“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” John Adams, March 6, 1789 Has our two-party system outlived its usefulness? The other day, an immigration group gave their initial report card on Republicans who have announced their intentions to run for President of the United States. Their bottom line was that none of the Republican candidates scored higher than fair-to-poor as
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USBC Posts Tagged ‘Tea Party’
Sound Off, Monday, May 23, 2011
May 23rd, 2011
Patriot Act Stopped … for Now
February 9th, 2011
A few freshmen Congressmen, including a handful of Tea Party candidates, joined with a number of Republicans and a lot of Democrats to defeat an attempt to rubber stamp an extension of the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act, legislation drafted in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack on America, was designed to give our government enhanced ability to spy on people they considered a terrorist threat. The Act allowed the government to invade America’s privacy in ways that had previously been illegal, such as roving wiretaps without strong probable cause or even requiring a judge’s consent. Those were desperate
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