Obama: Hugo Chavez in an American's clothing
Barack Obama's rise to fame is akin to the "New Kids on the Block" phenomenom of the 1980's. He is merely a product of a brilliant marketing campaign: all glitter, no...
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URthere4IM on 2008-05-13 22:12:52 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 39 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Politics
Obama
Clinton
Election
Marxism
Thoughts
There are social-democrats who believe that political democracy and political liberty are
equivalent and identical political possibilities; that political democracy and policial liberty
are...
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rallen2 on 2008-05-10 21:56:16 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Liberty
Wage Slavery
Zimbabwe - short post on a big issue
This is a short post on something that deserves a lot more space.
It's hard to know what's really going on in Zimbabwe - the media from my country has been banned from reporting directly from...
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Posted by:
rose22 on 2008-05-05 18:00:42 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 35 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
politics
world
Africa
Zimbabwe
elections
Thoughts
Democracy is not about individuals, or a community, telling individuals how to live their
individual lives. Democracy is not about one individual -- an absolute monarch, for example...
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rallen2 on 2008-05-05 13:08:25 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Democracy
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Ottehey on 2008-05-01 04:15:27 Average Rating:  | Views: 27 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
democracy
1th
may
world
1th May
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Ottehey on 2008-05-01 03:28:32 Average Rating: | Views: 29 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
May
morning
democracy
Sometimes words don't cut it
I can write. I can spew words. I can try through persuasion to get people to care about my country. But sometmes words are inadequate. Sometimes - it it still holds true that pictures tell a...
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Zimbabwe on 2008-04-28 02:07:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 42 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
zimbabwe
africa
jane
flowers
democracy
“SMS CAMPAIGN - RULE 14″ and SAVE RTI Act in I
Thoughts
When we the people have constituted a democracy, then we the people will be free to
solve whatever problem a democracy might encounter or engender. I am satisfied with
this; those who...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-19 11:19:39 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
I try to be very clear concerning the principles of the social-democracy I advocate. The
principles of socialism and of democracy must inform the possible practices of both
socialism and...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-19 10:52:30 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Socialism
Principles
Liberty
Property
Thoughts
How, or why is Neal Boortz's point -- "A lynch mob is a democracy." -- a basically valid
point? Even if it be granted, for the sake of debate, that a democracy can or could
conduct...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-14 11:45:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Contracts
A Limited Democracy
A Limited Democracy
The Federalist #10 is the basic rationalization for our nation’s government. Through this short work, created by James Madison in 1787, one can very nearly get into...
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willfla29 on 2008-04-14 01:06:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
jefferson
conservative
democracy
republican
Thoughts
In a democracy, citizens make political decisions, but no citizen makes decisions for
other citizens. In a democracy, no one citizen decides for another citizen, and no group
of citizens...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-13 12:52:46 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
What if, as a citizen of a democratic republic, I have decided that I like democracy,
and that it is my principal and paramount desire for democracy to endure? When I
vote concerning this...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-13 12:48:39 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
In any democratically-organized association, it helps each member to actively participate
in every democratic process and procedure, including discussion, debate, and decision-
making. It helps...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-13 12:44:38 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts Explicit Content
In a true democracy, those who vote with the minority preference will have had their
input into the ultimate decision. The citizens who voted with the minority decided, just
as did the...
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rallen2 on 2008-04-13 12:38:32 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Freedom
Rights
Thoughts
Why do some believe that a republic cannot, by definition, be a democracy? If the
founders of these United States, the framers of the U. S. Constitution, did not define
republic , then how...
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rallen2 on 2008-03-24 12:26:15 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
If you limit the franchise to citizens owning substantial property, then you limit citizenship
to the very same class of people. Although a plutocracy is a republic, a democracy is also
a...
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rallen2 on 2008-03-24 12:17:43 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Republic
Tyranny
Thoughts
Dr. Walter E. Williams (John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at
George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.) wrote:
"High up on my list of annoyances are references to the United...
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rallen2 on 2008-03-24 11:08:59 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 25 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Republic
Democracy
Thoughts
Does a criticism of Athenian democracy serve to discredit élitist forms of democracy --
such as a pluto-democracy, or, a capitalist democracy? Was the Athenian democracy
a libertarian...
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rallen2 on 2008-03-23 13:38:00 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
Yes, I equate anarchism and democracy. I also equate every other form of political
government with élitism, including autocracy, monarchy, aristocracy, plutocracy, and
oligarchy....
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rallen2 on 2008-03-23 12:43:51 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Anarchism
Democracy
Autocracy
Monarchy
Thoughts
Americans cannot solve the Northern Ireland problem. We do not live in Northern Ireland.
We do not know enough about the desires and dreams of the people of Northern Ireland.
But, the...
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rallen2 on 2008-03-23 10:35:46 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 14 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
In ancient Athens, the designation "the people" should have embraced even the slaves,
and women. In a true democracy, there are no slaves. Every adult human being, both
male and...
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Posted by:
rallen2 on 2008-03-23 10:29:43 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Religion
Democracy
Nation-States
Thoughts
If democracy is abused by a people, does that abuse discredit democracy, or does it
discredit the people? Do the reasons for a harsh indictment of democracy give no
reasons to indict the...
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Posted by:
rallen2 on 2008-03-23 10:13:06 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Thoughts
Democracy is a form of government, a method and a system of government.
Democracy is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Democracy is a means
to the end and aim of peace and of justice,...
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Posted by:
rallen2 on 2008-03-23 08:59:20 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
Democracy
Liberty
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