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.
BOB BARROn taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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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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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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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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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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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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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.
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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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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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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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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe.
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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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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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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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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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