It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
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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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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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The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don’t let up. If you’re always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong.
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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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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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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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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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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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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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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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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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