Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people – real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
BOB BARRAfter all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe.
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Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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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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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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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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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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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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I’m pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That’s a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
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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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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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Going to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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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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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
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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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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting ‘experts’ that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
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