I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
From a Congressional committee hearing today about technology in the Court system:
Justice Scalia: “I don’t know even what it is . . . I’ve heard it talked about”
Justice Breyer: “remember when they had that disturbance in Iran . . . there were some Twitters as I call them . . . but there were people [...]
Made by several of the most prominent libertarian scholars out there:
“I think Rand Paul is wrong about the Civil Rights Act,” libertarian Cato Institute scholar Brink Lindsey wrote in an e-mail. “As a general matter, people should be free to deal or not deal with others as they choose. And that means [...]
Oppose Obama ? You’re just like al Qaeda:
If it’s unacceptable to compare American politicians to a mass-murdering dictator, and I believe it is, then surely someone on the left will rise up and condemn Congressman Alan Grayson for comparing the President’s political opponents to the man who orchestrated the murder of 3,000 Americans, right ?
Ironically, it comes from Chris Matthews, who points out that Paul’s position, while unpopular, is principled in a manner that most politicians aren’t:
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In an earlier segment Matthews talked to The Washington Post’s David Weigel about the controversy:
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The logical contradictions in this statement from the spiritual leader of Tibet are almost too numerous too mention:
TIBETAN spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he’s a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to China, the communist country that exiled him.
“Still I am a Marxist,” the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, [...]
According to this report from a local Phoenix television station, the architect of Arizona’s immigration law has a new target in mind, and it’s one that would involve a clear effort to disregard the Constitution:
PHOENIX — E-mails to and from Ariz.state Sen. Russell Pearce reveal the immigration enforcement debate may not stop with SB 1070, [...]
I’m not sure that its going to completely end the media firestorm until something else happens to grab the attention of the talking heads, but Rand Paul made two statements today that should go a long way toward putting this Civil Rights Act hullabaloo behind him.
First, he spoke with Laura Ingraham this morning and said [...]
The first post-primary poll in Pennsylvania shows that the race between Joe Sestak and Pat Toomey is a statistical dead heat:
Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak’s victory over longtime Senator Arlen Specter for his party’s nomination Tuesday has given him a bounce in support in Pennsylvania’s general election for U.S. Senate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide [...]
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