The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
BOB BARRGoing 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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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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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Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.
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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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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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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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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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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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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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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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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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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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