If I Could Cancel Them Again...

The Strib editorial board came out today in favor of of Instant Runoff voting - an idea which has some superficial attractions and some practical problems. Of course, the Strib missed a few things:2) Instant runoff voting will inspire candidates...
Posted by Mitch on October 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Foley

Along with every significant Republican, Ed and I tossed Mark Foley under the bus on the NARN show this past Saturday. He's out of office, and the law will take its course with him. Good riddance. You will find not...
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (19) | TrackBack

Convention!

Only two years until the '08 GOP Convo in Saint Paul:When national Republicans came to town, they were feted at the new Walker Art Center, were taken for a cruise on the Mississippi by media mogul Stan Hubbard, vice president...
Posted by Mitch on September 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Note To Our Texas Readers

Texas readers: don't believe the hype. Because you are most definitely getting hyped, what with our former governor Jesse Ventura campaigning for Kinky Friedman:If Jesse could do it, why not Kinky? Distilled to its essence, that's the animating rationale behind...
Posted by Mitch on September 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Lori Sturdevant's Selective Amnesia

Joseph Goebbels famously said that if you repeat a big lie often enough, people will eventually believe it. My corollary (via Orwell, I suppose) - if you ignore an inconvenient truth long enough, it'll fade from popular memory. Which is...
Posted by Mitch on August 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Conundrum

Decisions, decisions. The president's hiring of Tony Snow - a talk show host very adept at deflating the pretensions of the DC press corps - is a welcome change in Washington. Perhaps it's time for Mitt Romney to do the...
Posted by Mitch on August 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Race to St. Cloud

I'll be joining Psycmeistr's Ice Palace: On racing to the right..." href="http://psycmeistr.blogspot.com/2006/07/on-racing-to-right.html">Leo "Psychmeister" Pusatieri from the Ice Palace, Dan "The Ox" Ochsner will be joining Marty and Tony on Race To The Right, on AM 1450 KNSI in Saint Cloud....
Posted by Mitch on July 15, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

This Hardly Ever Happens

After months of leftyblogs insisting Rove was going to get perp-walked out of the White House at gunpoint... ...he's cleared:"On June 12 2006, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove,"...
Posted by Mitch on June 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (37) | TrackBack

Bush: Still Clever?

As re this week's immigration fracas, here's my unlikely-but-entertaining theory. Immigration is, demographically, a third-rail type of issue; if the President comes down too hard on illegals, he risks (say GOP critics) alienating parts of 13% of the population for...
Posted by Mitch on May 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Dayton: The Worst

Time Magazine has announced its list of the "best" and "worst" Senators. The list itself is somewhat suspect; sure, it takes a putative whack at balance (the ten "bests" include three conservatives, four liberals and three, er, oh, what the...
Posted by Mitch on April 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Let It Go

The Strib, still licking its wounds over 2000, beats the bushes for the abolition of the Electoral College:But now comes a gaggle of bipartisan reformers with a cheeky idea worth considering. What if legislatures, one by one, entered their states...
Posted by Mitch on March 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (53) | TrackBack

All Atwitter

The leftyblogs are giggling like schoolgirls about the new CBS poll that supposedly show the Adminsitration's numbers way, way off. Naturally, there may be more to the story:In its classic "fair and balanced" tradition, CBS slanted in favor of Democrats...
Posted by Mitch on February 28, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

Must Be Rove

Paul Hackett - former Marine major, Iraq war veteran - is running for the Senate as a Democrat. Well, he was, anyway. He was an outsider, and he didn't fit the new, Mad How/Daily Kos-friendly vision of the Democratic Party....
Posted by Mitch on February 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Taking The High Road

According to Drudge, the Dems' new strategy involves pure name-calling: The quote underneath the Gingrich photo reads “In His Own Words: Gingrich’s Solution To Childhood Obesity: ‘Turn off the TV, cut the fatty diet and get exercise.’ [AP, 2/8/06]” The...
Posted by Mitch on February 14, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

News Flash

Murphy's law doesn't exempt political leaders. Fearless prediction: The left's orgiastic howling over this issue will result in improved poll numbers for the Administration. And a surge in NRA hunting safety registrations......
Posted by Mitch on February 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (91) | TrackBack

SOTU: Moments of the Night

I caught the State of the Union address last night at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts, along with Michael Medved and a couple hundred of my closest friends. Best on-screen moment: George Bush referenced the failure of his...
Posted by Mitch on February 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

Ten Years And Counting

Andrew Ferguson notes that "Lobbying Reform" in the wake of Abramoff is missing the point. Read the whole piece - which ends: Lobbying thrives on government -- specifically the government's willingness to meddle in every sector of national life, multiplying...
Posted by Mitch on January 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Under The Bus? Livebloging Biden on Today

Hectoring from the Four Dwarves (Kennedy, Biden, Feinstein and Leahy) sends Martha Alito from the room in tears. Lindsay Graham, G-d bless him, tore them apart. Katie Couric's leader this morning: "Did the Democrats go to far?" She's questioning Slow...
Posted by Mitch on January 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

Dump 'Em

The WSJ Editorial Board calls for kickiing the Abramoff Republicans to the curb:Republicans won't escape voter anger by writing new rules but only by returning to their self-professed principles. Gradually since 1994 they've decided they want to reform and limit...
Posted by Mitch on January 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

What's In A Word, Redux

The GOP strikes back. Finally. The "White Flag" ads, trumpeting Howard Dean and John "Our Troops are Terrorists" Kerry's remarks, are on the way. Democrats aren't happy (note Dean's attempt to crabwalk away a couple of posts ago):A Democratic strategist...
Posted by Mitch on December 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (34) | TrackBack

I Confess

To preserve my future political career, and in view of Governor Bill Richardson (NM) and his confession re his phony major league draft, I think it's time to set the following records straight:Rumors that I was the subject of a...
Posted by Mitch on November 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Hillary! Throws Murtha Under Bus

Last week's Senate brainfart over the war has given Hillary Clinton a hole that William Perry could blast through without a hand on him:Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be "a big...
Posted by Mitch on November 22, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Two Steps Back

Sisyphus from Nihilist twigged me to this story; an attempt to get a Senate resolution congratulating Bruce Springsteen on (or a few months after) the thirtieth anniversary of Born To Run was tabled in the Senate.Bruce Springsteen famously was "born...
Posted by Mitch on November 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Note To Bill Frist: You Still Suck

To: Bill Frist, Gerbil From: Mitch Berg Re: Your Moronic Capitulation Sen. Frist, I haven't had a lot of time for you since your abject, stupid capitulation on the judicial nominees. That was bad - but nobody died. Today's cretinous...
Posted by Mitch on November 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Behind Closed Doors

J-Po at the Corner on the closed door session:I think the Democratic move today in the Senate is politically canny. In the past five days, Democrats have seen the political momentum shifting the president's way with shocking speed. They don't...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Solved?

Deep Throat revealed?A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat,'' the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said today. W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in...
Posted by Mitch on May 31, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

Saad Story

The Detroit Free Press goes inside the tangled story of the Saad nomination and, potentially, filibuster. No matter where he ends up, Saad, 56, of Oakland County, has been on one long, strange trip. Although not one of Bush's most...
Posted by Mitch on May 30, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Excrescence Strikes Back

It's worse than I thought, according to Rocketman:Now the Republicans are treating the execrable Robert Byrd like a hero! Unbelievable. What a low moment. "We have kept the Republic," Byrd says. I think I'm going to be sick.This keeps getting...
Posted by Mitch on May 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

The Deal Is Rotten

A few of my commenters - and not a few bloggers - have suggested that yesterdays' abdication of power by Bill Frist was really a good deal, if you think about it. I've thought about it. Nope. Still awful. Here's...
Posted by Mitch on May 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

The RINO Cancer

Last night in a fit of ire, I wrote a letter to Bill Frist: "You Suck". Then I went to bed. I figured sleeping on it would help. Nah. It didn't help. As several of my very astute commenters noted,...
Posted by Mitch on May 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Note To Bill Frist: You Suck

To: Bill Frist, US Senate. From: Mitch Berg, Schmuck Citizen and pissed-off former GOP contributor Re: Your Infinite Cretinism Senator Frist, Mitch Berg here. You probably don't know who I am; I'm a typical schmuck. I write a blog, and...
Posted by Mitch on May 23, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (112) | TrackBack

Right To Know?

Via the Dogs, I saw Tony Snow's work-over of North Dakota's senator Byron Dorgan's attempt to cover up IRS abuses....
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Empire Building?

John Fund has an interesting piece on some of the obscure minutiae of running elections - this one, one that could slip a lot of back-door regulation into elections. It's gaining steam in Congress:With the EAC's mandate ending in October...
Posted by Mitch on April 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Air America: Good News, Bad News

The Good News: By any rational measure, Air America is el-flopola [1] Of course there's bad news....
Posted by Mitch on April 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

From the "Where Are They Now" Department

Anyone remember the Independence Party? In case you don't, they were Jesse Ventura's party, for those of you who think his party mattered. They apparently still exist!Independence Party vice chairman Jack Uldrich said Thursday he's formed an exploratory committee and...
Posted by Mitch on April 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

How Many Times...

...has the left declared, in a welter of news stories, that a GOP stand on a social issue was going to splinter the party and kill us at the polls? Abortion. Gay Marriage. Social Security. Tax Cuts. Schiavo. And on...
Posted by Mitch on March 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Miscalculation

The Democrats are floggin a calculator to show the purported disadvantages of Bush's social security privatization plan. The Detailed Explanation of Calculations and Assumptions" included on the page is detailed, yet doesn't list the actual calculations in any depth. Patrick...
Posted by Mitch on February 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Shark Attack

Wondering what's going on with the bizarre, Chicago-like recount in Washington? You need to read Sound Politics. Stefan Sharkansky - with whom we spoke during last Saturday's NARN show - is putting together a fairly damning case. Read it; if...
Posted by Mitch on January 03, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Did They Jump...

Trunk introduces the new John Podhoretz column:Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson's mordant 1982 album documenting the breakup of their marriage is titled "Shoot Out the Lights," and one of the album's highlights is their jointly written song "Did She Jump...
Posted by Mitch on December 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Protest Too Much?

Yesterday, I wrote a piece about how some ofthe dimmer, less discerning, more hate-choked bulbs of the fever-swamp left are trying to call upon the history of the Democrat party - things like "The party that won World War II",...
Posted by Mitch on November 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (31) | TrackBack

What's In A Label?

It's a question I've asked in this space many times; when is a Republican a Republican?...
Posted by Mitch on November 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

All I Want For Christmas

Mad How is a candidate to run the DNC:=Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party. "He told me he was thinking about it," Steve Grossman, himself a former chairman of...
Posted by Mitch on November 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Axis Of Weasel Alert

Chirac spurns Bush's overtures. Like that's a surprise. Know what I like most about this election? The US has officially told the world's francophiles that, for the next four years, they can go pound brie....
Posted by Mitch on November 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Cool Title. Lousy Idea.

Visit JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com...
Posted by Mitch on October 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Anti-Sullivan

Christopher Hitchens endorses Bush. Sort of....
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Logical Gymnastics

Andrew Sullivan surprises nobody with his endorsement of John Kerry. Except, of course, for the moral incontinence he shows in getting there....
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Fight for the Democrat Soul

Dan Hertsgaard in the SanFranChron writes about the upcoming battle for the heart and soul of the Democrat Party. Its an interesting look into at least one faction of the party....
Posted by Mitch on October 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

On Talking With O'Neill

I had a one-hour conversation with John O'Neill yesterday. Unlike his last several major media appearances, nobody screamed over his points. Nobody bogged the conversation down in irrelevant tangents. We cut to the chase, and stayed on the chase for...
Posted by Mitch on October 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Tougher Than The Rest

What's being tough worth? Yglesias writes:Ezra Klein's got this just right. The notion that a group of hardcore killers, willing and eager to detonate a nuclear device in an American city, would be impressed or scared by the "toughness" of...
Posted by Mitch on October 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Why Conservatives Need to Vote for Bush

Chris from New Patriot points us to a Doug Bandow piece in Salon, "Why Conservatives Must Not Vote for Bush". We'll get to Bandow in a moment....
Posted by Mitch on October 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Stolen Honor To Air: Petards being Stress-Tested

Chumley Wonderbar says "Stolen Honor" will air this coming Wednesday at 9PM on the Twin Cities' WB/Sinclair affiliate. In other news, the Democratic Party was rebuffed in its effort to get a situational revocation of the First Amendment today. Ironic,...
Posted by Mitch on October 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Handicapping

Vodkapundit is doing debate prep. Beats doing it myself. What to expect?If Kerry whups Bush and whups him good, then he can stop worrying about states like New Jersey, Minnesota, and New Mexico - which would put a minimum of...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Alliance? What Alliance?

We've gone over this many, many times: John Kerry constantly refers to getting our "allies" involved in the war (that we're going to pull out of). We respond "except for France and Germany, they all are, already". And of course,...
Posted by Mitch on September 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Other War On Terror

According to Dennis Hastert, a centerpiece of a second Bush term would be the elimination of the IRS.A domestic centerpiece of the Bush/GOP agenda for a second Bush term is getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, the DRUDGE REPORT...
Posted by Mitch on August 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Why I'm Not A Libertarian

Why I'm Not A Libertarian - Michael Medved calls Libertarians "Losertarians". Medved's wrong. Oh, not entirely. Medved is rarely completely wrong about mch of anything. But on this issue, Medved paints with an uncharacteristically broad, clumsy brush. Not enough people...
Posted by Mitch on March 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Funniest Ad I've Heard Lately

Funniest Ad I've Heard Lately - Perhaps the funniest political ad I can remember lately, if not ever: "Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Hairstyle by Christophe's $75. Designer shirts: $250. Forty-two foot luxury yacht: $1 million. Four lavish mansions and beachfront...
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Separated at birth

Yeah, yeah - it's a Kerry blog. That doesn't mean I can't make fun of it:When Teresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center: “Asses of Evil” with “Bush”, “Cheney”, “Rumsfeld” and “Ashcroft” surrounding it....
Posted by Mitch on March 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Finally Saw the Bush Ad

Finally Saw the Bush Ad - I counted two seconds of coverage of September 11 in a thirty-second spot. Given that the events and fallout from September 11 have dominated over 3/4 of the time of his administration, I thought...
Posted by Mitch on March 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Open Letter to the DNC

Open Letter to the DNC - Please, please keep putting Terry MacAuliffe on talk shows against Ed Gillespie. I'm watching Today right now, and Gillespie is making MacAuliffe look like the lying, sniveling little thug he is. Good tactic. Keep...
Posted by Mitch on February 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

They Eat Their Own

Did a Democrat feed Kerrygate to Drudge? The idea passes the smell test, says Limbaugh: "The Drudge item on Kerry intern issue is something Chris Lehane (Clark press secy) has shopped around for a long time - it was one...
Posted by Mitch on February 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Old Baggage

Hugh Hewitt asked the Northern Alliance to comment on whether we think John Kerry's 30 year old actions and statements are relevant fodder for this presidential election. As a matter of logic, and with full knowledge about how humans develop?...
Posted by Mitch on February 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Note to CINOs

I just found this quote, from Lord Acton:At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own"....
Posted by Mitch on February 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

CINO

I"m going to pick a fight. A big one. No, not against Democrats. Against Republicans. I got up this morning intending to do a comprehensive fisking of Josh Marshall's latest, blunderiffic screed about the President, with an aim toward...
Posted by Mitch on February 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Reap The Whirlwind

Hewitt was in rare form last night, hammering Terry MacAuliffe's idiotic statements and John Kerry's record. He tears apart Josh "Joshua Micah" Marshall, whose vapidity on defense and foreign policy matters should be obvious to anyone who ever pulled an...
Posted by Mitch on February 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Conservatives And Bush

Yesterday, I asked the Northern Alliance to comment on the question - how will the conservative base react to President Bush's free-spending ways? I went to the 2000 caucuses without any delusions about Bush's conservatism. While it's a time-worn principle...
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Confirmation

I usually hate those "What Candidate To Is Right for You" questionnaires. The questions never reflect the nuances that have to go into developing a real, informed, adult opinion on any serious issue. But, like the Monkeys, I took the...
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

House Latino?

House Latino? - Evangelical Outpost brings us this ugly, stupid flap from California:First, there was singer and Democratic activist Harry Belafonte calling Colin Powell a “house slave.” Then we have Hillary Clinton making a really bad (and unfunny) joke about...
Posted by Mitch on January 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Debate

I caught a few intermittent snatches of the Democrats debate Sunday afternoon from Des Moines. But only a few. Hugh Hewitt wasn't so lucky: How can an entire national party produce such a humorless group of scolds? Only Lieberman and...
Posted by Mitch on January 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Candomatic

Via Blogomodleft, I tried "Selectsmart.com", which features a "2004 American Presidential Candidates Selector". Methodologically, these things are usually deeply flawed, and this is no exception. Here's an example:13. ABORTION POLICY Regarding the following special interest groups, my ideal candidate will...
Posted by Mitch on January 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Open Letter to E-Democracy -

Open Letter to E-Democracy - If you're not interested in the inner workings of a petty squabble between a hack writer and a faded email discussion group, then move on to the next post. In about 1995, brand new to...
Posted by Mitch on January 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kicked

Powerline "notes that the DNC's "blog" Kicking Ass is back on the air after a brief outage. They noted correctly that it's not a blog at all - it's a message board. And they close by noting:Kicking Ass provides a...
Posted by Mitch on December 28, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Process Disease

I'm a software designer. I design User Interfaces to make them easier and more intuitive to use - so that users can not only accomplish things with software, but be comfortable with the knowledge that they're accomplishing something. The job...
Posted by Mitch on December 23, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

If It Walks Like A Turkey

The left is still cleaning up the sticky mess they left after the "Plastic Turkey" story broke after Bush's surprise visit to Baghdad for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately for the Bush-bashing journos involved, they were had. Tim Blair has the hilarious body...
Posted by Mitch on December 20, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Let's Do A Poll

Over the weekend, I'm going to check out the usual leftyblog suspects. The goal? See how many of them try to disavow the link between the invasion of Iraq and Libya's disavowal of WMDs. My prediction? "All but two or...
Posted by Mitch on December 20, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Just Keep Repeating... - ...after

Just Keep Repeating... - ...after Howard Dean: "The pre-emptive invasion of Iraq didn't make us safer. Our aggressive response against the Taliban made things less, not more, safe. We're losing the war on terror due to the policies of the...
Posted by Mitch on December 19, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Roots of Hatred

Probably no big revelations in this piece by Krauthammer, but it's interesting to see the roots of the Democrats' blind hatred of Bush catelogued so succinctly: "Whence the anger? It begins of course with the 'stolen' election of 2000 and...
Posted by Mitch on September 23, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Circus

Someone is digging into the wackjob-left bag of tricks, as Ralph Nader gets a taste of classic Indymeat debating:"Nader was speaking at an event to endorse fellow Green Peter Camejo for California governor when a man ran into the...
Posted by Mitch on August 13, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Best They Can Do?

Cruz Bustamante, California's current Lieutenant Governor, declared his candidacy in the California Recallapalooza yesterday. I almost drove off the road when I read what he'd said shortly after putting the last twist on the knife in Gray Davis' back. California...
Posted by Mitch on August 10, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Why We Need the Electoral College - Part III

The Canadian system of federal government combines: A popularly-elected chief executive, the Prime Minister (Jean Chretien), A popularly-elected parliamentary lower house ("Commons")A parliamentary upper house that is appointed by...the popularly-elected Prime Minister.As a result, all federal power in Canada...
Posted by Mitch on November 18, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Imperial Bureaucrat

The European Union is trying to create a sophisticated, nuanced approach to free speech - as Volokh says, "as opposed to America's "absolutist" insistence that people should be able to express even evil and offensive ideas". Everyone who genuflects to...
Posted by Mitch on November 11, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)