All Posts Tagged With: "Waco"
“Deliberative Democracy” Dementia
A specter is haunting America ‘s politicians and professors—the spect(er of illegitimacy. The political-intellectual elite fear that millions of Americans will conclude that the current democracy is a fraud—that they are being given bogus choices at the ballot box—and that the phrase “will of the people” now means as little as “the check is in [...]
1May2007 | James Bovard | 4 comments | ContinuedAbsolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department
Regnery Publishing • 2001 • 385 pages • $27.95 Reviewed by Arch T. Allen “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton’s famous admonition underlies both the title and subtitle of this account of how President Clinton’s promised “most ethical administration” in American history came to include a politicized and corrupt Justice [...]
1May2002 | David Limbaugh | 0 comments | ContinuedNo More Wacos: What’s Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It by David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman
Prometheus Books • 1997 • 524 pages • $26.95 Morgan Reynolds is director of the Criminal Justice Center at the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, and professor of economics at Texas A&M University. But who is to guard the guards?,” wrote the Roman poet Juvenal. No event in modern times better illustrates the wisdom [...]
1Feb1998 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | Continued-
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