Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
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Restore The Congress to Counter the President
Posted on March 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In 1989, the first year I arrived in Washington as a staffer to House Minority Leader Bob Michel, the Heritage Foundation released a tome...
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Our Own History To Live
Posted on March 3, 2015
It was a Speaker who pushed America into the War of 1812. Henry Clay, a hero to Mitch McConnell, ascended briskly to the gavel as a 34 year-old newly elected...
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AUMF
Posted on February 12, 2015
Congress used to declare war. Now it authorizes the use of military force. We used to go to war against countries. Now, we use military force against imaginary caliphates....
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Democracy Unbalanced
Posted on February 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Where is Robert Byrd, now that the Senate really needs him? The former long-serving senator from West Virginia was a stickler for congressional prerogatives....
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The Common Carrier
Posted on February 6, 2015
In English common law, a common carrier transports products or people from one place to another. In America, that evolved from products and people to include telephonic and radio communications....
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