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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.
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You’ve probably heard it elsewhere by now, but Jim Taricani has been sentenced to six months of home confinement.
I was surprised to read in Sunday’s Projo that the Taricani case continues. There is still a fundamental question I have yet to see answered anywhere in public. Did Taricani waive his right to a jury trial in this case? If so, why? If not, how has Judge Torres’ managed to skirt the whole right-to-trial-by-jury…
