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Tools of Democracy: The vote is powerful, but there are other ways to cause change, too
ben@theinteriorjournal.comAs the 2012 general election approaches, more and more attention is being given to one of the archetypal tools of democracy — the vote. But as more and more people spend more and more time obsessing over who's going to vote for whom, it...Tags: Political Systems, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Freedom of the Press
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Let's lead horses to water, not faucets
The life of British Lt. Col. T. E. Lawrence was portrayed in “Lawrence of Arabia,” a famous film of the early 1960s. This was a rare case where the real-life experiences of the man whose name graced the title of the box-office hit were at...Tags: Solyndra LLC, Politics, Turkey, Constitutional Issues, World War I (1914-1918)
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Mission not accomplished
Almost exactly nineteen years ago, a plane lumbered across the pocked runway of the Mogadishu airport and a young Marine, a veteran of two wars in three years, looked out of the departing plane’s window, sniffed and said, “Thirty days.”...Tags: Politics, Constitutional Issues, Iraq, Justice and Rights, Afghanistan
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Hamilton: What it takes to be a citizen
A few weeks ago, the federally run National Assessment of Educational Progress issued its latest “report card” on civics education in the United States. You can get a sense of what it found from The New York Times headline: “Civics...Tags: Report Cards, Politics, Government, The New York Times, Indiana University
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Hamilton: We need to embrace compromise, not insult it
Last month, a Time magazine article about two freshman House members on Capitol Hill featured this pronouncement from one of them: “The people did not send me here to compromise.” His colleague noted that compromise is “a word that...Tags: Politics, Constitutional Issues, New York City, Crime, Law and Justice, Alexander Hamilton
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Ky. Republicans need to write more lines of US Constitution
Journal columnistOn Thursday, for the first time in American history, the 112th Congress opened up their tenure by reciting the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. Progressive Democrats bemoaned the act as “nonsense,” “ritualistic” and “...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Susan Westrom, Kentucky, Constitutional Issues
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Conway: The ¿¿¿new constitutionalism¿¿¿ and statewide smoking ban
Last Thursday, for the first time in American history, members of the 112th Congress opened up the session by reciting the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. Progressive Democrats bemoaned the act as “nonsense,” “ritualistic,”...Tags: Laws, Politics, Constitutional Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party
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The new constitutionalism and a statewide smoking ban
Contributing columnistOn Thursday, for the first time in American history, the 112th Congress opened up its tenure by reciting the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. Progressive Democrats bemoaned the act as “nonsense,” “ritualistic” and “...Tags: Laws, Politics, Constitutional Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party
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Why Egypt matters to us
I think of Wang Weilin often, though sadly I don’t know his fate or if that is even his real name. You might know him as “Tank Man” or “The Unknown Rebel” and, though we don’t know his name, the iconic image of him...Tags: Iran, Political Systems, Religious Conflicts, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Politics
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Pankaj Mishra: China's developmental state says no to liberalism
Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in Britain and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political...Tags: Interior Policy, Japan, Xi Jinping, Political Systems, Politics
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USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...
Tags: Political Systems, Politics, George W. Bush, United Nations, U.S. Department of State
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The filibuster kills gun legislation and democracy
President Obama called it a shameful day for the Senate. A survivor of the Tucson shooting that wounded Gabby Giffords shouted from the gallery, "Shame on you." This was the response to the rejection of gun control. I was tempted to write the "voting...Tags: Interior Policy, Political Systems, Politics, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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