GETTING THE VOTE OUT                Elections are part and parcel of  democracy. Once elections are over, common  citizens  can not do much to influence day to day functioning of the government. They have  to  wait till the next  election to be able to do something about it. Money spent for political campaigning  is  a  very powerful  factor in determining the outcome of election.  A factor  which is paid less  attention is "How many  people come out to vote". Most elections in U.S.  are decided by a  small margin, i.e., based on the  difference of a relatively small percentage  of votes, less  than  5%. In this case, enthusiasm of the ground workers of any party in  bringing out its...

                                        THE SECOND AMENDMENT                                     (CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.)                                "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,                   the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."                  For 218 years, judges concluded that the amendment authorised states to form  militia,  what we now call national guard. Then in 2008, the U.S Supreme Court upended two centuries of precedent. In the case of District of Columbia vs. Heller, the majority opinion written by Antonin Sc...