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You Can See Why There Are More People Wanting To Come From Economically-distressed Areas, And They Can't All Come To America. So It Gets Into The Valid, Legitimate Debate Over Immigration As To How Do We Choose. Do We Have A Diversity Lottery And Take People From Everywhere, Do We Base It More On Merit?

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You Can See Why There Are More People Wanting To Come From Economically-distressed Areas, And They Can't All Come To America. So It Gets Into The Valid, Legitimate Debate Over Immigration As To How Do We Choose. Do We Have A Diversity Lottery And Take People From Everywhere, Do We Base It More On Merit?

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The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over!

Fourth Amendment

2007 Was A Long Time Ago, And Events Do Change Over Long Periods Of Time.

We Live In A World, A Medieval Type Of World, Where Someone Can Accuse You - Through Gossip And Hearsay, And All Of A Sudden You're Supposed To Respond To Specific Charges From People You Don't Know, Are Not Aware Of Who These People Are, And You're Supposed To Respond To Their Specific Allegations?

I'm Not In Favor Of Any Discrimination Of Any Form.

The President's Rattling The Saber And Beating The Drums May Have An Effect.

I Think We Can't Be Naive In Dealing With The Russians Or Dealing With The Syrians. But At The Same Time, I Think We Could Try To Encourage - And I Think This Is What Diplomacy Should Do - Encourage The Self-interests Of All Parties To Believe That It Is In Their Best Interest To Get Evil Actors Or Rogue Actors Such As Syria Or Iran, If You Try To Have Less Belligerent And Less Bellicose Behavior.

President Obama Said, Oh, We Want To Make Insurance Perfect For People, But He Added All These Regulatory Mandates, Made It Too Expensive. Young, Healthy People Didn't Buy It, And The People Remaining In The Insurance Pool Were Sicker And Sicker. That's The Adverse Selection And The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. And So Really We Do Need To Discuss The Intricacies Of What Worked And What Didn't Work In Obamacare. And I Think The Better Way To Do This Is To Let Individuals Have The Freedom To Choose What Kind Of Insurance Is Best For Them. The Government Doesn't Always Know Best.

This Flirtation With Isolationism In The Republican Party Is Over. It's Giving Way To A More Muscular Foreign Policy Than I've Been Advocating. But I'm Also Advocating Building Up Others. Build A Small Schoolhouse In Afghanistan To Help A Poor Young Girl Have A Say About Her Children Will Destroy The Ideology More Than A Bomb.

The President Wants More Tax Money In Washington. I Want More Money Left In The Communities, Particularly Poor Communities, Particularly Communities That Have High Unemployment.

I Think It's Fair To Point Out That There Is Bias In The Media On Both Sides, Both Right And Left. And That It's Very Hard To Find Objective News Because We Have Gotten, Particularly As You Watch Cable News, It's So Dominated By Opinion.

We Are More Polarized. And Some Of That Comes From The People And Some Of That Comes From The Media.

I Would Never Belong To Any Club That Excluded Anybody For Race.

The Question's Whether Or Not There's An American Interest In The Civil War [in Syria]. The Question Is Whether Or Not A Military Strike On [bashar] Assad Will Cause Him To Be Encouraged To Use More Weapons Or Discouraged. It's Easy Enough To Say - And The President [barack Obama] Says Though This Will Teach Him A Lesson - But His Military Strike Is Intended Not To Target Him Individually, Not To Bring About Regime Change.

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

I Think The Problem With John Bolton Is He Disagrees With President Trump's Foreign Policy. He Would Be Closer To John Mccain's Foreign Policy. John Bolton Still Believes The Iraq War Was A Good Idea. He Still Believes That Regime Change Is A Good Idea. He Still Believes That Nation-building Is A Good Idea.

There's A Sense Of Urgency That The President Does Not Possess, That There Is A 9/11 In The Making.

Sense Of Urgency

If You're White And You're Rich In The Usa, If You Get Busted For Drugs, You Get A Good Attorney, And You In All Likelihood Serve No Time. But If You're Poor, Black, Hispanic, Or Poor And White For That Matter, You Can Get Put In Jail.

I'm A Reagan Conservative. Reagan Did Negotiate With The Soviets. But You Have To Negotiate From A Position Of Strength.

I Think We Can All Agree [bashar] Assad Is A Bad And Evil Actor, But I'm Not So Sure That We Want The Islamic Rebels To Be In Charge Of Syria Either.

I Think We Defeat Terrorism By Showing Them That We Do Not Fear Them.

On The Gang Of Eight Bill, There Was No Provisions Really For Extra Scrutiny Or Safety For Refugees. At The Time The Bill Came Up, Two Iraqi Refugees Came To My Home Town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their Fingerprints Were On A Bomb From Iraq. They Were In The Database, But We Didn't Pick Them Up.

, I'm Going To Reserve Judgment On [rex] Tillerson. But I'll Ask Him The Same Question I've Asked The Others: Do You Understand The Historic Lesson That The Iraq War Was A Failure, A Strategic Mistake, That's What Donald Trump Says.

My Belief Has Always Been That National Defense Is The Most Important Thing We Do, But We Shouldn't Borrow To Pay For It.

You Can Not Be A Conservative If You're Going To Keep Promoting New Programs That You're Not Going To Pay For.

Fear & Complacency Allow Power To Accumulate & Liberty & Privacy To Suffer

We Don't Need Bigger Government. We Need To Shrink The Size Of Government.

I Would Argue That The Objective Evidence Shows That Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans.

African American

The Republican Party's History Is Rich And Chock Full Of Emancipation And Black History.

I Worry That The Senate Is Working To Consider A Series Of Little-noticed Provisions In Comprehensive Immigration Reform That May Provide A Pathway To A National Id Card For All Individuals Present In The United States - Citizens And Noncitizens.

If Senator Rubio Were Doing His Job And In Congress More, He Might Know That The Program 'phone Records Of A Potential Terrorist Cause' Continues. It's Been Ongoing For The Last Six Months. So The Paris Tragedy, This Tragedy Happened While We Were Still Doing Bulk Collection, All Bulk Collection. Also In France, They Have A Program A Thousand-fold More Invasive, Collecting All Of The Data Of All Of The French.

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