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Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 23, 2000
What if they held an election and nobody came? Well, it happened several weeks ago, in New Ashford, Massachusetts. But before folks start wringing their hands about voter apathy, they should take note of the fact that there wasn't anything to vote for. Oh, sure, candidates were on the ballot…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: March 19, 2001
You had to know they've been looking for it. Well, they've found it. Proof that term limits don't work. Oh, forget all the arguments politicians made when term limits were first being debated that it would create utter chaos, that state and local governments would simply grind to a halt…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: September 27, 2011
California’s initiative process gets blamed for every political problem the state confronts . . . that is, by many legislators and political insiders. Two measures receive the bulk of the ire: Proposition 13 and Proposition 98. Liberals bemoan Prop 13’s requirement of a two-thirds legislative vote to raise taxes, preventing…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: May 12, 2008
Honest people with income and bills know that it’s possible to cut spending. We don’t always do it when we should. Sometimes we’re undisciplined. But we suffer costs for that lack of discipline. We suffer them directly—as individuals and as families. In the world of government expenditure, however, it’s always…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 5, 1999
Term limits are taking effect all over the country and the results have been more competitive elections with new people getting involved in the process. That's a very good thing, unless of course you're a career politician who hopes to stay in office forever. Let's face it, the people and…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: March 12, 2001
Sometimes you just have to do it yourself if there's a way. For term limits and many other reforms, the citizen initiative process is a way that the people, not the politicians, can lay down the law. In 24 states, initiative and referendum allows citizens to propose a law and…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 30, 2016
On July 30, 1419, the First Defenestration of Prague: Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall, on Charles Square. While they were marching, a stone was…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 30, 2017
July 30, 1419, the First Defenestration of Prague: Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall, on Charles Square. While they were marching, a stone was thrown…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 30, 2018
July 30, 1419, the First Defenestration of Prague: Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall, on Charles Square. While they were marching, a stone was thrown…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: March 26, 2001
Experience. You know what that is. What you collect when you're a career politician looking for ever more clever ways to spend other people's money and complicate other people's lives. "Oh, we need experienced legislators here!" cry the expert denizens of our state capitol buildings. "It takes decades to get…