Bob Barr
Former Congressman from Georgia, 2008 Libertarian nominee for President, speaker and columnist.

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Bob Barr
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has become increasingly aggressive in expanding its responsibility from simply searching passengers to ensure no weapons or explosives are brought on board commercial aircraft...
Shawn
Shawn
Join facebook group "Americans against government waste" and spout off about idiot government officials pulling this kind of crap on all of us.
Mark
Mark
Why not give them armbands with one of the 108 symbols of Hindu deity Vishnu that represents the sun's rays, upon which all life depends. That's what Germany did prior to WWII.
Bob Barr
Americans inclined to support President Obama’s health care overhaul might want to first look at the so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation passed by the House of Representatives with the president’s support...
Cara
Cara
Nathan Isenhardt you're an idiot too. No other country gives a rats ass about emissions. China laughed at us when we went over there to talk to them about controlling emissions. It's the governments agenda to control every little thing and it's going to destroy the coal industry. We'll see how you like your heating bill next year my friend. GOD helps us! I'm so sick of stupid people! You're all brainwashed.
Cara
Cara
Exactly, Erica!
Bob Barr
It isn’t often that we can report here in the Barr Code, or anywhere else for that matter, that citizens advocating for privacy rights have won a round against the government — any government...
Terence
Terence
That's why I'm looking to move to that part of the country...it's the last great bastion of personal freedom...and it's just beautiful!
Chris
Chris
It sickens me that such a policy was ever implemented in the first place. A victory for personal freedom, yes, but one that never should have needed to be won in the first place.
Bob Barr
It was touch and go for NyQuil’s manufacturer, Procter& Gamble, yesterday while a panel of experts met to decide its fate...
Herb
Herb
Amen, Brothers, Amen!
Chris
Chris
So many shisters, too many to count
Bob Barr
The secret government “Terrorist Watch List,” reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way. This new addendum — also to be cloaked in secrecy — would empower the U.S...
Bob Barr
State governments (and the District of Columbia) desperate for ways to increase revenues, recently have discovered a new target — smokers who puchase cigarettes in other states, or from Indian reservations, that have lower tobacco taxes...
Bob Barr
Harold Koh,a former Clinton Administration official, who is a well-known anti-gun advocate and who supports international firearmscontrol efforts, is scheduled for a vote Wednesday in the Senate. If confirmed, Koh would become the State Department Legal Advisor...
Bob Barr
In early 1968, North Vietnam launched a series of military offensives across South Vietnam that became known as the Tet Offensive. Military experts agree that by the end of the offensive in April, the United States and South Vietnamese had beaten the North, which suffered significant casualties...
Neil
Neil
Someone last night showed a comparison between Obama's response to the Iranian unrest and Reagan's response to the uprising in Poland. Very interesting contrast, especially when you think of how Reagan voiced support without directly intervening and how effective this was. One of the very important differences was that Reagan clearly stated that ... Read Morethe U.S. would not do business with the Polish government if they continued to oppress their own people. Obama needs to do the same. By saying that he is willing to sit at the table with the oppressors, he is effectively supporting their legitimacy and not supporting the opposition. He needs to be clear and firm in his position and stop pandering.
Brandon
Brandon
"What we're doing is ensuring the Iranian people have the ability to speak, to have their voices heard, through maintenance of twitter, facebook, etc, and the promotion of various proxies to get around the internet crackdowns of the Iranian Gov't: Support without intervention."

You must take into account that the majority of Iranians do not have telephone access, let alone use twitter or facebook. Basing news off of what we see from a small minority of young Iranians who are lucky to have internet and who do not remember the First Gulf War or even further, the Iranian Revolution which removed the American backed Shah skews our view. Ahmadinejad does a better job of using these events to appeal towards the conservative, country-dwelling, or poor groups of Iranians. It really comes at no surprise that Ahmadinejad won. The controversy comes from a small minority of people who are already "Westernized" through facebook, twitter, etc...

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Bob Barr
The cost of federal regulations to American citizens, businesses and state and local governments has reached $1.17 trillion, according to a report just published by the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)...
Harry
Harry
I can't come to your house and take your stuff isn't "regulation." Regulation is "You can't make a home loan unless you complete this IRS form in triplicate, swear you're a U.S. citizen, and report any cash in excess of $10,000." Most regulations exist to protect existing entrenched industries. That's why they have lobbyists to lobby the ... Read Moreregulators others exist as ways of spying citizens (e.g., Know Your Customer Banking Regs.) Libertarians would reduce regulation to "you cannot take my stuff by force or by fraud."
David
David
Ole Turbo Tax Timmy is firing up the printing press. Ben's using our money to buy our own debt and the plunge protection team at Goldman Sachs is manipulating the stock market when necessary to keep the media talking about 'green shoots'.
Bob Barr
Temporarily stymied in its efforts to move a gun control agenda forward because of strong public backlash, the administration of President Barack Obama is shifting its regulatory focus to pocket knives. No kidding. In a little noted proposed regulatory decision issued in May by the U.S...
Bob Barr
Heads of state — from the time of Chinese military genius Sun Tzu in the fifth Century B.C., to our first commander-in-chief, George Washington, and many modern presidents — have understood the role good intelligence plays in achieving military and diplomatic success...
Jason
Jason
Hey, good one Pax! Let's try this one: you work as the Lead SW Architect for Cellfish Media correct? Isn't this the same company that scams people by "offering" a free IQ test then tricking them into a monthly billing to their cell phones? You are a parasite living off of cheating Americans out of their hard earned money, nice. If anyone is ... Read Moreinterested in Pax's employer, check out http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q5=cellfish&q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search%21
Jason
Jason
Oh yeah Pax, maybe next time you'll leave my mother out if it...
Bob Barr
Today, June 12, 2009, is the last day that full-power television broadcasters in the United States can broadcast in analog signals. By the end of the day, all stations will be broadcasting in digital only...
Bob Barr
I drive a Dodge Magnum, manufactured by Chrysler, and I therefore have a very personal interst in seeing that Chrysler continues as a viable, operating manufacturer of automobiles and parts...
Eric
Eric
Bob Barr 2012!
Gino
Gino
Bob Barr 2012!
Bob Barr
Well, my optimism was short-lived that the constitutionality of the forced bankruptcy of Chrysler (and, impliedly, GM), and of the use of taxpayer dollars to bail out the auto industry would finally be considered by the Supreme Court...
Bob Barr
Four months ago I was in Cairo, invited to address an international economic forum that was attended by government officials, diplomats and business leaders...
Carla
Carla
Thank you, Bob, for the update on this.
Terence
Terence
I can not believe all of the naivete on here!
Bob Barr
“Vision of Humanity,”an international organization dedicated to “global peace,” “inclusiveness,” “cooperation” and “social equity,” has just issued its 2009 “Global Peace Index.” The “index,” along with the description of the organization and its “analysis,” is...
Bob Barr
A number of important stories that otherwise likely would be receiving greater media attentionin recent days, have been largely crowded off the front pages of the news because of the stories swirling around the government’s takeover of General Motors, the heated verbal battle between President...
Bob Barr
The first days since the president announced Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court has clarified some things about the nominee, but left others still unclear. Hopefully the Senate will not succumb to President Obama’s pressure to confirm Sotomayor hastily...
Bob Barr
Bob Barr
So President Barack Obama has nominated a liberal woman judge to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter on the nation’s highest court. Clearly no surprise there...
Bob Barr
Even though the administration of President Obama has championed “change” as its hallmark, many of its domestic policy and funding programs reflect more a “continuation” of the big spending ways of his predecessor...
John
John
different puppet same strings
Darrell
Darrell
who is the real puppetmaster? im not a conspiracy theorist, but it seems like the president is just a face, and the same agenda is being followed.
Bob Barr
The manner in which grown men and women in the United States Congress are fretting over the possibility that some of the Guantanamo detainees may wind up being incarcerated in federal civilian and military prisons on the mainland, illustrates yet again how tight a grip FEAR has on public policy in...
Bob Barr
The Internet — arguably the most empowering and important innovation of the modern era — is in danger of being stifled by the heavy hand of government control. Legislation now pending in the U.S...
Bob Barr
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employs thousands of bureaucrats and spends billions of dollars annually in a supposed effort to ensure various food products, drugs and cosmetics are safe...
Jordain
Jordain
Yes! More people in Washington need to be saying this.
Bob Barr
In 2006, the Congress which was then still controlled by the Republican Party, passed legislation (then signed by President George W. Bush) that explictly restricted internet gambling...
Bob Barr
In the mid-1970s I was a young analyst with the CIA. A friend then serving undercover as the station chief in a European country was gunned down by terrorists. His assassination followed unauthorized disclosure of his CIA identity by people opposed to American intelligence activities...
Bob Barr
More than 7-1/2 years after Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing 33 passengers and seven crew members on September 11, 2001, the tragedy is claiming more victims — this time, at the hands of the U.S. government...
Bob Barr
The FBI’s own Inspector General has just concluded a comprehensive study of the massive “Terrorist Watch List” maintained by the Bureau, and the results should worry us greatly...
Bob Barr
Trust is a fragile commodity, easily lost and difficult to regain. As an asset in the public arena, honesty appears to be in shorter and shorter supply...
Bob Barr
Jack Kemp, former Republican Congressman from New York and who also served as first President Bush’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the GOP vice presidential nominee in 1996, died over the weekend at the age of 73...
Bob Barr
Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
(CNN) — Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr said Saturday it’s hard to “overestimate the damage” that’s been inflicted on the Republican Party — not only with this week's defection of Sen. Arlen Specter, but also the “lack of any coherent philosophy, vision or leadership.”
Os
Os
Vote Wayne Allyn Root!
Bob
Bob
Mr. Barr, if you stand for the libertarian ideal of a small federal government why did you, as a member of congress, threaten to freeze spending by the DC government, including locally raised taxes, until such time as Ronald Regan’s name was added to subway signs for the airport? The airport who’s name was changed by congress, not local officials. Seems to me to be bullying of local governments by the fed’s.
Bob Barr
The population of the United States is well over 306 million people.  In a normal year, our country sees literally millions of flu cases, with thousands of fatalities...
Bob Barr
With all the tools the Internet age has to offer that enable multifaceted, instantaneous communications on any conceivable topic, is it any wonder we perceive everything through the prism of a “crisis”...
Timothy
Timothy
Shoot, I got a better job in this "mini depression". Cant be that bad..
Bob Barr
It was first published in 1957, and its author has been dead for more than a quarter century, but Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is riding high once again...
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