While I’m extremely critical of many political elements of the State of Israel, one of the things about it that I generally regard with favour is its electoral system. Its proportional-representation system of parliamentary, responsible government is incredibly unpopular with American Jews, in my (admittedly anecdotal) experience, who often think ( Read more... )

I just watched IE's Best Buy Mission http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/  (yay procrastination).  Awesome, but I was really disturbed by the behaviour of the police.  They really just could not seem to distinguish between store policies and laws.  They ( Read more... )

I was taking one of those 'political quizzes' over dinner for fun (appropos the election), and noticed repeatedly a very disturbing trope that was popularised in the Reagan years and has even been internalised by leftists because it's become such a basic presumption of political discourse: viz., leftists are for 'bigger government' and 'more ( Read more... )