http://www.democracy-project.com/ en-us Bnksd1@aol.com 2008-05-12T19:13:44-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003794.html To now, the Executive and Congressional branches have had exclusive authority to set US foreign policy, and trade policy. Today, the Supreme Court failed to hear a case, due to the stock holdings of several Justices causing the absence of... 3794@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-12T19:13:44-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003793.html The New York Times’ leadership on many MSM memes is dependent on others’ agreement and interest. However, when the New Yprk Times presents an important report that doesn’t fit the wider themes of the Left, they are largely ignored. Indeed,... 3793@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-10T15:58:13-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003792.html On May 7, Senator John McCain delivered the following remarks at Oakland University in Rochester, MI: Thank you. Last year the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British and American slave trade in 1807. Nearly fifty-six... 3792@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-09T15:37:26-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003791.html In modern Israel’s darkest hours in 1948, about 3500 international volunteers -- including non-Jews -- came to Israel from 43 countries to fight for its existence, and were crucial to that success. Some, like Dr. Jason Fenton, are still... 3791@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-08T15:00:17-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003790.html 150 paratroopers from around the world are in Israel, for a mass jump to salute the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) during its 60th anniversary celebrations. Countries represented include the US, , England, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Singapore,... 3790@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-06T23:20:46-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003789.html Last week, I posted an email exchange between Tammy Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer in Hebrew at UC-Santa Cruz, and UCSC's chancellor, George Blumenthal, concerning anti-Semitic graffiti at Oakes College of UCSC. Her latest email to the chancellor, in which she implores... 3789@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-06T13:21:14-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003786.html Hope is deeply ingrained in the Israeli consciousness, along with resilience, creativity, progress, democracy, self-criticism, and decency. There is sometimes unavoidable friction among them, but cumulatively they make Israel a unique modern miracle among nations. May 8, the 60th anniversary,... 3786@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-05T11:40:15-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003785.html If, as ‘60’s and ‘70’s and today’s opponents of the US’s forces in Vietnam argued, the US was opposing Vietnam’s human right to “liberation,” then why don’t they argue that today's catering to Vietnam’s sorry human rights record isn’t... 3785@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-02T18:56:27-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003784.html Will the New York State legislation just signed, hereafter called Rachel’s Law, evoke a Hollywood film about the courageous fight of a lone woman to mobilize a State to protect the freedom of speech of Americans? In 1734, John Peter... 3784@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-02T13:24:14-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003783.html Publishers Weekly reports Rachel Ehrenfeld hopes ““other American authors will continue to expose what needs to be exposed and that publishers will not be shy in publishing it.” The announcement from Rachel Ehrenfeld’s American Center For Democracy: ACD UPDATE Contact:... 3783@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-01T15:16:30-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003782.html How many times can the same earnings be taxed? Thrift is penalized, while legislators lay more burdens on the thrifty. 1. The progressive income tax imposes a higher cost on hard-work and education. 2. The more you earn, the higher... 3782@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-01T14:57:44-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003781.html Hamas’s TV station, broadcast throughout the Middle East, has the revelation that, Ben Gurion was interested in sending "strong and energetic youth [for Israel], while all the rest - the disabled, the handicapped, and people with special needs, they... 3781@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-05-01T13:39:18-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003780.html Vietnamese refugees refer to the month that South Vietnam fell to the North as Black April. Today is the 33rd anniversary of the fall of Saigon, now called by its masters Ho Chi Minh City. Let’s see what 33-years of... 3780@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-04-30T18:04:14-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003779.html Last December, Israel’s President Shimon Peres greeted the Beijing Olympic by saying: China built the longest wall in history. Now it is building the largest Olympic Games in history. The wall was meant to conceal China from its enemies, while... 3779@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-04-30T15:36:27-05:00 http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003778.html Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer in Hebrew at the University of California, Santa Cruz, sent the emails below to UCSC's chancellor, George Blumenthal. She asks that he act in the face of the anti-Semitic, anti-American graffiti, reproduced below, that she saw... 3778@http://www.democracy-project.com/ 2008-04-30T12:46:39-05:00