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(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 doesn't line up with all of what our party stands for - on national security, social values, the economy and the role of government in society. His message won't ultimately lead us to be a more successful party." It sure sounds like Santorum is saying that the Republicans need to be the party of big go

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 impending recession, a government that had taken us to endless wars on false pretenses, and an unprecedented expansion of government under eight years of “conservative” leadership, the tea party began as a fundraising rally cry for a then relatively unknown dark horse candidate, Representative Ron Pau

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 resigned his seat immediately. With a resignation so late in his term and hoping to save the cost of a replacement election on another date, this created an unusual scenario: a special election and general election on the same day. Thomas Massie, the judge-executive of Lewis County and the winner of the M

(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 fiscal cliff, the president has proposed twenty-three executive orders, a practice he criticized while a U.S. Senator, to address gun policy in the event Congress does not pass adequate legislation. On the other side, Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul declared on TV that the president does not have

Image: Salon.com Ron 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 no doubt made his mark on American politics. To the armchair pundit, it may appear the longtime maverick ruffled a few feathers in office, but ultimately his movement's time in the spotlight faded. Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. Even Dr. Paul stated in his farewell address to Cong

(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 Patriot Act and its inclusion and extension of the Cold War-era FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, FISA allowed electronic surveillance of individuals located inside the U.S. who were suspected of espionage. According to the law, t

Another year has passed and a handful of notable media misreports along with it. One of the most prestigious journalists was caught plagiarizing another journalist’s work this year as well as one reporter's serious lack of fact-checking regarding the Aurora shooting. Perhaps the most heinous of media misreports this year was not a single event at all but the consistently uncritical examination of the 2012 election process. This list of 5 media fails of 2012 reviews the more memorable media miss

Credit: fitsnews.com Already mentioned as a 2016 presidential hopeful, Kentucky US Senator Rand Paul is planning a trip to Israel and Jordan. According to the UK Telegraph's Tim Stanley, Senator Paul is also preparing to give a foreign policy address in the near future. The trip and speech may suggest a few things. The most obvious is that Paul is seriously thinking about a presidential run and the trip to Israel is almost obligatory when the strongest base of support for his party comes from

(Credit: Washington Times) Barely a few weeks after the conclusion of the 2012 presidential election, there is already much speculation about the 2016 elections. Kentucky US Senator Rand Paul has indicated some interest and former Florida governor Jeb Bush's name has been floated, most notably by his son. Just prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad announced his interest in eliminating one of the first events of the presidential election season: The Ames Straw Poll. He

(Credit: Gage Skidmore) In an interview with ABC News, Kentucky US Senator Rand Paul confessed he is considering a presidential run in 2016: "I want to be part of the national debate. I think it's a little too soon to talk about who's going to run, who's not going to run. . . . Am I interested in thinking about that? Yes. . . . I'm not going to deny I'm interested." It's a little wishy-washy, but neither is it surprising - we were hearing names of potential candidates as soon as Ohio was call