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  • Bill Clinton urges 'communitarianism'

    05/29/2009 7:46:25 AM PDT · by NativeNewYorker · 26 replies · 723+ views
    upi via email no link | 5/29/9
    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 29 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told crowds in two eastern Canadian provinces there had to more public involvement in solving the world's problems. Clinton spoke first on Thursday in St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, and coined his own term -- communitarianism -- for personal involvement, the city's Telegram newspaper reported. "All of us need to think of our citizenship in terms of what we can do in our communities and halfway around the world," he said. "The truth is, cynicism and pessimism is an excuse to do nothing." He later...
  • Communitarianism - The Dictatorship of Everything

    01/05/2007 7:00:58 AM PST · by hedgetrimmer · 13 replies · 485+ views
    American Chronicle ^ | January 4, 2007 | Nancy Levant
    Let us start with the premise the title offers. Let us assume that our Constitution and three branches of government, our state constitutions and governors, our schools and universities, our health care systems, taxation systems, all regional and appointed governing bodies, commissions, and councils; our churches and synagogues, our military, land and watershed systems, and all forms of licensure and credentialing, including travel, are under the governing auspices of internationally emerging laws. Then let us try to figure out what is not under global dictatorship specifically here in the United States. We still have our 2nd Amendment intact, though it...
  • A New Politics

    02/06/2004 11:45:37 PM PST · by farmfriend · 25 replies · 272+ views
    Tech Central Station ^ | 02/06/2004 | Frederick Turner
    A New Politics By Frederick Turner A realignment is taking place in the politics of this country and indeed of the world at large. It is increasingly difficult to define the meanings of left and right, liberal and conservative. Democratic candidates are running on once-Republican platforms of fiscal restraint, protection of jobs from foreign competition, and the principle of leaving dictators alone; the Republican President proposes expensive prescription drug and space exploration plans, encourages legal guest workers, and sets out to make the world safe for democracy. Progress is surely the property of the "conservatives," while resistance to economic, technological...