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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.

Bob Barr

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
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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Already Conservatives Government Keys Party
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
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
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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Abuse Problem Voting
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 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
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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Country Goal Out Terrorist
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
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 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
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
The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don’t let up. If you’re always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong.
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Attacking Democrat Expansion Misguided Republica Wrong
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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Country Influence Loss Main World
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
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
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
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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Amorous Fall Government Sky Spreading
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Backbone High Oversight Time
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
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
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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Defense Firearms Playing Themselves
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
The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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Down Freedom Safer World
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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Beautiful Country Gun
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
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

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