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Democrats and Democratization

By Carroll Andrew Morse | March 11, 2005 |

The New Republic‘s Noam Scheiber beleives that President Bush’s democracy agenda abroad may help build a Democratic majority at home. Over at TechCentralStation, I explain why I believe Scheiber’s argument is flawed.

Dictator Chavez of Venezuela

By Carroll Andrew Morse | February 20, 2005 |

Sunday’s Projo had a good op-ed about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s increasingly dictatorial behavior. In case you may have heard from some sources that Chavez is a legitimate democrat, here is a full explanation of why he is not.

Meeting in RI

By Carroll Andrew Morse | January 6, 2005 | Comments Off on Meeting in RI

As a result of the separation of powers legislation passed in November, legislators are barred from serving on Rhode Island’s executive boards and commissions. Governor Carcieri has proposed a new slate of members for the Rhode Island Lottery commission. Senate President William Murphy, however, claims the lottery commission is exempt from the separation of powers…

Understand the UN!

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 20, 2004 | Comments Off on Understand the UN!

If you would like to understand why the United Nations is not nearly as ineffective as you first might think, check out my latest article over at TechCentralStation.

Why The Dems Have a Hard Time with Foreign Policy Cred

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 16, 2004 | Comments Off on Why The Dems Have a Hard Time with Foreign Policy Cred

For a classic example of why the Democrats have a hard time gaining foreign policy respectability, see this Matt Ygelsias post over at Tapped (via Jonah Goldberg at NRO). Yglesias’ post is an example of the classic Jimmy Carter-style thinking that has crippled Democratic foreign policy, attacking the United States for pursuing its own interests,…

Re: Getting to Know Them

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 16, 2004 | Comments Off on Re: Getting to Know Them

I do not disagree with the idea that more information about the state’s legislators would benefit the democratic process, but I am not convinced that biographical data or past voting records are the most important pieces of information that a state-level blog can compile. My biggest complaint about local legacy media legislative reporting is that…

News Scope in the Internet Age

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 13, 2004 | Comments Off on News Scope in the Internet Age

The Los Angeles Times, is “folding its daily national edition”. Will the next tier of papers down the news chain (in scope, not quality, necessarily) take a cue from this? As a news consumer, I would have increased interest in the Projo if it devoted less space to reprinting wire-service stories — which I can…

Wilson vs. Taricani

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 10, 2004 |

For us separation-of-powers enthusiasts, there is an important distinction between the Plame-Wilson case and the Taricani case. In the Plame-Wilson affair, journalists are being asked to tell what they know about the violation of an actual law. It is illegal — according to a law passed by Congress, signed by the President — to leak…

The Bricker Amendment

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 10, 2004 | Comments Off on The Bricker Amendment

An NRO article by Andrew C. McCarthy on the subject of international law got me thinking about a Neil Boortz column I read a few months ago. About 50 years ago, a U.S. Senator named John Bricker also worried about the nature international law. Senator Bricker proposed a Constitutional amendment which read… Section 1. A…

Taricani: 6 Months Home Confinement

By Carroll Andrew Morse | December 9, 2004 | Comments Off on Taricani: 6 Months Home Confinement

You’ve probably heard it elsewhere by now, but Jim Taricani has been sentenced to six months of home confinement.