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Rights Mean You Have A Right To Your Life. You Have A Right To Your Liberty, And You Should Have A Right To Keep The Fruits Of Your Labor....i, In A Way, Don’t Like To Use Those Terms: Gay Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights, Religious Rights. There’s Only One Type Of Right. It’s The Right To Your Liberty.

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I Wouldn't Vote Against Getting Rid Of The Jim Crow Laws.

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There Is No Reason, In A Free Society, That Farmers Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Hemp. Hemp Is A Good Product.

There Is Only One Kind Of Freedom And That's Individual Liberty. Our Lives Come From Our Creator And Our Liberty Comes From Our Creator. It Has Nothing To Do With Government Granting It.

The Boston Bombing Provided The Opportunity For The Government To Turn What Should Have Been A Police Investigation Into A Military-style Occupation Of An American City. This Unprecedented Move Should Frighten Us As Much Or More Than The Attack Itself.

The Most Basic Principle To Being A Free American Is The Notion That We As Individuals Are Responsible For Our Own Lives And Decisions

I Hope Every Person Who Reads Or Hears This Will Take The Time To Go Back And Read The Declaration Of Independence. Only By Recapturing The Spirit Of Independence Can We Ensure Our Government Never Resembles The One From Which The American States Declared Their Separation.

No Single Person, Including The President Of The United States, Should Ever Be Given The Power To Make A Medical Decision For Potentially Millions Of Americans. Freedom Over One's Physical Person Is The Most Basic Freedom Of All, And People In A Free Society Should Be Sovereign Over Their Own Bodies. When We Give Government The Power To Make Medical Decisions For Us, We In Essence Accept That The State Owns Our Bodies.

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If You Have Ever Been Robbed By A Black Teen-aged Male, You Know How Unbelievably Fleet-footed They Can Be.

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Prohibiting Guns On Campus Made The Virginia Tech Students Less Safe, Not More.

As An O.b. Doctor Of Thirty Years, And Having Delivered 4,000 Babies, I Can Assure You Life Begins At Conception.

I Never Voted To Spend One Penny Of Social Security Money.

We Need A Smaller And Elite Military, As [donald]rumsfeld Said - And Also A Smaller And Elite Foreign Policy.

The Government Does Not Need To Know More About What We Are Doing. We Need To Know More About What The Government Is Doing. We Should Be Thankful For Individuals Like Edward Snowden And Glenn Greenwald Who See Injustice Being Carried Out By Their Own Government And Speak Out, Despite The Risk. They Have Done A Great Service To The American People By Exposing The Truth About What Our Government Is Doing In Secret.

The Sad Thing Is, Our Foreign Policy Will Change Eventually, As Rome's Did, When All Budgetary And Monetary Tricks To Fund It Are Exhausted.

The Only Thing We Should Prohibit Is Violence.

Of Course I've Already Taken A Very Modest Position On The Monetary System, I Do Take The Position That We Should Just End The Fed.

We Don't Have The Freedom Of Speech To Talk About The Weather. We Have The First Amendment So We Can Say Some Very Controversial Things.

Freedom Of Speech

Let It Not Be Said That No One Cared, That No One Objected Once It’s Realized That Our Liberties And Wealth Are In Jeopardy.

I'm Not Against The Fbi Investigation In Doing A Proper Role, But I'm Against The Fbi Spying On People Like Martin Luther King. I'm Against The Cia Fighting Secret Wars And Overthrowing Government.

To Me, To Be A Conservative Means To Conserve The Good Parts Of America And To Conserve Our Constitution.

It's A Mistake To Think That Poor People Get The Benefit From The Welfare System. It's A Total Fraud. Most Welfare Go To The Rich Of This Country: The Military-industrial Complex, The Bankers, The Foreign Dictators, It's Totally Out Of Control.

When We Finally Decide That Drug Prohibition Has Been No More Successful Than Alcohol Prohibition, The Drug Dealers Will Disappear.

In A Free Society We're Supposed To Know The Truth. In A Society Where Truth Becomes Treason, Then We're In Big Trouble. And Now, People Who Are Revealing The Truth Are Getting Into Trouble For It.

If Iran Invaded Israel, It's Up To Congress To Declare War.

The Federal Government Cannot Maintain A Budget Surplus Any More Than An Alcoholic Can Leave A Fresh Bottle Of Whiskey Untouched In The Cupboard.

Cliches About Supporting The Troops Are Designed To Distract From Failed Policies, Policies Promoted By Powerful Special Interests That Benefit From War, Anything To Steer The Discussion Away From The Real Reasons The War In Iraq Will Not End Anytime Soon.

[political] Conventions Lend Themselves To Pandering, As Few Politicians Can Resist The Temptation To Tell A National Television Audience How Well They Will Run The Country If Elected. The Problem Is That Government Is Not Supposed To Run The Country - We're Supposed To Be Free.

Only About 5 Percent Of Blacks Have Sensible Political Opinions.

Political Opinions

I Lean Toward A Flat Tax. But I Want To Make It Real Flat, Like Zero.

It Would Be Virtually Impossible To Finance Wars Without Taxing The People, And The Welfare System Would Be Limited Because There Wouldn't Be Enough Money In The Bank To Sustain It As It Is, And That Would Help Prices Stay Under Control.

The Original American Patriots Were Those Individuals Brave Enough To Resist With Force The Oppressive Power Of King George... Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security.

To Condemn Free-market Capitalism Because Of Anything Going On Today Makes No Sense. There Is No Evidence That Capitalism Exists Today. We Are Deeply Involved In An Interventionist-planned Economy That Allows Major Benefits To Accrue To The Politically Connected Of Both Political Parties. One May Condemn The Fraud And The Current System, But It Must Be Called By Its Proper Names Keynesian Inflationism, Interventionism, And Corporatism.

Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies.

I Wish I Could Say I Was Shocked At The Reports The Nsa Is Secretly Spying On The Private Phone Calls Of Millions Of Verizon Customers. However, This Is A Predictable Result Of A Government That Continues To Erode Our Liberties While Promising Some Glimmering Hope Of Security.

Our Constitution, Which Was Intended To Limit Government Power And Abuse, Has Failed.

I Grew Up In Pittsburgh, Where You Couldn't Even See The Noon Sun In The Sky, And That Whole City Was Cleaned Up Without The Federal Government Needing To Be Involved. I Think We Would Have Been Much Better Served From The Start If People Would Have Better Understood The Principles Of Private Property.

Who's Married And Who Isn't Married. I Have My Standards But I Shouldn't Have To Impose My Standards On Others. Other People Have Their Standards And They Have No Right To Impose Their Marriage Standards On Me.

Reject The Phony Patients' Bill Of Rights....we Don't Have To Continue Down The Path Of Socialized Medical Care, Especially In America Where Free Markets Have Provided So Much For So Many.

The President And Other Government Officials Denounce School Violence, Yet Still Advocate For Endless Undeclared Wars Abroad And Easy Abortion At Home. U.s. Drone Strikes Kill Thousands, But Nobody In America Holds Vigils Or Devotes Much News Coverage To Those Victims, Many Of Which Are Children, Albeit, Of A Different Color.

As Long As We Live Beyond Our Means, We Are Destined To Live Beneath Our Means.

Stop Policing The World And We Can Get Rid Of Income Tax.

How Did We Win The Election In The Year 2000? We Talked About A Humble Foreign Policy: No Nation-building; Don't Police The World. That's Conservative, It's Republican, It's Pro-american - It Follows The Founding Fathers. And, Besides, It Follows The Constitution.

Sexually-transmitted Diseases Is Caused By Sexual Activity And Promiscuity It Spreads Diseases. That's Been Known, You Know, About 400 Or 500 Years, That Somehow These Diseases Are Spread. If Fault Comes With People Because Of Their Personal Behavior But It Isn't To Be Placed On A Burden On Other People, Innocent People, Why Should They Have To Pay For The Consequences?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

The Reality Is That Our Military Presence On Foreign Soil Is As Offensive To The People That Live There As Armed Chinese Troops Would Be If They Were Stationed In Texas. We Would Not Stand For It Here, But We Have Had A Globe-straddling Empire And A Very Intrusive Foreign Policy For Decades That Incites A Lot Of Hatred And Resentment Toward Us.

Right Now, Nobody Legalized Paper Money. Where Did That Come From.

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