Heritage Foundation scholar Stuart Butler identifies a major problem for a representative democracy: Never mind what your politics are, there is something very wrong with a democracy in which lawmakers routinely vote on huge bills they have not even read. In fact, congressional bills have
I’m involved with an editing project that involves different people contributing essays on literary and biblical texts. A couple people working on the latter use “Yahweh” as the name of God. That comes from the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, the exact vowel pointing for which in the
The abuse of government expense accounts by the ruling Labour Party lawmakers and ministers in England is threatening to bring down Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Some of the misuse of money is on a grandiose scale, but to me this one, involving such a small
Auto dealers are pleading with Congress–their companies’ new board of directors–for mercy, now that Chrysler has shut down 789 local dealerships and GM is set to close 1,100 as a start. I don’t understand how cutting down the number of sales outlets is going to
There are two different philosophies of what to do on vocation [Freudian slip, as you noticed: I meant “vacation”]. My approach has always been to see things, do things, learn things, rushing from one fun activity to another. My wife’s approach is to do nothing,
As America embraces European-style social democracy–that is, semi-socialism–Europeans are embracing conservative politics and economic policies. At least that’s what the results of this weekend’s European Union parliament are suggesting: Conservatives raced toward victory in some of Europe’s largest economies Sunday as initial results and exit
People in Saudi Arabia’s capital went to the movies for the first time in thirty years. Islamic clerics shut down the movie theaters, considering them decadent and un-Islamic, but King Abdullah has just opened them as part of his modernizing reforms. OK, women were not
Saturday was D-Day! Thousands of men died on those beaches to put an end to the Nazi government we have been talking about. That is what Romans 13 is about: Governments, ours and our allies, loving and serving their neighbors (virtually all of Europe under
Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia will no longer allow you to smile for your driver’s license picture. It seems that smiling throws off facial recognition technology used to detect fraudulent licenses. Residents in these states will have to display “neutral facial expressions.” So smiling heightens
The Wall Street Journal reports White House Set to Appoint a Pay Czar: The Obama administration plans to appoint a “Special Master for Compensation” to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter. The
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