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It’s a cat-and-mouse game, and the mouse is still winning. In spite of the best efforts of our Border Patrol agents, drugs and humans keep coming across our border with Mexico. I recently returned from my seventh trip to the border. Our Border Patrol agents are trying to do their [...]
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California Democrats and Republicans may agree to raise the state's gas tax in order to address the $59 billion the state needs for roadway maintenance.
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JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: All right. Well, let me move on to Rand Paul, SE. We saw him lead this battle. He -- again, he wouldn't allow the PATRIOT Act to be extended for a single day. He held the line.
SE CUPP, CNN COMMENTATOR: Yeah. Well, look this is a -- this is I think a necessary debate to have. And I remember a time when Democrats were having this debate, when Democrats had problems with the PATRIOT Act.
KARL: Well, they still do. Right now the Democrats are standing with Rand Paul on this.
CUPP: No -- they are, but the argument really is on the right between moderates on the right and people like Rand Paul. And I remember when this used to be a liberal issue over civil liberties and drone strikes and privacy. And now really it's Rand Paul and Republicans having this debate. And it should not be just ushered through and reauthorized. We should be talking about it. It's serious stuff that matters to a lot of Americans.
KARL: Congressman, you stand with Rand on this, don't you?
REP. KEITH ELLISON, (D-MN): I have to respectfully disagree with SE on this, because I think there's a lot of folks on the liberal left end of the party who definitely think that section 215, this bulk collection, probably should expire, that it hasn't had much value, and it is incredibly intrusive for Americans collecting everybody's phone information.
I think that it is absolutely the case that there is a bipartisan agreement that the PATRIOT Act went too far and certain provisions of it should be -- should expire.
KARL: Did you find yourself kind of quietly cheering Rand Paul as he went on for 10 hours?
ELLISON: Let me tell you, I'm working with Rand Paul on civil forfeiture reform, on the reset act to look at drug sentencing laws. He agrees that we should get rid of mandatory minimum sentencing. I think he's right about that. And I've been proud to stand with him on press conferences talking about these very issues.
Why? Because at the end of the day for me it's about trying to do the best we can by our constitution and the American people. We might cut the cake differently on taxes policy, but on these basic, core issues of freedom we agree.
BILL KRISTOL, WEEKLY STANDARD: But Keith doesn't stand with Rand, that's not fair to Keith, Rand stands with Keith.
I mean that seriously. They had these positions first. Rand Paul has now decided he wants to be a liberal Democrat undercut necessary intelligence collection, weaken the police officers and our intelligence services. And Rand Paul thinks that's going to sell in a Republican primary. I think he's deeply misguided about that. But I guess he sincerely believes it. And he's welcome to make the case. But I...
KARL: It certainly stands out. I mean...
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Covering Politics, History, and Culture in the Greatest Nation on Earth .
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A case of alleged animal abuse has led to debate about whether sheep can comprehend human speech.
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Dick Woods and Warren Farrell discuss the Boy Crisis and the importance of bringing the issues facing men, like suicide and alienation from family life, into...
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Manhattan’s swanky Standard hotel has issued an apology after a Navy officer wearing her iconic white uniform was turned away.
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Turkish preacher Mucahid Cihad Han made the astonishing claim that those who masturbate will find their hands pregnant and be forced to raise the offspring in the afterlife.
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Small donors need tax breaks more than super wealthy ones, and yet we continue to subsidize the latter. Time for right and left to team up and end this madness.
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Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments had given millions to the Clinton Foundation.
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A federal appeals court upheld an injunction against President Obama’s new deportation in a ruling Tuesday that marks the second major legal setback for an administration that had insisted its actions were legal.
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About 300 of Hillary Clinton’s emails are in the public record, but questions remain
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Rand Paul said today that he believes Obama is using an executive order to collection information like text messages, credit card information, emails, that are not included under the Patriot Act. W...
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Supporters of the NSA’s large scale spying on the American people claim the program has made our country safer. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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Tamara Colbert, Texas State Director, Convention of State Project testifying before Texas Senate Committee.
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Join the TAC - you are the backbone of our work! http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members Some people want you to believe that the "General Welfare clause" of...
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Warning from state-run China newspaper as Beijing reveals plans for development of disputed South China Sea islands
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Murders are way up so far this year in Manhattan, The Post has learned. Sixteen people were killed around the borough between the first of the year and Sunday. Over the same period last year, the f...
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Abandon traditional values in the face of pressure from the Rainbow Mafia?
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It's down to the wire in Louisiana! Here's the situation and how you can help.
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GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is getting endorsements from fellow Texas Congressmen.
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A look at Hedy Lamarr and her "Frequency Hopping" technology.
