TR EMERITUS

I've finished watching the film "Lincoln" and was struck with the degree to which one can held fast onto one's own beliefs & convictions. If my memory serves me, wasn't it Machiavelli who said (in the Prince) that the person (group) who owns the words wins? This is the issue that troubles me most about our current political... 

I do not like the democracy that is practiced in America and other countries that follow their system. It is a flawed system. It does more harm than good. It gives the impression that the people can choose their government. In practice, they get the same kind of government, although the elected people may change. They generally... 

In 2008 when he founded the Reform Party, JBJ famously asked the question whether the citizens of Singapore enjoyed any more freedom than the people of Belarus and North Korea. Although that might have seemed a bit of a stretch then, certainly in the case of North Korea, the recently passed Foreign Interference (Countermeasures)...