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Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’

December 21st, 2013 - 5:59 pm § in Misc.

Proposed Revisions To UW Faculty Code.

HOW WELL DOES THE UW FACULTY CODE PROTECT ACADEMIC DREEDOM?   A proposal (see document) has been sent to the UW faculty to revise our Code to address protections for Faculty Free Speech.  My own opinion is that the proposal is weak and may even decrease faculty rights.  The UW faculty do not ha[...]

November 22nd, 2013 - 3:09 am § in Misc.

A Texas Anniversary .. Nov 22

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November 21st, 2013 - 9:32 am § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: Senate May End Filibuster Rule.

Its About Time We Became a Democracy Few Americans understand that our system of balances was NOT intended to be a two party system.  The small coterie of founding fathers, like  th Bolsheviks or the Jacobins, were revolutionaries .. and elite who did not envision a system built around organized p[...]

September 15th, 2013 - 10:47 am § in America, Politics

Berkeley Blog: Can the US spread democracy and should it do so?

The trap of ‘democratization’ as ‘wishful thinking’: The state of the art in the Arab world[...]