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Showing posts with label Senate. Show all posts

So Far, Rand Paul Is Winning His Fight: Senate Rejects USA Freedom Act & Rejects Extending NSA Collection Authority

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by Scott Shackford.   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was right. The Senate did not have enough votes to pass the USA Freed...

Michael Zennie: Hillary Mocked By Rand Paul After Almost Every Democrat She Campaigned With LOST In Midterms

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Hillary's inconvenient truth.         Tuesday night's victory for the Republicans wasn't just a blow to President Barack Obama...

With a Big GOP Wave, Americans Wisely Voted for Gridlock

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by J.D. Tuccille.     On election night, TV talking heads watching the Republican wave/surge/tidal flow across the country earnestly looke...

Voting Republican Is The Smart Choice For Libertarians

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by Grover Norquist.       You only have one vote. How best to use it to advance liberty? A libertarian preparing to vote in a House or Sen...

VIDEO: Senate Filibuster Nuclear Option Remix

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More proof that power corrupts.

Phil Gramm Ignores Fair Tax, Offers Plan For GOP Decline

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by Louis Woodhill.     The July 10 edition of The Wall Street Journal contained an op-ed by former Texas Senator Phil Gramm entitled, “...

Washington Times: A Good Day For The 2nd Amendment

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Common sense prevails in Senate!      The president raged. The mayor of New York frothed. Joe Biden cried. But at the end of the day, comm...

Charles C. W. Cooke: Repeal the 17th Amendment!

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Re-empower the states.  In our grubby, unhelpful political lexicon, certain words exist solely to end conversations. The most prominent su...

The Government Can Still Black Bag Any American

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by Travis Holte.  The Senate passed the much ballyhooed Feinstein-Lee amendment last night, which supposedly partially nullifies the pro...

Senators Join Suit Over Obama's Constitutional Powers

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by Stephen Dinan.  Republican senators on Wednesday joined a lawsuit arguing President Obama violated the Constitution when he used his ...

Some In GOP Argue For Repeal Of 17th Amendment

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The way to return to states' rights.   A Senate candidate's comment about repealing the 17th Amendment has some people thumbing thro...

VIDEO: Bath Salts, Naked Zombie Cannibals & Senators

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It is clear which of the three do society the most damage.

Michael G Franc: Is The Constitution A Republican Plot?

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Harry Reid's Senate seems to think so.     It’s one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand provisions in the Constitution. And Harry Rei...

Josh Peterson: Democrats To Continue Internet Assault

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A new cyber bill emerges.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will...