Commentary Americans are getting fed up with the mainstream media using leftist narratives that undermine trust in democracy and our election system. A recent New York Times/Sienna poll found 59 percent of Americans consider the “mainstream media” a threat to democracy—outranking either President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump. Ironically, it has been corporate…
Fear, Fascism, and Democracy
Commentary Governments use the fear of imminent danger to expand their own power and to impose their own policies on skeptical populations. This kind of apocalyptic alarmism keeps some people in a permanent state of anxiety that threatens their health and mental health. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review said of President Joe Biden’s…
What Is Democracy?
Commentary Leaving aside the attack micro-drama involving Paul Pelosi, the Democrats seem to have two issues going into the midterm elections: abortion and democracy. Neither seems to be getting much purchase with voters. For reasons that seem puzzling to Democratic strategists, making the slaughter of the unborn (or, for some “make them comfortable” Dems, the…
A Disturbing Movement Is Picking Up Steam on the Left—Letting Noncitizens Vote
Commentary Voting has long been one of the privileges of American citizenship, but perhaps not for much longer. Left-wing activists are going all-in with their demands to let noncitizens vote, and Washington, D.C., just took up the charge. The D.C. City Council advanced a bill to let anyone vote in local elections, regardless of citizenship…
‘Save Our Democracy’ Is the New ‘Russia Collusion’
Commentary At this point, it would save everyone time if Democrats could simply point to a policy agenda item that isn’t going to save democracy—if such a thing exists. If Republicans vote, they are killing democracy. If they don’t vote, they are killing democracy. The only way to “save democracy,” writes The Washington Post’s Max…
Overhaul Transparency Law by Adopting Long-Standing Calls for Change, Group Tells MPs
A pro-transparency group is telling MPs to retool the Access to Information Act by dropping the application fee, imposing tighter timelines to respond to requests for files and narrowing exceptions to the law. The changes are among 18 measures outlined by the group Democracy Watch in a submission to the House of Commons committee on…
Is Capitalism Devouring Itself?
Commentary When lockdowns happened in 2020, and then went on and on, and small business was smashed and the bourgeois lifestyle criminalized, and churches shut and normally attacked, and the bureaucracies took over and ruled in the name of science that proved wrong time and time again, and a whole generation of students and workers…
If Walls Could Talk: Touring James Madison’s Virginia Family Home at Montpelier
October 13, 2022
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives,” wrote President James Madison. For six months, the “Father of the Constitution” sequestered himself in his upstairs study in the family’s Virginia home, Montpelier. There, he engaged in an intensive study…
Hungary Appeals for Time as EU Weighs Hefty Fund Freeze
BRUSSELS—Hungary needs time and is urging its European Union partners to be “tolerant,” the country’s justice minister said Tuesday, after the bloc’s executive branch recommended suspending billions of euros in funding over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money. Justice Minister Judit Varga said that Hungary has proposed 17 measures which…
Hungary No Longer a ‘Full Democracy?’
Commentary The European Parliament has voted to declare Hungary no longer a true democracy. The resolution, passed on Sept. 15, describes the central European country as a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” and that while elections do occur, respect for democratic norms and stands is “absent.” The resolution received 433 votes in favour and 123 votes against declaring…
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