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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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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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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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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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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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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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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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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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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 backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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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 goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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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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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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