Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
Bob BarrIt is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
Bob BarrThe move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
Bob BarrOn taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
Bob BarrThe seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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