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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.

Bob Barr

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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Medicine Technology Yield
The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It’s a mainstream philosophy. It’s of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
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Business Community Party Philosophy School
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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Communicate Done Generations Government Topic
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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Military Moving Serious Total Undertaking War
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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Conservatives Government Party Reason Vote
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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Country Government Long
It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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After Case Either Increase Matters Proponents
I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.
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Candidate Constitution Likelihood Office Parties
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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Country Occupation Supported War
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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Already Conservatives Government Keys Party
Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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Anywhere Country Crime Reputation Violent
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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Memories Mind Real
A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don’t start falling off.
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Approval Fall Rating War
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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Clouds Government Office Omnipresent Strom
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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Adequate Challenges Impossible Law

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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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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