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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.

Bob Barr

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
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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Office President Records Transparent
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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Day Every Government Local Office Oval Stories
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
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
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
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
Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.
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Erode Expansion Government
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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Defense Firearms Playing Themselves
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
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
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
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
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
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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Anywhere Country Crime Reputation Violent
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

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