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Relevance: 32% Posted on: December 9, 2014
Cain was a witty fellow. He asked one of the best-known rhetorical questions, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Of course he was not. But that was irrelevant. He was covering up something. About what he had done to his brother. So, when I hear the phrase “my brother’s keeper,” I…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: September 17, 2001
Every 10 years we take a census so that new political lines can be drawn for Congress and the state legislatures. It's the state legislatures that draw the lines, which are then ratified like any other piece of legislation. These lines really matter. As the Center for Voting and Democracy…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 16, 2001
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the farm animals overthrow the human farmer and set up a society of strict equality. Yet, no sooner is the society established than the political leaders become a special class. The slogan, "All animals are equal," gets an amendment: "But some animals are more equal…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: October 7, 2019
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: April 16, 2021
Some stories linger in the background, under-acknowledged, never really addressed, driving us a bit crazy. Example? Deficit spending and debt accumulation. The problems that deficit financing inflicts upon us are many and devastating. We would be a lot wealthier, healthier, and wiser were the federal government not so madly out-of-control.…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2020
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2021
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: June 7, 1999
New York's Legislature is a mess. It's like the California State Assembly before citizens there passed term limits and cleared out the career politicians and their partisan back-stabbing and backroom deals. Hofstra Law Professor Eric Lane says: "The New York legislature is the closest thing to non-representative government you'll find…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: March 15, 2011
We’ve had debit cards for most of my adult life. Regularly, people sign their names on electronic pads to obtain medication, credit, what-have-you. You can order books and music and nearly anything online, from your computer, your smartphone, or your new iPad. It’s high time to take democracy into this…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: December 24, 2001
What's the greater danger: a cancer patient in California or a member of al-Queda in Jersey City or the Middle East? We all know the answer to that one. But though the war on terrorism is so much more urgent, the U.S. government keeps throwing billions of tax dollars at…