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Bob Barr

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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Adequate Challenges Impossible Law
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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Aftermath Government Manufactured Real
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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Memories Mind Real
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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Believe Federal Government Ought People
A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don’t start falling off.
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Approval Fall Rating War
After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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Ability Borders Foundation National Protect Sovereignty
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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Experts Offspring Parents Special
The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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Government Growing Resistance
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Backbone High Oversight Time
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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Attacking Democrat Expansion Misguided Republica Wrong
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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Candidate Constitution Likelihood Office Parties
Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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Anywhere Country Crime Reputation Violent
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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Communicate Done Generations Government Topic
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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Erode Expansion Government
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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Country Occupation Supported War
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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Medicine Technology Yield
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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Country Goal Out Terrorist
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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Defense Firearms Playing Themselves
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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Cities Gun Investigate Nobody Towns
State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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Fundamental Human Law Rights Significant
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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Beautiful Country Gun
This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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Control Government Invention Magnificient Succumbing
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
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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Military Moving Serious Total Undertaking War
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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Accepting Order Requirements
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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Believe Country Philosophically Population Real
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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Cutting Moving Names

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