flip flop on. I wonder if someone can explain to me how you can want one thing, but do another? Read more...
Categories: Politics Tags: barack obama, corporations, deregulation, gaddafi, iraq, libya, Rick Santorum, saddam hussein, unions, women's rights
Five Last Meals Of Convicted Criminals
This week, Texas decided to take away a prisoner's last meal after convicted murderer Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered a large dinner as his last meal and then refused to eat it. Lawmakers said "enough is enough" and have cancelled this tradition from the Texas death row. Do you think this is right? Should prisoners sentenced to death be given a last meal? Almost all societies, all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, offer their prisoners a last meal. In Middle Age Europe, the last meal was thought of as a peace offering from the judge, jury, and executioner to the condemned person. By giving them one last meal, they felt that the ghost of the person would not haunt them. Additionally, a large last meal (combined with lots of alcohol) often calms the condemned person's nerves before being executed - which, in turn, makes it easier for justice to be carried out. Throughout the years, there have been some odd choices for last meals. Here are five of them. Read more...
Thanks Ronald Reagan For Ruining The U.S.
I know, these words are blasphemous in the minds of people all over the United States, but I just wanted to personally thank Ronald Reagan for his policies and shortcomings while in office. If it hadn't been for Ronald Reagan, the world would be a much different place. Maybe, even a better place! You're probably asking yourself, "But isn't he one of the best Presidents the United States ever had?" Read this and you can decide.
Five of the Most Evil Rulers of the Twentieth Century
With disasters striking the world, it is hard to imagine that we sometimes bring on this devastation ourselves, but man has an instinct to hurt his fellow man. Some of these people take this evil too far and fall into a list like this. Here are five people that rank as the most evil in the last century- each one a little worse than the first! Read more...
Categories: History Tags: adolf hitler, idi amin, Josef stalin, pol pot, saddam hussein, slobodan milosevich
