Over at Taki's Magazine, John Derbyshire has some suggestions for amending the federal Constitution of those United States, amongst others, withholding the vote in federal elections from all civilian federal employees.
Royal World has a few thoughts on the recent Australian Royal visit.
Ad Orientem observes a return to the white tie.
Over at The American Conservative, W. James Antle III reflects on anti-anti-war Republicans.
An article at The American Interest, interestingly concludes:
As Richard Dowden, the director of the Royal African Society, put it, “[M]ake no mistake, parliamentary democracy as we in the West understand it, has no role in today’s Ethiopia. Out of the 547 elected members of the country’s lower chamber only one is from an opposition party. I met him. Girma Seifu Maru is a nice man but a lonely one. As Meles Zenawi said: ‘There is no connection between democracy and development.’”
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