| Results 261 - 270 of 500 | Page 27 of 50 |
| Results per-page: 10 | 20 | 50 | 100 |
Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 31, 2001
I think you remember how Congress and the President pass so-called "continuing resolutions" whenever they can't agree on a federal budget. It's not hard. You just take the five minutes you need to conduct a roll call and you do it. That's why it's so annoying that Congress says it's…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: August 7, 2000
One claim made by term limits supporters is that limits will provide more opportunities for women and minorities to play a larger role in the political process. Term limits also promise greater representation. As a white male, I have nothing against white males, believe me. I also think someone's principles…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: December 10, 2003
Sometimes people say that term limits are irrelevant. It's not that they oppose term limits. It's just that they think political process as such doesn't matter at all. As one skeptic puts it, "the central problem is American culture, not legislative culture. The country wants to spend without paying, and…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: March 29, 1999
There they go again. Career politicians in Washington are conspiring to grab another pay raise. Little do they seem to care that most of us the folks who pay the bills and the ones they're supposed to be representing believe Congress is already overpaid, over-perked and over-pensioned. The base salary…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: April 16, 2001
It's great to have protection. I think you know what I mean. The right of initiative and referendum. The right to directly pass a good law or knock out a bad one. The right to govern your governors. Maybe you remember Proposition 13, the California law passed in the 1970s…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: February 21, 2000
In football, it doesn't get any better than the NFL. That's what it means to be a pro. In politics, to be "a pro" means something very different. Missouri State Sen. John Schneider has been in office for 30 years. He doesn't like the term limits that 75 percent of…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: October 8, 2003
The apocalypse . . . Armageddon . . . the California recall. Well, that's one down. And I feel good about it. The recall was called all manner of wild and crazy names by elitist bipartisan hipsters. However, it turned out to be just another example of the American-as-apple-pie process…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: April 30, 2001
What's the point of democracy? Isn't it to delegate authority to representatives who then discuss and debate the issues, vote their conscience and so forth? Or are these so-called representatives just supposed to follow the orders of one guy at the top? Californians still remember how Gray Davis groused about…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: February 19, 2008
Are you like me? Are you interested in the right of direct democracy, of initiative and referendum? Do you wish we had some nifty collaborative way to aggregate fast-changing facts about citizen initiatives and other ballot issues? No sooner do I wave my magic wand than somebody else has done…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: May 29, 2019
The logic for drug prohibition is direct: to keep people from hurting themselves with recreational drugs, we must prevent them from accessing those drugs. Voilà! There are a number of things wrong with that, though, and one is this: governments cannot even keep illegal drugs out of prisons. In California,…