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DEMOCRATIC REALISM
An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World
By Charles Krauthammer
(Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary 1987)
2004 Irving Kristol Lecture honoring Krauthammer AEI Annual Dinner (Washington) (C-Span 2-15-04)
Publication Date: February 10, 2004
http://www.aei.org/news19912

Sending Electoral Apathy Into Exile:
The nation's future depends on an informed, involved citizenry.
By Jeffrey Abelson
(Jeffrey Abelson is a filmmaker and writer in Los Angeles).
Los Angeles Times
January 24, 2004

DDC Response
Re: Sending Electoral Apathy Into Exile
Commentary - Voices - January 24, 2004
Voices: A Forum for Community Issues - submission:
"Citizen Patriots" Can Change it All

C-SPAN for news and commentary - without editorializing
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THE DRUDGE REPORT
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THE WASHIINGTON TIMES
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VOTE.COM - polling without leading questions
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INDEPENDANT NATION:
How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics
Author: John Avlon
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
February 2004

ARROGANCE:
Rescuing America from the Media Elite
Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
November 2003

IT'S TIME TO CLAIM OUR SOVEREIGNTY WITH DIRECT DEMOCRACY
Condensed Proposal

WHY WE NEED DIRECT DEMOCRACY - IN BRIEF
With direct democracy, we could change and improve these things and much more with our informed votes:

You can now vote on the Internet for The National Initiative for Democracy. Go to: http://www.ni4d.us/

DIRECT DEMOCRACY
The National Initiative For Direct Democracy
The Direct Democracy Amendment

WE SUPPORT AMERICANS FOR FAIR TAXATION
The President and his staff are considering priorities to be advanced in the next Congress. Write the President NOW!
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NEW BOOK ON THE INITIATIVE PROCESS
From M. Dane Waters and the Initiative and Referendum Institute
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A More Perfect Union wants to give the people more democracy by
"coding a better government"
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Majority Voice (voice of the silent majority) says,
"We finally have the technology to exercise our power"
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INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE BRINGS SCHOOL CHOICE TO THE SUPREME COURT

THE BATTLE OVER CITIZEN LAWMAKING:
The Growing Regulation of Initiatives and Referendums
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press - 2001

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again," -- Thomas Paine Member: Thomas Paine National Historial Association
http://www.thomas-paine.com/tpnha/
Initiative & Referendum Institute
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