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Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.

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Bob Barr
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 5
Former United States Representative
Journalist
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Writer
Iowa City
Iowa
Robert Laurence Barr
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Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
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Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.
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The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.
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It's not a gun control problem it's a cultural control problem.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
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MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
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