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.
BOB BARRIt is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
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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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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
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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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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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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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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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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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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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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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