Tips on Installing Solar Power Panels
What type of solar energy capture system you put on your home depends on your needs. If you want to go full tilt and generate usable electricity from your home’s rooftop, tried and true photovoltaic arrays might be just the ticket.
Women's Advocacy Orgs. Applaud Biden Pick
The same day Barack Obama announced his decision to select Joe Biden as his running mate, three major national women's health and advocacy organizations expressed strong approval of the decision.
New Bush Rules Confuse Birth Control with Abortion
Despite a public outcry, which included over 325,000 signatures on a petition, the Bush administration has moved forward with new Health and Human Services regulations that deliberately confuse birth control with abortion.
New Web Site Reveals McCain to be 'Worse than Bush'
Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.
The Scoop on Recycling Bottle Caps and Lids
Many municipal recycling programs throughout the U.S. still do not accept plastic lids, tops and caps even though they take the containers that accompany them. The reason is that they are not typically made of the same kinds of plastics as their containers and therefore should not be mixed together with them.
Editorial: A Response to Investors.com and Right-wing Media Bias
A recent Investors.com online editorial, 'Finding Friends On the Far, Far Left,' of August 20, 2008, provides a welcome opportunity for PoliticalAffairs.net to remind our readers of where we stand on the hot-button issues in this election.
Clear Channel Removes 2nd Anti-Nukes Ad
Just three days after a pulling a billboard ad produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) from the Minneapolis airport for being 'scary' and 'anti-McCain,' the media company, Clear Channel Communications, removed a second anti-nuclear weapons billboard from the Denver International Airport.
The Worst of Poverties
'To be poor in the midst of riches is the worst of poverties' is a thought by Seneca that seems to guide the ideas summarized in a substantial article titled 'Unequal America' that appears in the July issue of Harvard Magazine. It is written by its associate editor, Elizabeth Gudrais.
Remembering Gene Upshaw
The last thirty years haven't exactly been kind to the labor movement. It's been a story of slow death, with decades of falling union numbers, stagnant wages and disappearing pensions--all signs pointing toward total oblivion. It's been the era as former UAW President Doug Fraser put so aptly, 'The one sided class war.'
Ten Truisms of Capitalism From the Mouths of Robber Barons
'We are not in business for our health.' A statement attributed to J. P. Morgan, when fellow parishioners in New York's Trinity Church criticized him for 'investing' Church funds in lucrative East Side slum property.
