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.
BOB BARRNobody 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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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The main international problem facing America is our lack of – our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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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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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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