Ted Van Dyk has been active in national policy and politics since 1961, serving in the White House and State Department and as policy director of several Democratic presidential campaigns. He is auth
In the 1960s, the Senate required 67 votes to break a filibuster, not today's 60. Yet, the more emotional Civil Rights Act carried passed; the White House took a stronger hand in drafting it and worked with Republicans from the start.
The current argument about Starbucks' policy of allowing guns to be openly carried in its stores shows how the debate has gone from looking for reasonable regulations to the idea that there should be no controls on dangerous weapons.
