Category: Democracy

There’s a petition drive going on in Wisconsin right now, to recall Governor Scott Walker. If enough signatures are gathered, then there will be an election on whether he …

And Democracy ain’t all that in their eyes. First up, the Governor of North Carolina: File this in the random-things-politicians-say file. Speaking to a Cary Rotary Club today, N.C. …

With enough Republicans in the Wisconsin State Senate surviving the attempts to recall them, replace them with Democrats, and overturn last winter’s move to cut back the power of …

I hope so for the sake of the Republic and for future generations.

Via The Anchoress, who has more where this comes from: It cannot be too often repeated that all real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) …

It turns out that restructuring the European lifestyle may be much more difficult than many EU members expected. ARIS -- Across Western Europe, the "lifestyle superpower," the assumptions and …

Not to mention The Simpsons. And Ghostbusters for that matter. I still crack up just thinking about the giddy look on Dr. Venkman's face as he's about to administer …

Bret Stephens:It began nearly on the day that Saddam's statue in central Baghdad was brought down by American soldiers as jubilant Iraqis looked on. "This war was not worth …

I was re-reading Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles this week, and it occurred to me to wonder about an eternal country built on what amounted to a feudal system. The …

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and the beginning of the end of oppressive Communist rule that kept Eastern Europe under the...