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Progressivism Gone Awry? Direct Election of the Senate

By amike on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 4:07pm |
Section. 3.The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the...
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Progressivism Gone Awry? Initiative, Referendum, and Recall

By amike on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:29am |
"Direct Democracy" has a noble sound to it.  Its instruments, Initiative, Referendum, and Recall, were introduced by Progressives about a century ago, and they were introduced for noble reasons.  The idea was to take politics out of smoke-filled rooms and...
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Progressivism Gone Awry? The Price of Ballot Secrecy.

By amike on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 3:55pm |
    There was no right to a secret ballot; having been sworn in, the voter simply called out his choices to the election clerks who sit on the porch behind the judge tallying the vote. Each clerk has a pollbook...
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Progressivism Gone Awry? A few speculations.

By amike on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 5:29pm |
I've told you how I got rich by honest graft. Now, let me tell you that most politicians who are accused of robbin' the city get rich the same way.  They didn't steal a dollar from the city treasury....
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Yet ANOTHER Health Care public service announcement.

By amike on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 9:59pm |
I'm really beginning to see this as an example of a new technique of governing...  I've written a bit about my (limited) understanding of how Community Organizers work, and I've speculated that Obama might be trying to craft a new...
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A Tale of Three Fathers and Seven Sons

By amike on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 3:13pm |
This entry is provoked (that's a good word) by two of the most disturbing Father's Day news stories I heard this week.  Marshall, Landon, Bolton, and Blake were left by their father in the care of their mother over Father's...
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My Letter of Complaint to the Management: it Worked!

By amike on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 12:36pm |
I just fired this off to TPM via the e-mail address at the top.Greetings, to whomever gets this: I wrote yesterday about two spam posts--advertisements in the form of advertisements.  They remained up all day.  Nothing was done.Today I sign on...
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I'm trying

By amike on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 3:53pm |
Some of my friends think I'm Really trying, but generally they forgive me, shaking their heads ans saying that's just his crazy way.  I got another health care e-mail.  This time from Bold Progressives for their "We want the Public...
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ANOTHER Public Service Announcement

By amike on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 11:07pm |
I just received this e-mail from Democracy for America signed by Dr. Howard Dean, and I'm betting many of you did as well.  This is the kind of community pressure to which I referred in my previous post.  I've already...
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Parsing the President V: It's all about Community

By amike on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 6:13pm |
    The Chicago Tribune greeted the publication of "Rules for Radicals" with a lead editorial headlined "ALINSKY'S AT IT AGAIN" and concluded:              "Rubbing raw the sores of discontent may be jolly good fun for him, but we are...

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