How Americans Resisted Tyranny And Won
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Very few Americans will recall that last month commemorated the 246
th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, an event that transformed not just one nation but an entire world’s concept of personal rights.
The British had been moving steadily to reduce both the private and community rights of their American dominion. The colonists, separated by time and distance from London, had grown accustomed not only to governing themselves, but to the practice of freedoms considerably greater than those in effect anyplace else across the globe. It was becoming increasingly apparent that their liberties were being dismantled. To protect themselves from the escalating abuse, the colonists took steps to protect their liberties.
Illustration by Barry Blitt.
When President Joe Biden finally took the oath of office on January 20, he inherited not merely the White House, the nuclear codes, and the reins to the most powerful government on earth, but also a mess.1
The fact of that mess wasn’t altogether unusual. It’s become something of a trend in recent decades for Republicans, who don’t think government can work, to spend their years in power breaking it in order to fulfill their own prophecy; it then falls to Democrats to spend their years in power fixing what Republicans destroyed.2
But Biden’s mess is somewhat bigger than the messes inherited by his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, after other disastrous Republican administrations. The enhanced difficulty stems in part from the Covid-19 pandemic and the multiple crises it has spawned, from the enduring spread of the virus to the near-collapse of the economy. But those are fires that the Biden administration, alongside D
Thomas is a senior legal fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Jonathan Ernst / Pool / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Senate rules require a supermajority to end debate before a simple majority can pass a bill. That gives the minority more influence and encourages deliberation.
Today, Democrats are threatening to abolish the legislative filibuster so they can pass whatever legislation they want and ignore the minority altogether.
Has power so corrupted Senate Democrats that they will simply abandon all of what they themselves proclaimed only a few years ago?
File photo of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (2010).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced that the recently-signed American Rescue Plan includes $480,249,023 that will guide Upstate New York’s pandemic-battered airports and transit systems to lift off.
Specifically, Upstate airports will receive $84,410,140, and Upstate transit systems will receive $395,838,883 of the total amount.
Schumer said that as the COVID crisis extends beyond what was initially estimated, impacting the air travel industry and public transportation systems for months on end, the federal funding allocated for them in the American Rescue Plan will help transportation systems keep their wheels turning while New York recovers from the pandemic and returns to ‘normal’.
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