Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy, making it easier for entrepreneurs to start jobs, making it easier for businesses to grow and create more jobs. That has historically been the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party.
Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.
Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.
What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
As governor, I'll focus on these concrete steps to make it easier to vote and include every community in our democratic process.
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.
We should, through civic referendums, determine our own pathways and political status after 2047, because in this lies the future of our democratic movement. If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.
A lot of the Democratic base believes that it's the right the to do to bring as many of these refugees in as possible for - there are many members of the Democratic Party who may think that tens of thousands are not enough, and we're not doing our part until we bring in even more.
Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.