Compares George Orwell's "1984" to today's society and proposes that the Patriot Act has taken steps toward this end.

The specter of medical malpractice in the United States has assumed crisis proportions. The American Medical Association has declared that malpractice issues are at least "serious and deteriorating" in 44 states. At the heart of the malpractice crisis appears to be a tort system without adequate controls.

Hezbollah was formed in 1982 by radical Lebanese Shiites who wanted to create an Islamic state in Lebanon and to free their land of Israeli domination. In English this translates to Party of God, because it combined political ambition with religious fervor. At this time Hezbollah was small and poorly armed, but soon they came to the attention of Iran, which was interested in exporting its brand of Islamic revolution to other Arab countries and in gaining greater influence in the region. Iran sent Hezbollah money and weapons, and sent their elite Revolutionary Guard to Lebanon to help in the struggle with the Israelis, wstablishing training camps for Hezbollah in Lebanon. By 1985, Hezbollah was an organized group, with clear goals, specific strategies, and the financial resources with the help and support of Iran and Syria.

A history of the U.S. Federal Estate Tax and why, in the view of the author, it should be repealed. The phase out of this type of tax would not have been favored by de Tocqueville. He would have found this tax a useful way to prevent tremendous wealth from being transferred from generation to generation.

This is about how the paranoid Chinese Government supresses individual rights in Tibet and China.

Karl Marx was a nineteenth century thinker whose ideas had a profound influence in the twentieth century. His analysis of class conflict in society and the oppressive nature of the capitalist economy have had an enduring influence on later generations. Marx's challenge to the rule of the capitalist ruling class and his call for the equal distribution of wealth have inspired many a bloody revolution. Revolutions of less violent nature but just as profound in their effects have also occurred intellectually.