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Federalism and marijuana policy in California
A battle between the town of Isleton, California and federal prosecutors over medicinal marijuana cultivation perfectly illustrates the stakes involved in the Tenth Amendment debate. Earlier this mont ...
17 May, 2011
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4 min read
Rand Paul offers Tea Party alternative to GOP's ten-year budget plan
Today, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will be unveiling the establishment GOP's ten-year plan to make $6 trillion in spending cuts. Critics are already calling the proposal "radical," but Senator Ran ...
05 Apr, 2011
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3 min read
The Tea Party Goes to Washington
Book review: The Tea Party Goes to Washington by Rand Paul with Jack HunterIn the early days of Rand Paul's campaign, back when it was just an exploratory committee, there was only Rand and his campai ...
26 Mar, 2011
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3 min read
Ron Paul's Liberty PAC raises over $700K in one day
"The revolution is alive and well." That's what The Politico reporter Andy Barr wrote this Tuesday in his article summarizing the extraordinary fundraising feat Congressman Ron Paul's supporters pulle ...
26 Feb, 2011
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3 min read
Independents gather for national conference in New York City
On Saturday, hundreds of Independents from across the country gathered in New York City for the CUIP’s National Conference of Independents entitled, “Can Independents Reform America?” The con ...
16 Feb, 2011
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5 min read
Tea Party foreign policy begins to take shape
It appears as if a Tea Party foreign policy is starting to emerge. In 2009, a resurgent anti-tax/anti-bailout protest movement swept through cities across the United States, pulling together a broad c ...
05 Feb, 2011
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3 min read
Dollar inflation may have been catalyst in Egypt's revolution
With events still in motion, analysts are scrambling to identify and understand the causes behind the wave of protests and revolutionary movements sweeping through the Arab world. U.S. dollar inflatio ...
01 Feb, 2011
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3 min read
Rand Paul, Tea Party Senator, gets serious about tackling the debt
America is getting its first glimpse of Tea Party principles in action. Kentucky's newly-seated Junior Senator, Rand Paul, who kicked off his general election campaign by saying "I have a message from ...
29 Jan, 2011
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3 min read
Tea Party eyes the cost of war in Afghanistan
On the campaign trail in red-state Kentucky, Tea Party candidate Rand Paul would often say in his stump speech that if Americans were serious about cutting the exploding national deficit, then no prog ...
15 Jan, 2011
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2 min read
2010: the Year of the Tea Party
Looking back on 2010, we'll all remember what a strange year it was. But while replete with iPads, vuvuzelas, Lady Gaga outfits, earthquakes, treacherous winter storms, Old Spice commercials, Ta ...
28 Dec, 2010
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2 min read