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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.

Bob Barr

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
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
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
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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Office President Records Transparent
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
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
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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Government Home Ironic Surveillance
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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Attaching Country Decision Distracting Enabling Trying
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
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
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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Assume Citizen Country Movement Something Somewhere
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
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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Marijuana Medicine Pain Whatsoever
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Backbone High Oversight Time
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
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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Country Government Long

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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