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09 Mar 2013

#StandwithRand

For almost 13 hours on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) led a filibuster on the Senate floor that called attention to the Obama administration’s refusal to share its case for why the president can target and kill U.S. citizens without oversight. Joined by about a dozen different colleagues throughout the event, Paul hammered home questions surrounding positions advanced by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan. The entire filibuster is viewable at C-SPAN’s website. H/T Reason TV

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07 Mar 2013

Strike One Against Drones

Before launching his historic filibuster against President Obama’s killer drones, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul explained why he believes the drone program shreds the US Constitution by violating its commitments to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Meanwhile, Charles Kauthammer describes Paul’s filibuster as “a stroke of political genius.”

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11 Feb 2013

Liberals’ License to Kill

Remember all those bedrock moral principles that liberal pundits cited to attack President George W. Bush? Now that Bush is out, and President Obama is in office, these same talking heads are singing a different tune. Lee Doren takes stock of the shifting sands, and asks the $64,000 question: Did these liberals actually hold any principles dear or did they just covet power?

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11 Feb 2013

Media Accused of Coverup

As news leaks about the US drone base in Saudi Arabia, now we’re learning that three American media outlets — The New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press — have long known about the base, but withheld information from the public at the request of the Obama Administration. If Nixon had asked these same outlets to suppress the news, do you think they would have complied? Why is it they only hop into bed with so-called progressives like Obama?

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28 Jan 2013

A Drone On Every Cul-De-Sac

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Secretary of State nominee John Kerry vowed to implement President Obama’s vision for the world. “What’s that? Like a chicken in every pot and an unmanned drone over every house,” wonders Ben Crystal in this week’s The Great Eight. He also shares his thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s anti-gun theatrics.

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08 Dec 2012

Vulture Drone Drops Into Sudan

An investigation has been launched by Khartoum officials after a suspect vulture was reportedly found in Sudan tagged with an Israeli GPS chip and a leg band labeled “Israel Nature Service” and “Hebrew University, Jerusalem.” Khartoum’s media claimed that the device was capable of taking photos and sending them back to Jewish state; but Israel’s National Parks Service dismissed the allegation, saying that both the band and the GPS chip were nothing more than standard migration trackers.

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22 Oct 2012

Rise of the Drones

Most people see drones as a controversial weapon prowling over foreign battlegrounds. But as America’s military campaigns wind down, these machines are coming home and set to change civilian lives forever.

“This is a powerful technology. No amount of hand-wringing is going to stop it,” says drone expert Peter Singer. Whether it’s a floating TV station streaming live to the web, the prying lens of the paparazzi, the police chasing a criminal or a government agency spying, small domestic drones are experiencing an exponential growth. “I wouldn’t cheat on your wife!,” laughs columnist Charles Krauthammer. But jokes aside, there are real fears over the “political, legal and ethical issues that play out with this,” argues Singer. ABC Australia reports.

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01 Aug 2012

Wonderful World of Drones

Christopher McDonald provides assurances that we have nothing to fear from unmanned drones. “A lot of people look at these modern marvels and see automated flying soulless death dealers that spy on all our private lives. But you can trust me when I say: ‘Those people are Communists.'” Coming from Shooter McGavin, that says a lot. H/T Funny or Die

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09 Jul 2012

Big Brother Democrats

Democrats in Wisconsin have crossed the line in their efforts to oust “Tea Party” Republican Congressman Reid Ribble.  For some time, the Democrats have hounded Rep. Ribble by sending out cameramen to record his every speech and public appearance. The video below is but one of many examples, as a Democratic operative packing a camera trails the Congressman each step of the way while he works a crowd at a job fair. But now these political paparazzi have upped the ante by bird-dogging Ribble as he shopped at a grocery store, and on June 18, by posting raw footage showing the exterior of his home.

What’s next for the Donkey Kongers? Aerial drone shots tracking Ribble’s movements? Secret web-cams aimed at urinals inside U.S. Capitol Building restrooms? The mind boggles, but it’s clear that these creepy surveillance tactics not only violate the bounds of decency, but represent a gross invasion of privacy, unbecoming any “reputable” political party in the United States. Read more about this case here: http://polipundit.com/?p=40187

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