History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
BOB BARRThe seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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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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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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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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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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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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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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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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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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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MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
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