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• in Politics
  Pay As You Go Elections - the Future for Participatory Democracy?
  French Socialist Party Primaries had a fascinating feature - you paid €1 and then you could vote. Is this the way to raise voter turnout and save our participatory democracy?
  by saragoldberger / on Nov 14, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “party politics”

 

• Green Party to contest by-election

  
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  The Green party has opened nominations for a candidate to contest the Ikaroa Rāwhiti by-election . The party has only ever won one electorate. that was a general seat and the party didn’t manage to hold that. The chances of its winning the by-election are slight. The interest will be in whether it manages to ...
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• Podcast: The Medias Role in the IRS Scandal

  
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  THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with senior writer Mark Hemingway on his editorial about the burgeoning IRS scandal and the medias coverage of it. This podcast can be downloaded here . Subscribe to THE WEEKLY STANDARDs iTunes podcast feed here . ADVERTISEMENT: This Weekly Standard podcast is brought to you by ...
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• The Health Care Fault Line

  
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  Many hours have been spent discussing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with dire predictions from those who have opposed it.  It is not clear how anyone can object without offering an alternative which fixes the faults.  Clear or not, this has been a political mantra… “repeal Obamacare”. Arguing that ...
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• On the Arkansas Times, Part III: Are Private-Option Advocates Really That Much Smarter Than We Are?

  
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  Upon rereading David Ramsey’s piece on the genesis of the “private option,” it’s hard not to notice the flood of admiring compliments he bestows on the intellect of its creators. They are “clever,” “smart,” “open-minded,” and “pragmatic.” As they work in tandem with Governor Mike Beebe, they ...
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• Curious creatures these defecting Tories

  
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  Very interesting to read in the Telegraph today that Conservative activists have begun defecting to the UK Independence Party in protest at the Tory leadership’s ‘arrogant and insulting’ attitude towards grassroots members. So let’s get this straight. These Tory activists have stayed part of the ...
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• Uninvited civil society

  
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  Most textbooks make a point of arguing that Communist Party control of Chinese civil society is key to maintaining the partys power position. What if civil society is not controlled? Social Media in China Fuel Citizen Response to Quake The rapid grass-roots response to the [April 20 earthquake] reveals just how ...
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• SNP tightens party grip on local councillors in further chaos

  
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  A range of credible sources have it that: SNP party group leader, Councillor Roddy McCuish intends to stand down as party group leader today and will resign from the SNP. This would be a typically clean-cut, no-nonsense decision from a man who is universally respected for his honesty. New leader, novice councillor ...
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• Swivel eyed loons, party membership and post democracy

  
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  So Tory Andrew Feldman may or may not have said that some of the party’s members are “swivel-eyed loons”. I am not especially bothered whether he said it or not, because as far as I am concerned it is right. And it is not only in the Tory party that this is so – it is the same in any political party, Labour ...
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• Argyll and Bute: where now – experiences and choices?

  
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  In the unprincipled goings on of the last administration, led by the Alliance of Independent Councillors, we hoped that a party-led administration would bring a discipline and a set of principles that would be stabilising and restore trust to local government. The opposite has been the case. Nothing could have been ...
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• SNP Constituency Association Convener’s email tells a tale

  
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  Yesterday, 11th May, SNP Constituency Association Convener, Robert Allan, sent out the following email. Sent: 11 May 2013 20:01 Subject: Message from the Constituency Convener Dear Fellow Nationalists, It has not proved possible to organise a CA meeting for tomorrow but, along with the CA Organiser and the CA ...
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• Job Done – Gilmore’s gone

  
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  It looks like the back-room boys have done their work after the call went out mid-week that the board wasn’t getting anywhere. Some calls have been made, some stern words been had, and Aaron Gilmore is gone . Job done. Disgraced National List MP Aaron Gilmore has announced he will resign from Parliament. “It ...
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• Larry Kudlow calls IRS targeting of conservative non-profit groups a Stalinist witch hunt

  
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    Tea Party organizations had no idea they were being targeted by the White House using the IRS to discourage conservative activism! By Doc Vega Economist commentator, Larry Kudlow of MSNBC, one of the few sane voices in that news agency, characterized the latest news of IRS targeting of patriot and Tea Party ...
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• “There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government…” ~ Howard Zinn

  
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  On the eve of what is most likely going to be a change in government in this province, one would think that I would be exceptionally excited about all of it. After all, I’ve spent many years researching and writing stories on the current Liberal government, holding them to account. Sadly, over the last two ...
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• Corruption: Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac

  
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  u-bam-a urges Congress to back his nominee to Federal Housing Finance Agency which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. More corruption. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the government in 2008 as mortgage losses mounted. They have received $187.5 billion in taxpayer funds to stay afloat, while paying about ...
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• Withdrawals move numbers against proposed new coalition

  
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  [Updated below 17.30] The proposed new coalition administration for Argyll and Bute claimed a majority of 25-11 in its launch announcement. We showed last night [10th May] that this was incorrect – and that the three Argyll First had been wrongly assumed to be a part of it – without enquiry as to their ...
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• Iceland chooses independence

  
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  A time-lag distorts our perception of foreign countries. Whenever I mention, for example, how well Norway is doing outside the EU, a dozen half-clever Lefties shoot back: ‘Yeah, so you want Norwegian spending levels, do you?’ Well obviously I’d rather have Norwegian spending levels (40.2 per cent of GDP) than ...
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• KevCast 25 – In Memory of Howard Phillips

  
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  Listen to the streaming audio  here  or download the mp3  here . Back a few weeks ago I was saddened to learn of the passing of Howard Phillips. Phillips was a man of principle who was champion for of the Constitution against the rising tides of secularism and liberalism. One of the original founders of the ...
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• Democratic Party Political Corruption

  
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  “Top RS official apologized for inappropriate “targeting” by the agency of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative political groups.” The above is a Reuters website headline. More political corruption in the United States.  It all starts with the loser-in-chief. How can the United States ...
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• Bias Against Right Wing? IRS Says Sorry.

  
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  Did your left leaning friends kid you when you talked about a conspiracy against the Tea Party? Did they tell you that the investigations of right wing groups was normal, or maybe a figment of your imagination? Well, you were right. This week the IRS has formally apologized to groups it unfairly chose for ...
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• Black Voter Surge Spells Even More Woe for the GOP

  
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  The fond hope of the GOP is that the census revelation that for the first time in census history a higher percentage of blacks than whites turned out for the 2012 presidential election is an aberration. The aberration is, of course, President Obama. The conventional political thinking is that record numbers of ...
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