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Compassionate Conservatism, No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part DTwo Bush-era laws grew the federal role in schools and in senior health care. Here is how each passed, what hawks said, and what the movement learned.The 2011 debt-limit fight that produced real spending capsHouse Republicans elected in 2010 demanded cuts for a debt-limit increase and got the Budget Control Act of 2011. Here is the record and a fair verdict.FISA, Section 702 and the Fourth Amendment, What the Law AllowsRepublicans split on surveillance with a real principle on each side. Here is what the law allows, where the Fourth Amendment pushes back, and where I land.Barry Goldwater lost 44 states and won the next generation of conservativesGoldwater's 1964 landslide defeat built the movement that elected Reagan sixteen years later. Ideas can outlast an election, and principle has a price.Congress Can Only Do What the Constitution Lists and Madison Said SoArticle I, Section 8 is a list, and a list only means something if it has an end. Here is the argument, the rival view, and how to check any law yourself.