Filibuster
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Reuters Bad News, Good Headline
The importance of one verb and one noun
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Yuri Gripas/Reuters Friday Update: Filibuster, Surveillance State, Political Macho, and Other Hardy Perennials
A word we should use more frequently ("filibuster"), and one we should use less ("tough")
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In Honor of the Olympics, Let's Talk Filibuster
What's the word I was looking for—the one that starts with "F" and applies when a bill gets 59 votes? Oh, yes, now it comes back to me: "Fail."
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Reuters Just Use the Damned Word: Filibuster
Defining obstructionism down
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Reuters Sunday Shutdown Reader: Harold Varmus on Self-Destruction in the Sciences
"Now that the shutdown is nearing the end of its second week, further consequences are coming into view ..."
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Reuters I Hope This Is Our Final Shutdown Reader: Map, Airplanes, ChiComs
What 32 committed people, and one timorous speaker, can do to everyone else
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Creative Commons The Monday-Morning Shutdown Mailbag: Crossing the Rubicon
Applying, and mis-applying, history to our current predicament
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Reuters Your Sunday Shutdown Reader #2
Only one thing is harder than agreeing on blame for the current morass. That is imagining a way out.
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Reuters Your Sunday Shutdown Reader #1: In Defense of Boehner
"How many times do we have to refight the Civil War?"
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Coast Guard Today's Shutdown Bonus: Why It's Harder for the Coast Guard to Find People Lost at Sea
Studies in the self-lobotomization of a modern system
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Public Domain The Two Basic Facts That Should Be in Every Shutdown Story
If Congress could vote on a "clean" bill, it would end the shutdown tonight. So why isn't it allowed to vote?
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False Equivalence Watch: A Keeper From the L.A. Times
One proposal got 40 votes; another got 51; both of them "failed."
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Avoiding False Equivalence: The NYT Shows Us How
See, it's not that hard just to say "filibuster"!
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California's New 'Problem': Jerry Brown on the Sudden Surplus, and the Filibuster
The Senate's abuse of the filibuster "could end America's ability to govern itself." And other interview outtakes.
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False Equivalence: We Have a New Champ
Senators bravely overcome a filibuster -- so that they can filibuster a bill.
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For the Love of God, Just Call It a Filibuster
The political press doesn't like to "take sides." But it is enabling a destructive partisan strategy.
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George Orwell on the Filibuster
"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
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Forgotten War, Forgotten Deaths
The war that goes on, and that most Americans can ignore
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Good for Rand Paul
A "real" filibuster illustrates what is wrong with all the fake ones.
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False Equivalence: It's Worse Than We Think
The mainstream media struggle to find their footing in this new landscape.
