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As the latest and longest government shutdown enters its denouement, Congress will be left to tally the costs and repair the damage. One thing to be thankful for: The filibuster, the procedural oddity ...

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"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison (1751-1836 ...

As the latest and longest government shutdown enters its denouement, Congress will be left to tally the costs and repair the damage. One thing to be thankful for: The filibuster, the procedural oddity ...

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Writing under the pseudonym Cato, an anti-Federalist thought to be the then-New York governor George Clinton warned against ...

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