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IRS Targeting Conservative Groups May Douse Enforcement
credit: Real Clear PoliticsReleased by the Associated Press on Friday, an inspector general's report regarding the IRS revealed the agency had improperly targeted conservative-leaning groups that wer ...
13 May, 2013
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IRS Targeting Conservative Groups May Douse Enforcement
credit: Real Clear PoliticsReleased by the Associated Press on Friday, an inspector general's report regarding the IRS revealed the agency had improperly targeted conservative-leaning groups that wer ...
13 May, 2013
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2 min read
Sen. Rand Paul Suggests Gun-Running From Benghazi
Credit: Gage SkidmoreAfter a week of testimony in Congress about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last September, Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul suggested that the facility might ...
12 May, 2013
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Is It Time to Walk Away from Omelas?
They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I ...
02 May, 2013
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Rick Santorum Returns to Discredit Himself
(Credit: Gage Skidmore)We're not trying to turn IVN into the Rand Paul channel, but this comment about him from Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal bears comment:"Rand Paul's brand do ...
23 Apr, 2013
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Rand Paul's Filibuster: Re-Claiming his Father's Tea Party
The modern day tea party movement took shape in 2007. Yet, it is hardly a reflection of the anti-war, anti-deficit, pro-civil liberty message that propelled its early popularity.During a time of ...
07 Mar, 2013
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Kentucky US Rep. Thomas Massie Charts His Own Path
Congressman Geoff Davis, a Republican serving Kentucky's 4th congressional district, announced in 2011 that he was retiring from office at the end of his term, but in the summer of 2012, Davis resigne ...
20 Jan, 2013
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Rand Paul Nullification Proposal Emerges in Gun Debate
(Credit: Gage Skidmore)With a spate of shootings in recent months, there are calls for tighter gun control and President Obama has political capital to spend.Getting much of what he wanted with the f ...
19 Jan, 2013
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Ron Paul Retires From Congress; His Influence Still Abounds
Image: Salon.comRon Paul retired from Congress last week, yet his influence is only growing. Despite not winning the Republican Party's nomination for president, the 77-year-old resident of Texas has ...
09 Jan, 2013
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Senate Defeats Amendment Protecting Internet and Phone Privacy
(Credit: current.com)After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government's ability to identify and intercept national security threats became paramount. With this concern came the ...
29 Dec, 2012
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