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No. 1404: Art, Truth & Politics---Pinter's Nobel Lecture And political satire, of course, adheres to none of these precepts, in fact does precisely the opposite, which is its proper function. Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/1404.html   (4061 words)

Next United Kingdom general election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Conservative Party will seek to regain its dominant position in politics against losses in the 1990s, and to replace Labour as the governing party. Cameron has faced criticism from figures on the right of his party, such as Norman Tebbit, for being too liberal, and from figures on the left of his party, such as Ken Clarke, for being a Eurosceptic. Parties expected to contest the election that won no representatives at Westminster in 2005, but had seats in the devolved assemblies and European Parliament, include the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom Independence Party, the various national Green parties, and the Scottish Socialist Party. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2009/10   (1705 words)

Western Schism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lacking any real theological or doctrinal underpinnings, being rather driven by politics, it was resolved after 40 years by the Council of Constance. Sustained by national and factional rivalries throughout Catholic Christendom, the schism survived the deaths of both initial claimants; Pope Boniface IX, crowned at Rome in 1389, and Antipope Benedict XIII, who reigned in Avignon from 1394, maintained their rival courts. When Boniface died in 1404, the eight cardinals of the Roman conclave offered to refrain from electing a new pope if Benedict resigned; his legates refused on his behalf, and the Roman party elected Pope Innocent VII. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Schism   (752 words)

PISTOLS, POLITICS AND PRODUCTS LIABILITY It was appropriate that the issue was finally decided in the political arena, but it was equally appropriate for the court to fulfill its judicial responsibility to determine the issue before it without regard to how the legislature or voters would react. Political interest groups are aligned on both sides of the issue;[263] political action committees contribute money to candidates favoring one or the other view;[264] legislative battles are fought.[265] But the same may be said for many other products that are not commonly thought of as political issues. Gun control may be a bigger issue in terms of the number of political activists on both sides, the number of media stories about the issue, the extent to which political pollsters survey public opinion on the issue and the like, but it is qualitatively no more political than the pesticide issue. www.saf.org /LawReviews/BogusC1.html   (14553 words)

International Crisis Group -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Pressures to open up politics and the economy are mounting but the authorities have failed to respond. There is growing realisation that the continuation of violence has actually bolstered concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the military elite. Recognise that the Algerian authorities are reluctant to implement the above priorities on their own and tie cooperation, therefore, to progress toward genuine economic reform that replaces personalised fiefdoms with autonomous institutional frameworks capable of releasing the country’s considerable economic potential. www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=1404&l=4   (960 words)

Social Security Long viewed as the “third rail” of American politics, Social Security is now the focus of national attention as President George W. Bush pushes for privatization. Béland reconstructs the political history of Social Security, describes the impact of subsequent amendments to the original act, and offers comparative insights from other countries that can improve our understanding of the debate. Succinct and illuminating, Béland’s work provides concerned citizens with a thoughtful exploration of how the politics of Social Security evolved, while offering scholars new theoretical insights about the welfare state and the role of ideas and institutions in policymaking. www.kansaspress.ku.edu /belsoc.html   (539 words)

Radical Druid: Politics Archives No, despite its definition as "an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view... Here is a poem from a few months ago that I used on my John Kerry volunteer page: America, your shadow casts a lengthy darkness where it should serve as a lamp to guide the blind; and those enemies you... Democracy is dependent upon a single, basic premise: that those with power as a result of wealth and social standing are willing to reject the advantage conferred by the possesion of this power and reject the use of any such... www.radicaldruid.com /movabletype/archives/politics   (936 words)

APR 1404 PEOPLE IN POLITICS ADVISORY To explore the implications of the profound demographic transformation now under way in Los Angeles, the conference "People and Politics in Los Angeles," will be hosted by Loyola Marymount University's Center for the Study of Los Angeles on April 15 in St. Roberts Hall. The conference seeks to facilitate a dialogue between elected, activist, academic and media leaders on urban issues, and to make a contribution to the future of Los Angeles electoral politics by identifying key lessons drawn from the recent political histories of Los Angeles, New York, and other large cities. Sponsored by The Center for The Study of Los Angeles at LMU, The Drum Major Institute, and Dr. John Mollenkopf of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York, the Los Angeles event follows a successful New York conference exploring the same urban issues. www.lmu.edu /Page11824.aspx   (520 words)

Join the Battle for the White House You don't have to live in a battleground state to join the battle for the White House in November. This weblog will be more of a running journal recording thoughts on politics, reporting on events, and offering riffs and reflections on what's in the news and what's not (but should be). A movement is growing that aims to build a politics of decency and sanity, which speaks to the generosity of the American people. www.thenation.com /blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=1404   (606 words)

washingtonpost.com U.S. House 4 Agricultural communities rooted in strong religious beliefs shape the character of the 4th, a solidly Republican district in Indiana's northeast corner. The district's long tradition of social conservatism begins in the large Amish communities to the northwest, which are not overtly politically active but both form and reflect the area's traditional values. Rural voters, on farms that lead the state in wheat, oats and soybeans, bolster the state's Republican leanings. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/congress/106/in/in04   (374 words)

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- DeLay calls Democrats party of 'extremist appeasement' Because of that shift, the differences between the two major political parties are now starker than they've been in at least a generation." Leading Democrats, he said, "do not believe we are even at war, and therefore do not believe we should be fighting one in the first place. Kennedy, D-Mass, last week said the war was a fraud "made up in Texas" to give Republicans a political boost, and the money for the war was being used to bribe foreign leaders to send troops. www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20030924-1404-delay-democrats.html   (587 words)

Commonweal - A review of religion, politics and culture Dialogue is not polite conversation meant to comfort people who prefer to stay just as they are or who want to avoid disagreements. For example, “The Dialogue of the Religions and the Relationship between Judaism and Christianity” valuably draws on the pioneering insights of Nicholas of Cusa’s fifteenth-century On the Peace of the Faith. In Benedict’s summation, Nicholas is praised for seeing a realistic connection between peace as a religious goal and peace as political reconciliation. commonwealmagazine.org /article.php?id_article=1404   (3204 words)

Pop and Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) This isn't necessarily so for younger African Americans, however, who appear to be more open when it comes to where they place their allegiance on election day. A recent study by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reports that 34% of fls ages 18-25 and 29% of fls ages 26-35 call themselves Independents; a healthy chunk of votes that both parties can’t afford to ignore.  She is also the creator of POLITOPICS, a centrist blog on race and politics. www.popandpolitics.com /articles_detail.cfm?articleID=1404   (1438 words)

Politics Bulletin Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Politics Chat is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for those around the world in different time zones. What we hope to do is build a political chat community of regulars who come to share their point of view, voice their opinions on virtually any subject they want, hopefully with a touch of politics and we know almost everything in our lives is touched in some way by politics. to the imposter "from said" poster of 1404: again, i would rather be scammed by a republikkkan and know where they are coming from than to have to deal with a liberal democrat who feels the government owes everything to everyone no matter how much it costs. www.corpuschristi.bbb.org /cgi-bin/chat/p_chat.pl   (10956 words)

Social Security Online - HISTORY This new book by Canadian sociology professor Daniel Béland is one of the few attempts to produce a comprehensive policy history of the U.S. Social Security system, in historical perspective, that ranges from the creation of the program to the present day. In a new essay entitled "Roosevelt As Madison: Social Security and American Federalism," Professor Derthick summarizes the evidence for the view that FDR, and the Social Security Act he designed, are more in the tradition of the Madisonian philosophy of federalism rather than in the centralizing philosophy of Hamilton. There are also many other observations of historical interest on the general subject of federal budgeting and the role of trust funds in federal programs. www.ssa.gov /history/books.html   (376 words)

Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics, Iraq, and Culture Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics, Iraq, and Culture. There are three necessities to get Iraq stable: political (including regional diplomacy), economic and military. And considering we've been in Iraq for over 2 years, where are the political and economic plans? www.taylormarsh.com /archives_view.php?id=1404   (503 words)

Current journal subscriptions not duplicated in EJC for Political Science FUND = Political Sci / RECORD # = o1844428. FUND = Political Sci / RECORD # = o1844660. FUND = Political Sci / RECORD # = o1845019. www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cats/usedata/polisciB.htm   (1674 words)

Solarvoid » Politics & Ethics The prevailing philosophy of the left has many names and ideas: collectivism, identity politics, minority rights, the Nanny State, but what it all boils down to is that group rights always trump individual rights. For tactical reasons, nation states and political parties form alliances with the enemies of their enemies. Especially to criticize the twisted Leftist worldview that the extension of democracy and the liberation of a nation from one of the cruelest and most sadistic regimes in the world, regardless of what you believe our government’s intentions were, amounts to an act of terrorism. www.solarvoid.com /?cat=2   (5758 words)

Department Of Political Science "Political Institutions, Public Management, and Policy Choice," Journal of Public Administration: Research and Theory, January 1999 Co-Author. Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice, (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall) January, 1987. Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago. www.uic.edu /depts/pols/faculty/jackknott.html   (227 words)

IGPA Conference Highlights The Independent Counsel statute has failed to promote public confidence in government, failed to remove politics from the process of investigating top executive branch officials and failed to remove the conflict of interest in the executive investigating itself. The scandal and Nixon's attempts to block the investigation significantly damaged Americans' faith in the executive branch. Congress saw the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which created the Office of the Independent Counsel, as a way to restore that faith while removing from the investigation process both politics and the conflict of interest inherent in one member of the executive branch investigating another. www.igpa.uillinois.edu /events/confHighlights/corruption.htm   (551 words)

MooreThoughts » Interesting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) It seems that MooreThoughts has received visits in this past week in some number from this site, otherwise known as the Farrakhan Factor. Written by Nathan Moore on February 5, 2006 at 4:17 pm and is filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. moorethoughts.com /2006/02/05/interesting-7   (161 words)

CNN.com - Isaacson steps up at CNN - Jul. 9, 2001 He began his journalism career as a reporter for the Sunday Times  of London and later became a reporter and city hall columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. Isaacson joined Time  in 1978 as a national affairs writer in New York and then moved to Washington as a political correspondent. In 1993, he was named editor of new media for Time Inc., and in 1995 he was named managing editor of Time. cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/07/09/wg   (245 words)

Yale Law Journal | Issue Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) While pointing to the large number of constitutional provisions that concern the mechanics of government, Ely offers no satisfactory account of why these provisions should be used to infer a master principle to guide interpretation of the document as a whole. John Hart Ely argued that judicial review is most appropriate when democratic politics has broken down. Professor Eskridge argues that judicial review is also appropriate to lower the stakes of pluralist politics. www.yalelawjournal.org /archive_overview.asp?issue=4/1/2005   (620 words)

Gave Money to Help a Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) -"What about other political contributions [other than tax check-offs]. to a political party during this election year?" NOTE: For 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988 and later, a Yes response for either party or candidate question has been included as Yes. www.umich.edu /~nes/nesguide/toptable/tab6b_5.htm   (365 words)

IGPA Conference Highlights Katy Harriger is an associate professor of political science at Wake Forest University and author of Independent Justice: The Federal special Prosecutor in American Politics. "It is not possible for anyone in the American political system to operate as a lone ranger. And, she said, the independent counsels did initially raise the level of confidence the public had in the executive. www.igpa.uillinois.edu /events/confHighlights/values.htm   (334 words)

Journals by subject area - politics Central Asia and the Caucasus: journal of social and political studies Social politics: international studies in gender, state and society Theoria: a journal of social and political theory www.lse.ac.uk /collections/IBSS/about/Journals_subjects/politics_js.htm   (750 words)

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti - IMF Author Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Research interests: international macroeconomics, international financial integration, fiscal policy, political economy. Theory and Evidence,” in Positive Political Economy: Theory and Evidence, edited by S. Eijffinger and H. Huizinga, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 217-47. “The Political Economy of Capital Controls” (joint with Alberto Alesina and Vittorio Grilli), in Capital Mobility: the Impact on Consumption, Investment and Growth, edited by Leonardo Leiderman and Assaf Razin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. www.imf.org /external/np/cv/CV.aspx?AuthID=106   (1008 words)

gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail It runs a sizeable network of social services and > has a solid base of popular support centered in the largely poor Shi'i > community but cutting across denominational lines. Yet no matter how > courageous its fighters may be, no matter how many schools and hospitals > it runs, Hezbollah is essentially a right-wing political movement. Hezbollah's > political ideal, the Islamic Republic of Iran, enforces medieval religious > law, imposes brutal strictures on women and LGBT people, persecutes > religious and ethnic minorities, and has executed tens of thousands of > leftists and other political dissenters. blog.gmane.org /gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail   (2280 words)

[No title] Old political campaign signs in local area littered around No Political Sign Edict in City Parking Lot. SIL:Teens picking up political signs and dumping them at recycling center www.maag.ysu.edu /wkbn/pol2.html   (573 words)

Africa Dialogue Series No 468: Migration, Identity and The Politics of African Intellectuals in the North No 533: The politics of a music star No. 1538: From Activism to Politics in Nigeria www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads   (1583 words)

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