WASHINGTON — Wherever they are I hope the authors of our Constitution are pondering the spectacle now bedazzling Capitol Hill. In the admirable governing document that the Founding Fathers fashioned they made the president "Commander-in Chief" of our military. Yet, according to the novel reading of the newly elected Democratic majority, the Founding Fathers denied the president the instrumentalities to be commander-in-chief. For more than two centuries, through wars large and ...

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