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Will the U.S. Supreme Court protect small raisin growers from the grasping hand of the federal government? On Wednesday, the attorney for California raisin growers Marvin and Laura Horne argued before the Court that the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by taking some of his clients’ raisin crop without…

Why did conservative Marsha Blackburn triumph in the Tennessee Senate race, and why did incumbent Rep. Dave Brat struggle in his race for a third term in the House? Tuesday night’s results made clear that Republicans would retain the Senate, but lose the House, and we’re here to examine what happened. Rachel del Guidice joins…

President Joe Biden may have canceled the 1776 Commission, but that doesn’t mean that the commission itself cannot meet outside of the federal government. It is a shame that the president does not want a conversation about the principles of equality and liberty that animate our national life, but a lot of Americans still do….

Three years ago I wrote about what a spine-tingling feeling it was to attend a recreation of Patrick Henry’s fiery “Give me liberty, or give me death” speech in the place where he actually gave it: St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. St. John’s, built in 1741 on a high hill with a grand…

As South Carolina’s Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, the new chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, begins his task, it is worth recalling a lesson from Watergate. Specifically, let’s remember the creation of what became known as the Senate Watergate Committee — and how the Senate Republicans of 1973 lost a fight that literally…