Posts Tagged ‘Rand Paul’

Boston bombing: Why to expect bad fallout on two fronts
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
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April 24, 2013 By Chris Reed The fallout from the April 15 terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon continues. Initially, the primary reaction was tired partisan attempts to imply the fault was either somehow a) the president's fault because of his foreign policy or b) the Republicans' fault be...

Drones a litmus test on trust in government
Monday, March 18th, 2013
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March 18, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -– Don't you hate it when life starts to resemble one of those bleak, futuristic dystopian movies? I'm thinking of an almost unfathomable reality –- local and state governments are joining the feds in buying unmanned aerial vehicles -– drones ...

Rand Paul helps jumpstart GOP morale
Saturday, March 16th, 2013

March 16, 2013 CalWatchdog.com Editors NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. --- It’s no secret that Republicans in the Golden State have been dispirited by the last two election cycles where the GOP has been relegated to virtually no power in statewide politics.  Nationally 2012 was also a lackluster elect...

TSA Goons Assault Sen. Rand Paul
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
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John Seiler: The centralized tyranny in the United States has gone too far. It now is assaulting Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. After the TSA's microwave "scanners" broke down, Paul was ordered -- like a concentration camp inmate -- to undergo a full body pat-down. He refused. The last word is that the...

Boxer and DiFi Back Freedom
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

John Seiler: I don't often side with senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, Democrats from California. But they were on the right side of freedom on an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill. The Bill, as written, includes new language that would declare the United States itself a com...

So much for moderate Republicans
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
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John Seiler: A computer couldn't come up with a candidate more moderate Republican than Meg Whitman. And she's rich and willing to spend $160 million, too. Her computer-date running mate, Abel Maldonado, also was a poster-boy for Republican moderation. So was Mike Villines, the moderate Republica...