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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.

Bob Barr

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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Country Goal Out Terrorist
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
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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Liberty Long Regulation Sector Silence
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
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
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 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
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 Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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Charting Course Hurt Party Tea
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
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
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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Defense Firearms Playing Themselves
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Business Community Party Philosophy School
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 not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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Memories Mind Real
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
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
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
I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.
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Government Inflation People Thinking Treated
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

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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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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