Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Biden: White House Eying 19 Executive Actions On Guns
Obama prepares to deploy tyrannical measures. The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Middle East Democracy
We should mind our own business. Here's the first paragraph of my last year's column "Democracy Is Impossible": "After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and 'experts' in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the ... MORE
Walter E Williams - Democracy And Majority Rule
Constitutional ignorance exploited. President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303 electoral votes and Romney 206. Let's not think so much about the election's outcome but instead ask: What's so good about democracy ... MORE
California's Deadly Embrace Of Big Government
by Steven Greenhut. After Tuesday night’s election results came in, I started searching for two things: a stiff drink and a good out-of-state real-estate agent. The national election sends troubling signs about the direction
the country is headed, but nothing much will change from the past
four years, so we know what to expect even if it isn’t particularly
good. ... MORE
Greg Lukianoff: Feigning Free Speech On Campus
Our political correctness zones. Despite high youth voter turnout in 2008 — 48.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots that year — levels are expected to return to usual lows this year, and with that the usual hand-wringing about disengagement and apathy among young voters. Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions ... MORE
John Fund: When Political Speech Comes Under Fire
What if the truth is politically incorrect? This month an unnamed private family foundation, apparently concerned with the integrity of elections, paid for 145 billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin. The boards featured a picture of a judge’s gavel and a simple message: “Voter Fraud Is a Felony — up to 3½ years and a $10,000 fine.” That’s it. ... MORE
Government Displays Contempt For The Will Of The People
"Public servants" will dictate pot policy despite voters. A top Justice Department official has told "60 Minutes" the federal
government is ready to combat any "dangers" of state-sanctioned
recreational pot, amid criticism of the Obama administration for its
relative silence on legalization drives in three states. Voters in Colorado, Washington state and ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - The Fallacy Of Redistribution
It is not complicated. The recently discovered tape on which Barack Obama said back in 1998 that he believes in redistribution is not really news. He said the same thing to Joe the Plumber four years ago. But the surfacing of this tape may serve a useful purpose if it gets people to thinking about what the consequences of redistribution are. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Moral Infrastructure
Neglect in the short term invites disaster in the long term. The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created. The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Mixing Ignorance And Democracy
Mindlessly exercising a right. This is an election year, which means all of us will spend the next few months carefully following the campaigns, finding out all we can about the candidates' proposals and pondering what issues are most vital for the nation's future. Just kidding. Most of us wouldn't do that if you Tased us to within an inch of our lives. In fact, ... MORE
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