http://acyu.org Minors with major opinions. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:16:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The primary season for the Democratic Party has turned out to be the most interesting and unpredictable series of events since at least 1980, the year President Jimmy Carter was challenged by Massachusetts Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy. Kennedy took ten primaries from Carter and cast some doubt on the ... http://acyu.org/2008/08/12/an-answer-to-the-democratic-dilemma/ At the outset of the Presidential campaign, Barack Obama transmitted the sense that he was, or was going to be, America’s favorite candidate. Sure he was inexperienced compared to his opponents. Of course he had little foreign policy understanding. According to Senator Obama, none of this mattered, and it really ... http://acyu.org/2008/08/12/obama-cannot-transcend/             The United States Constitution has been a product of numerous counts of conflict and compromise since its very creation. With the crucial need to revise the Articles of Confederation because of their intrinsic weaknesses, the Constitutional Convention was the first event which spurred such examples of argument and negotiation ... http://acyu.org/2008/08/12/conflict-and-compromise-within-the-constitution/ Many Americans find it a bemusing issue to contemplate an impediment in the flow of illegal aliens entering our country. This being said, it is equally bemusing to witness the modes of installment our politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) have formulated. How could an ... http://acyu.org/2008/05/16/border-stalemate/ There comes a point in the natural life of anything, whether it be a living thing or a society, that the quality of its existence brings into question its own integrity. It is a frightful time to those who watch the often slow erosion of integrity. It is a slow ... http://acyu.org/2008/01/19/the-integrity-of-america/ The past year marked a massive change for the Republican party. For the first year in over a decade, the GOP found itself the minority party in both houses of Congress. Since the midterm elections of 1994, the Republican Party retained constant control of the legislative branch. Coupled with ... http://acyu.org/2008/01/19/the-success-of-the-minority/ The race for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination has heated up between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Much of their time has been spent bantering back and forth about each other’s experience on dealing with various issues, chiefly foreign policy. Recently, however, things have gotten slightly messier. Once again, ... http://acyu.org/2008/01/19/the-wrong-agenda/ As the primary season fast approaches, the Presidential race has heated up. Several individuals have become quite engaged. Such disputes include Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani against Romney, and John McCain versus the rest of the field. With the possible exception of Huckabee and Romney, the race that ... http://acyu.org/2007/12/21/why-hillary-clinton-is-the-wrong-choice/ I'd like to begin with some words from our President: "The Government of Iraq crossed a new threshold of noncompliance… when it repeatedly blocked attempts by U.N. weapons inspectors to enter certain Iraqi government facilities. The investigators from the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM)… believe Iraq may be hiding ... http://acyu.org/2007/11/26/the-war-in-iraq-revisited/ War is a staple of human life, with men savagely destroying each other since the days of tribes. Genocide is a development in warfare, a more catastrophic and calculated way of eliminating enemies. For all of human history, there have been tales of entire civilizations disappearing, men and ... http://acyu.org/2007/10/14/genocide/