The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
BOB BARRThe 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 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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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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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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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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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There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
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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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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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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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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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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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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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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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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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