Baron Boddisey on Jun 12 2009 | Filed under: Democracy, Europe, Heroes of the Past
Our Flemish correspondent VH writes:
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Only a few days after the D-Day WWII memorials, concerning which the Dutch blog GeenStijl paid tribute to American soldiers with an impressive photo-series, it has been made public that there will be a President Ronald Reagan memorial in London as tribute to freedom and the [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 24 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Democracy
I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenge for government in a world with higher expectations. Cast your mind back to the years when the Founders signed off on the Declaration of Independence and created the Bill of Rights. It was a very different world, with very different needs and expectations.
Let’s start with a simple [...]
the Bear at The Absurd Report on Dec 29 2008 | Filed under: Democracy
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.” - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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the Bear at The Absurd Report on Dec 19 2008 | Filed under: Democracy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
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Terry Trippany on Nov 11 2008 | Filed under: Democracy, Feature Article
Is A Change in the Voter Registration Process Such a Bad Idea?
Michelle Malkin has a post up about a proposal that was reported on in the LA Times to make voter registration universal; a sort of top down proposal where eligible voters are automatically registered to vote when they become eligible. Funny this issue would [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 30 2008 | Filed under: Activism, Campaign Reform, Democracy, Dhimmitude, Economy, Election 2008, Enviromentalists, Global Warming, Terrorism, The War on Terror, War, state of the nation
I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprinted below:
Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at John McCain, [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 10 2008 | Filed under: Democracy, Election 2008
My kids used to go to a wonderful little private school. It was a stretch to afford it, but I felt the benefits outweighed the burden. Then the tuition went up, and up, and up. So we left. The wonderful little private school is now precisely like all the other private schools in our area, [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Democracy, Europe, Middle East
Later today, a government’s representative is going to make the following important announcements:
Western governments have “the moral imperative to intervene - sometimes militarily - to help spread democracy throughout the world.”
The same speaker says that “fostering democracy in the Middle East ‘is the best long-term defence against global terrorism and conflict.’”
He feels that keeping democracy [...]
