NYT: Non-Partisan Voters Practically a Third Party

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

At least, that paraphrase is my interpretation of a recent bit of news-commentary on the statistics of party affiliation: the share of the electorate that registers as independent has grown at a faster rate than Republicans or Democrats in 12 states. The rise has been so significant that in states like ...

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Liberty and Christianity

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I've finally gotten around to reading a book that I was very happy to find under the Christmas tree: Democracy in America. In the original introduction to this classic treatise, the author, a French nobleman by the name of Alexis de Tocqueville, lays out some of the apparent conflicts between ...

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