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- We are the patriots. (Articles).
- I belong to a minority that is now one of the smallest in the country and, with every day, grows smaller. I am a veteran of World War II. And I can recall thinking, when I got out of the Army in 1946, Well, that's that. We...
- Research articles 2003-06-02
- Do Strong Leaders Destroy Leadership?
- Do Strong Leaders Destroy Leadership?RE: Do Strong Leaders Destroy Leadership?By strong, do you mean pompous? I don't completely agree with your interpretation of strong. Leadership is about empowering, bringing people together, providing a cohesive vision and motivating. None of this can be effective without listening and some level of...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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- Wide Angle Tracks Afghanistan's Journey on the Treacherous Road to Democracy in Hell of a Nation, September 9 on PBS
- NEW YORK -- As Afghanistan struggles to move from despotism to democracy, WIDE ANGLE is filming behind the scenes at the December 2003 loya jirga, a council of 500 delegates that debated and ratified Afghanistan's new constitution. Hell of a Nation, premiering Thursday, September 9 at 9 p.m. on PBS...
- Research articles 2004-08-31
- Time to end judicial tyranny: the judicial despotism the Founders warned against is happening today. It is time for an informed electorate to spur Congress to defend and restore our constitutional republic
- "Should the constitutional republic our forefathers designed be replaced with a government by the majority vote of a nine person committee of lawyers who shall be appointed rather than elected and shall hold office for life?"
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- California acting like Third World nation
- ASAD but undisputed syndrome of humankind's unquenchable thirst for oil is that the discovery of rich petroleum deposits in Third World nations usually brings few benefits to their impoverished residents while fueling corruption, despotism, internecine warfare and economic decay. Quite often, international financial bodies such as the...
- Research articles 2003-07-02
- SPECTATOR'S NOTES, THE
- Writing this column in 90ºF heat on the edge of a normally bleak and chill Yorkshire moor, I reflect on the relationship between political culture and weather. Montesquieu, who attributed great importance to climate and geography in the political spirit of nations, thought that heat contributed to despotism, suppressing...
- Research articles 2006-07-22
- The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Dan Walters Column.
- By Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 29--A sad but undisputed syndrome of humankind's un...uenchable thirst for oil is that the discovery of rich petroleum deposits in Third World nations usually brings few benefits to their ...
- Research articles 2003-06-29
- The Court's authority. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
- I hesitate to challenge the wisdom or scholarship of such an eminent authority in matters constitutional as Robert P. George, and perhaps I have misunderstood what he contends in his article "Lincoln on Judicial Despotism" February, but I got the distinct impression that he stated that...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- Calhoun And Popular Rule. (Briefly Noted).(Review)
- CALHOUN AND POPULAR RULE. By H. LEE CHEEK, JR. University of Missouri Press. 202pp. $29.95. It may be impossible to rescue the thought of John C. Calhoun from his identification with the South and its "peculiar institution," but Professor Cheek makes a valiant effort...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Lincoln on judicial despotism.
- After the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of public schools in Topeka, Kansas, lawsuits promptly were brought to dismantle legally sanctioned segregation in other states. One of these was Arkansas. There, Governor Orville Faubus and other state...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
- Who will liberate Chicago's residents? In the news lately, we have heard much of oppressed people in need of liberation from tyrannical one-party rule. In this place of despotism, gunfire routinely rings out in residential areas, claiming the innocent. A massive public educational system...
- Research articles 2004-02-14
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