Patriot Act

  • The Inconvenient Ideal

    Although an amendment in the House this past July to defund one of the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance programs fell short by 7 votes, the coalescence of ideologically-dissimilar representatives who voted for it marked a watershed moment in our current dialogue on citizen rights. The amendment in question sought to rein in the N.S.A’s

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  • It is fascinating to think, if James Madison, the putative father of the United States Constitution, were to be alive in these turbulent times, would he still have a head full of hair.  Or, overwhelmed with exasperation and helplessness, he is on his way to pulling out the very last strand. It’s been a decade

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