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The siren song of independence and national self-determination has sounded once again across Europe. It is a song that holds echoes of a century ago, when the internal force of nationalism convulsed the European empires into world war. Yet, while the song remains the same, the tune has changed.

In a hard fought election campaign, voters in the city of Tigard appear to have narrowly enacted another barrier to light rail expansion in suburban Portland. The Washington County Elections Division reported that with 100 percent of precincts counted, Charter Amendment 34-210 had obtained 51 percent of the vote, compared to 49 percent opposed.

A survey conducted by the R-Street Institute and the National Taxpayers Union shows that voters across the ideological spectrum oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA). If signed into law, the…

No one’s liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session, and freedom is lost one government program at a time. Yet some people will trade freedom for comfort, especially when they perceive that someone else is footing the bill.

In this case of “is an American adult smarter than an Egyptian first-grader,” the victor is clear.

Could it be that Republicans, on principle, are pushing for Voter ID laws as the least-intrusive way possible to protect the integrity of the vote?

I’m a Chicago native who moved to Wisconsin fulltime in 2002, where I had vacationed for many years. I love Wisconsin, but here I’m known as a FIB. The “I”…

Death may be the end of life but it apparently is not the end of participation in New Hampshire elections. New Hampshire does not require voter ID. So the makers of…