Bill Maher On Believing In Heaven And War
Posted on February 13, 2012 in Political Cartoons
Finances: What’s Really Driving Islamophobia
Posted on February 13, 2012 in Videos
Fear mongering against Muslims has resulted in profits for some. Here’s an explanation why.
Some Follow The Compass, Some Follow The Cross
Posted on February 12, 2012 in Videos
The Rivers, The Roads by Astronautalis off of This Is Our Science.
The US Constitution Is Losing Its Appeal
Posted on February 12, 2012 in Articles
The Article: ‘We The People’ Loses Its Appeal With People Around The World by Adam Liptak in the New York Times.
The Text: The Constitution has seen better days.
Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning.
In 1987, on the Constitution’s bicentennial, Time magazine calculated that “of the 170 countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version.”
A quarter-century later, the picture looks very different. “The U.S. Constitution appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere,” according to a new study by David S. Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia.
The study, to be published in June in The New York University Law Review, bristles with data. Its authors coded and analyzed the provisions of 729 constitutions adopted by 188 countries from 1946 to 2006, and they considered 237 variables regarding various rights and ways to enforce them.
