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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.

Bob Barr

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
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
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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Clouds Government Office Omnipresent Strom
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
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
The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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Charting Course Hurt Party Tea
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
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
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
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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After Case Either Increase Matters Proponents
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Backbone High Oversight Time
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
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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Day Every Government Local Office Oval Stories
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
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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Conservatives Government Party Reason Vote
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

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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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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