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Rand Paul: Obama Said He Would Protect 4th Amendment And Privacy But Does The Complete Opposite

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tells Sean hannity that President Obama is losing his "moral authority" in light of the recent scandals. "The other thing I think people don't like is hypocrisy," he added. Referring to the NSA's data mining program, the senator said, "[Obama] said he was going to protect our privacy, he said he [...]

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Rand Paul says U.S. taxpayers are funding a ‘war on Christianity’

American taxpayers are paying for a “war on Christianity” at home and abroad, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said during a speech at a conservative conference Thursday. “There is a war on Christianity,” Paul told an audience of mostly evangelical Christians and Jews during a luncheon at the annual Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington. [...]

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Paul Ryan: ‘I will debate anybody’ who says immigration bill is ‘amnesty’

Earlier this year, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul warned lawmakers not to trip over loaded phrases like “pathway to citizenship” and “amnesty” to describe the effort to overhaul immigration. Doing so, Paul said, would polarize the debate over reform—and he was right. Not surprisingly, opponents of the immigration bill regularly refer to it as an [...]

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Rand Paul ‘Not Yet Ready’ to Back Immigration Bill

Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday he was not yet ready to support the Senate immigration bill without tougher border security provisions. Full News here – Washington Wire

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Rand Paul Says He May Sue Over NSA Program

A Republican senator said Sunday that he plans to assemble a class action lawsuit against the federal government over a national security program that collects phone call data, saying he hopes the matter winds up before the Supreme Court. Full News here – Washington Wire

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Paul Cellucci, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts, Dies at 65

Former Gov. Paul Cellucci, a typically moderate New England Republican, also served as ambassador to Canada.      Full News here – NYT > Politics

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Paul wants to lead Supreme Court challenge to fed’s tracking of Americans’ calls, emails

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday he wants to mount a Supreme Court challenge to the federal government logging Americans’ phone calls and Internet activities. Full News here – FOXNews.com

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Yahoo News interview: Rand Paul says NSA phone records seizure saps Obama’s ‘moral authority’

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told Yahoo News Thursday that the National Security Agency’s secret seizure of U.S. telephone records violates the Bill of Rights and that he’s “appalled” by the practice. Speaking one day before President Barack Obama meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in California, Paul said the NSA program, the controversy around [...]

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Sen. Rand Paul: Obama “Thinks Due Process Is Him Making A Decision”

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): When I hear the president speak, and what he just said, if I were sitting in the audience I would stand up and cheer because what he is saying sounds so great. What he said recently about if an American were targeted for an attack, they would get due process. But [...]

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Friction between McCain, Paul underscores divide within Republican Party

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul  and Arizona Sen. John McCain are once again banging heads – this time over whether to arm Syrian rebels – in the latest dispute that underscores a divide in the GOP and intensifies the fight over what the party will represent in 2016 and beyond. Full News here – FOXNews.com

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