IRISH VOTERS REJECTED THE E.U. TREATY: Richard North has some thoughts. “Already, the European Commission president has declared that the treaty is still ‘alive,’ even though it is technically dead. However, there will be no overt attempt to make the Irish vote again, although the project will sail on.”

UPDATE: Dave Kopel: How the Irish saved civilization, again. “Treaty proponents lamented that Ireland, with only 1% of the EU population, could derail a 27-nation treaty. But the very fact that only 1% of the EU’s population was allowed to vote on a treaty which would massively reduce national sovereignty and democratic accountability was itself an illustration of the enormous ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU in general, and the Lisbon Treaty in particular. According to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the Lisbon Treaty would be defeated in every EU nation if referenda were allowed.”