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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.

Bob Barr

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
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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Aftermath Government Manufactured Real
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
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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Accepting Order Requirements
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
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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Cutting Moving Names
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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Government Home Ironic Surveillance
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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Office President Records Transparent
I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.
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Government Inflation People Thinking Treated
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
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Backbone High Oversight Time
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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Country Influence Loss Main World
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
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.
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Believe Country Philosophically Population Real
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
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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Down Freedom Safer World

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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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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