Trust in Government Declines
Post-9/11 Jump in Americans' Confidence in Washington Is Fading
Now, He Wants an Investigation
Hypocritical Bush should investigate himself.Charley Reese on American conservatism.
Conservative Or Blockhead?Charley Reese on American conservatism.
Eyes Wide ShutHow governments get the sheeple to ignore political crimes.
Uruguay's Chief Is Frank (and Frankly Heroic)He has vowed to find disappeared persons, and has "tackled the cumbersome welfare state with plans to infuse private capital into the government telephone company and allow private imports of natural gas while using his bully pulpit to challenge Uruguayans to begin to rely more on themselves and embrace the new global economy. Defying reported death threats, he has begun to challenge powerful smugglers by overhauling the customs service. And in recent months, Mr. Batlle has taken his audaciousness onto the world stage by becoming the first leader of a Latin American country to call for the legalization of drugs."
National Review's Military Socialism
Republicans Love Big Government
Fending Off the Speech Police"In 1997, 38 senators voted to amend the First Amendment to empower government to impose "reasonable" restrictions on political speech. Dick Gephardt has said, "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy." Bill Bradley has proposed suppressing issue advocacy ads of independent groups by imposing a 100 percent tax on such ads. John McCain has said he wishes he could constitutionally ban negative ads -- ads critical of politicians."
--George Will; Jewish World Review March 12, 2001
Radical reforms required
The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill calls for an aspirin prescription when radical surgery is what´s needed.
-- Walter Williams
Canada may force people to voteDemocratic tyranny just around the corner in Canada? Could Canadians soon be voting under the point of a gun? -- Southam Canada News
McCain a man of principle?"His principle is that he should codify any prejudice he happens to have," scoffs Ed Crane, president of the Cato Institute.
Haunted by Spirits
McCain has taken full advantage of his marriage to a whiskey heiress to build a political career.
Phoenix New Times
Clinton's Critics find themselves targets of IRS audits.
You Will Keep Quit and Do as You are ToldMayor pushes through ordinance to make citizens sit still and keep quit at town meetings and would forbid them from defaming their political masters.
--Bergen County Record, New Jersey
Cynicism
Wake up to the political reality and smell the stench
Bill Clinton, Conservative of the Future
Democracy doesn't necessarily lead to freedom, it is a forum that can and has been used by enemies of freedom, and enemies of democracy itself, to gain the power to enact their agenda.
