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Lobbyists represent every interest group in America. Representatives from the business, religious, labor, science, medical and other communities try to influence governmental policies. They sometimes lobby face-to-face with their elected leaders and sometimes by indirect means. One of the most used and effective means is to persuade the leaders’ constituents to lobby for them. From the beginning of our Republic, using the media to accomplish this has been a very effective tool. In recent years, however, the media has become increasingly concentrated, giving it more power to affect public opinion. Interest groups, of course, are aware of this development and spend more time and money trying to gain access to these limited media outlets to promote their particular agendas.
Last update: 19-08-2008 00:08
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Adam and Eve From Space Indeed!
I am often wrong making predictions, but I feel very confident that school children will find bizarre the notion that space aliens visited Earth thousands of years ago and left Adam and Eve behind to build the human race. Of course, they would have had to have made many other trips before this one to bring all the other plants, animals, and microorganisms that lived here before Adam and Eve. This is only one suggestion being made by some to counter the theory of evolution that is now the basis for all the biological sciences. Their main argument is that life is too complex to have begun by “chance” so it must have been “designed” by something “intelligent.”
Last update: 19-08-2008 00:08
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WISE UP!
Tired of feeling like a puppet? Sometime when you are alone, ask yourself, and honestly try to answer this question. What is the major reason there is so much resentment, intolerance, and conflict in your community and around the world? After all, most people are born rational so why can’t they all get along. Floyd Glidewell thinks it is because so many people rely on someone else to tell them what to think, what to believe, who to like, who to hate, and how to behave. They depend on others for many reasons but sometimes its because they lack the information needed to form their own opinions.
Last update: 19-08-2008 00:08
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