State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
BOB BARREvery day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
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The main international problem facing America is our lack of – our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues.
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I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
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There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
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Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.
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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
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At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
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The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.
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