Political Science Observer Gifts

Disraeli and Darwinism

'The 'insourcing' will go ahead and some jobs will be off to Leeds or Manchester, but I think I'll be safe...'

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated.

Schengen

"You're fired."

"Nation-building never works."

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"

"The university said he was a climate change denier so remove the statue."

America, are we learning anything?

Sir Winston Churchill

"I can't decide what I fear the most, Putin's Russia or Putin's America."

Oligarchy

The International and May Day Terrorism

Donald Trump Removing Aggressor Label From Vladimir Putin

"I don't like the looks of that!"

"See..? We told you there was nothing there..."

Ahem. I'm eating. Not now, please. Just one tiny question. Believers I American exceptionalism have always said we're the paragon of democracy. So I'm just wondering … How come one party is passing unnecessary laws that'll keep millions of us from voting? They're robbing us of our voice! Could've surprised me.

CIA report

King George I

'Ah, it's so precious to witness a child learn how government actually works...'

Where does it all end up?

I've Always Wanted to Be Oppressed By Someone Who Looks Like Me

To Err Is Human, to Mess up Big-Time Is Democratic

That's What Happens

Compression

"Whoa, don't ask constitutional questions you don't want to know the answers to."

"That one shows our office cliques."

U.S. Foreign Policy

An informed voter is a good voter

'It's historic that the inauguration of a minority is now routine.'

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

Matryoshka/ Russian Gas Cylinders

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

A political promise is intended to be a golden egg...Which is kept in a pork barrel and after an election...Hatches into a dead duck before...it turns invisible so it can quietly vanish.