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Election Reform's Unintended Winners
In today's Washington Post , Ruth Marcus discovers that public financing of campaigns led (surprise) to more radical political outcomes, by helping fund conservative Republicans challenging more mainstream candidates. Ruth Marcus discovers that public financing of campaigns leads (surprise) …Arizona's Common Sense Approach to Racial Profiling
Critics of Arizona’s new immigration bill contend that it unfairly allows police to detain anyone looking Hispanic. But for the U.S. to be able to enforce its immigration laws, officials must pay common sense attention to ethnicity. The new Arizona law making it a state crime to be an illegal …GOP Should Be Ashamed of AZ's Anti-Immigration Law
The passage of Arizona's anti-immigration bill has damaged the perception of the GOP in the minds of millions of Hispanic-Americans. This law has basically told the fastest growing minority in America that they are not to be trusted. My mother has an accent. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, my …Are Cameron's Tories Ready to Govern?
UPDATED: David Cameron has addressed the Conservatives' political problem, but not their policy problem. Margaret Thatcher had an approach to elections, but above all an approach to government. Does Cameron? At the website of the UK magazine, The Spectator , John O'Sullivan and Allen Massie are …Will Europe Learn from Greece's Budget Meltdown?
One by one, European governments are beginning to show signs of breaking economically. Greece may get bailed out for now but its debt will only grow, reaching 400% by 2040. Missing from the media coverage of Greece’s budget meltdown has been a message perhaps never before proven so true: social …Why Everyone Should Own an M1911
The grandaddy of the modern semi-automatic pistol - the venerable M1911 - is the definitive sidearm of the American fighting man. The following is the start of a series of posts to commemorate the upcoming centennial of the grandaddy of the modern semi-automatic pistol - the venerable M1911 - I …