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Registered Blog Name: Bob Barr Status: National Leader
Blog@Newsbull: http://BobBarr.newsbull.com
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Keep the IRS out of healthcare
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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The Internal Revenue Service is an agency of the federal government like no other. The IRS is more powerful than the Department of Justice; it is bigger than the governments of many small countries; it is able to strike fear in the hearts of the most self-assured and upright citizen with a single phone call; and if the Congress has its way, it will become even bigger and more powerful. Under both versions of the health care legislation passed late last year by... MORE
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Jan 19 2010 6:30:22 PM |
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Google — Master of the universe
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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Eric Schmidt just may be the world’s most powerful CEO. He is not the highest-paid CEO and the company he heads is not the largest in size. Schmidt’s vast power stems from the fact that he controls the largest collection of personal data ever amassed. Eric Schmidt is CEO of Google, and the universe of information over which he holds sway is chock-full of deeply personal data on untold millions of individuals, companies, and even government... MORE
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Dec 14 2009 8:29:10 PM |
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Army Corps of Engineers sticks finger in Atlanta’s eye
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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The US Army Corps of Engineers, not often known for swift action, seems suddenly to have sprouted winged feet. Unfortunately for the Atlanta metropolitan area, the Corps’ new-found efficiency appears designed to stab the area in the back. In a decision announced shortly before Thanksgiving, the lieutenant colonel heading the Corps’ Mobile District, which oversees the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin, decided to kowtow to the federal judge... MORE
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Nov 30 2009 6:59:12 PM |
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“Perfect Storm” For UN Gun Control Agenda
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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The folks at United Nations headquarters in New York City, and our “allies” at Number 10 Downing Street in London, must be rubbing their hands with glee. Gun control groups here and abroad likewise are at last quietly cheering. Why? After a decade and a half of pushing unsuccessfully to secure America’s support for a legally-binding, international instrument to regulate the marketing, transfer and brokering in firearms, they are... MORE
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Oct 26 2009 12:57:03 PM |
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Robo-scanning at airports may be near
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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Two years ago in this column, I wrote that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was deploying “Behavior Detection Officers” (BDOs) at America’s airports to watch for “suspicious” behavior exhibited by people at those facilities. The program purported to teach undercover TSA employees to scan people at airports – not just passengers waiting to pass through security, but everyone – for tell-tale signs of... MORE
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Oct 20 2009 4:35:59 PM |
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The Persecution of Bernie Kerik
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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One of the most spectacular falls from grace in recent years is that suffered by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard ("Bernie") Kerik. This was the man who shared the international limelight and afterglow with Rudy Giuliani for their visibility on September 11, 2001. He had very nearly served as a US cabinet officer; nominated by former President George W. Bush in late 2004 to be the nation's second Secretary of Homeland Security... MORE
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Oct 13 2009 12:32:49 PM |
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Sex Offender Vagabond?
Posting Member: Bob Barr
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Let’s be clear – I dislike sex offenders, especially those who commit sex offenses against minors, as much as any member of the Georgia General Assembly. Those who commit such heinous acts as soliciting minors for sexual prostitution, should be prosecuted and punished severely, as Georgia law has for many years provided.
But let’s be equally clear – passing legislation piling on endless restrictions and burdens on those who already have served prison terms and who remain subject to extensive monitoring, is neither responsible nor... MORE
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Oct 05 2009 4:56:59 PM |
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UNESCO Gets off the Track Again
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Would you belong and pay dues to a foreign organization that is anti-morality and anti-marriage? If not, why do we allow the United States to use our taxpayers' money to pay dues for membership in UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)?
One of President Ronald Reagan's many excellent decisions was his 1984 termination of U.S. membership in this United Nations affiliate because it... MORE
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Oct 13 2009 12:06:41 PM |
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The Opportunity of a Century
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said one correct thing: health care legislation is our "opportunity, not of a lifetime, but of the century." Passage of the bill she supports would put us forever on the road to trillions of dollars in debt, bankruptcy, and European mistakes; defeat of the bill will safeguard the unique American recipe for liberty and prosperity.
Pelosi and her friends would give more control to patients over their medical care IF the liberals really wanted to improve quality and reduce cost. Instead, they are trying to push our nation in... MORE
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Aug 29 2009 3:25:57 PM |
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NEA Goes All-Out for Same-Sex Marriage
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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The National Education Association (NEA), which usually passes a dozen or more pro-homosexual resolutions every year at its annual national convention, this year in San Diego went all-out in support of same-sex marriage. This emphasis on advocacy for homosexuals was spelled out in a five-point New Business Item E.
Point #1 tells its union affiliates to support state legislation that registers same-sex couples in a way that mimics marriage. This registration would cover... MORE
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Aug 07 2009 11:41:12 AM |
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Harold Koh Is Too Dangerous for America
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Does Barack Obama really want to make Americans subject to foreign law and courts? That is the question Senators should ask when they vote on his nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, former dean of the Yale Law School, to be the top lawyer at the State Department.
Koh is encumbered by a long paper trail that proves he is eager to use foreign and international law to interpret American law. He calls himself a transnationalist, which means wanting U.S. courts to... MORE
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May 29 2009 5:16:18 PM |
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ACORN Should Not Receive Taxpayers' Money
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Several prominent non-Republicans and ex-Republicans have been all over the media giving advice to Republicans about how they should re-brand themselves and which issues they should talk about. Among this unsolicited advice is that Republicans should stop criticizing ACORN.
Au contraire; Republicans should loudly demand that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) be cut off from all further... MORE
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May 26 2009 10:19:03 PM |
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Don't Fall for Cap and Tax
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Barack Obama promised that he won't raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. He neglected to mention that this tax exemption will go only to those who don't use electricity, gasoline, heating oil, or natural gas.
The truth of the matter is that Obama will raise taxes on practically all middle-class Americans. But that's not all; in addition to new taxes on all those necessities (just think of all the appliances in your home that use electricity), he will drastically reduce our... MORE
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May 15 2009 7:44:03 PM |
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Common Sense by Oliver North
Posting Member: Freedom Alliance
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Washington, D.C. – It is said that there are two kinds of lawyers – those who know the law, and those who know the judge. And then there is Harold Koh, the man who is likely to be the next Legal Adviser to the State Department. Mr. Koh most recently served as Dean of the Yale Law School and before that as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Labor and Human Rights in the Clinton administration. He is a prolific author and a legal activist of the Left. Earlier this week, his nomination to... MORE
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May 15 2009 7:21:55 PM |
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Yes, Marriage Can Be Saved From the Gay Lobby
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Since the April defeats for traditional marriage in the Iowa Supreme Court, the Vermont legislature, and the Washington, D.C. city council, Americans in the other 48 states are quietly stress-testing their legal defenses against the spread of legalized same-sex marriage.
The Iowa ruling was particularly shocking. Not one of Iowa's seven supreme court justices, who were appointed by both Republican and Democratic governors over the past 15 years, could identify a... MORE
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Apr 17 2009 1:37:20 PM |
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College Student Alert: Beware of One-Party Classrooms
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama's extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much touted "remaking America" means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt? Are the American people really willing to let the government be our nanny, manage our economy, federalize our schools, decide which businesses can keep their doors open, what health care we will be permitted, who will get new... MORE
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Apr 11 2009 1:37:31 PM |
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Republicans Can't Afford to Default to Obama
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Republicans are still awestruck at how Barack Obama was able to get every Democrat in the House and Senate to vote for his Stimulus package despite opinion polls showing impressive public opposition. The answer is Obama's use of his years of training in Saul Alinsky-style community organizing combined with 21st-century technology.
This converted his successful campaign tools and technology into a political tsunami to pass tremendous spending bills that will saddle us, our... MORE
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Mar 21 2009 6:01:53 PM |
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E-Verify Is a Shovel-Ready Solution
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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"Never let a serious crisis go to waste." With that pithy motto, coined last November by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, President Obama has committed over four trillion dollars of America's wealth to further his goal of "remaking America" along the lines of socialist Europe.
"Never waste a good crisis," echoed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week in Brussels. She told an audience at the European Parliament that "the United States has been negligent in... MORE
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Mar 15 2009 6:38:06 PM |
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Obama's Stimulus
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Under the subterfuge of helping the economy, Barack Obama's Stimulus legislates vast new spending programs to finance liberal policy goals that are unnecessary and undesirable. The flow of taxpayers' money will be so gargantuan as to make Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society expansion of the welfare state look puny.
Barack Obama revealed his long-term goals in a radio interview on... MORE
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Mar 02 2009 7:11:21 PM |
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Obama Gives What the Doctor Did Not Order
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Barack Obama forced a bitter pill down the throats of Americans which the doctor did not order and patients do not want. Obama snuck into the stimulus bill a new system for rationing medical care, and he got Congress to ram it through the House and Senate without reading it.
Maybe Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi thought no one would notice what they slipped into H.R.1 since rationing medical care has nothing to do with stimulating the economy. But the former... MORE
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Feb 22 2009 10:09:14 PM |
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Obama's Picks Don't Change the Culture in Washington
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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President Barack Obama has indeed made history. His selections for his Cabinet and other top government offices make a mockery of his much publicized campaign promises to give us "the most sweeping ethics reform in history" and to "close the revolving door" to lobbyists.
Some historians confer the ignominious appellation of most corrupt on President U.S. Grant of the 1870s, some on President Warren G. Harding's Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, some even on President Bill Clinton. We'll leave it to historians to... MORE
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Feb 14 2009 7:01:15 PM |
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Barack's Bailout for Trial Lawyers
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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The jobless rate just hit its highest level in 16 years: 7.2 percent, which means more than 11 million Americans are unemployed. So the Democratic House responded by passing two bills making it more costly to hire workers.
Barack Obama has been preaching that our economy is in crisis and Congress absolutely must pass another mammoth stimulus package right now. "Today's jobs report," he said, "only underscores the need to move with a sense of urgency and common... MORE
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Jan 18 2009 6:49:44 PM |
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Keeping Our American Identity
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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Can you name the three branches of American government, legislative, executive, and judicial? If so, you are among the one-half of Americans who know this very basic fact about the U.S. government and Constitution.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), which earlier has conducted in-depth studies of what American college students know, and don't know, about civics, now reports equally depressing facts about grown-ups. It appears that adults, too, lack the civic knowledge they need to be informed citizens and... MORE
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Jan 10 2009 3:14:56 PM |
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Con Con Is a Terrible Idea
Posting Member: Eagle Forum
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The mind-boggling amounts of the bailouts Congress has passed and is still debating, plus shocking Wall Street frauds, seem to have plunged some lawmakers into a silly season. Ohio state legislators this month held a surprise hearing on a resolution calling for a national constitutional convention, and then canceled a vote after dozens of citizens showed up to speak against it.
We already have a U.S. Constitution that has withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for more than two centuries, and... MORE
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Dec 20 2008 09:55:03 AM |
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"The Doctor Will See All of You Now"
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You are sitting in a doctor's waiting room with eight other sick patients and the nurse announces: The doctor will see all of you now — at the same time. That's how the Boston Globe recently described shared visits that are being used to cope with the long waits now customary in Massachusetts.
Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama are planning that the new Democratic Congress's first order of business will be to extend the... MORE
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Dec 12 2008 1:24:54 PM |
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Blog Notes
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| Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. Bob Barr occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and serves as a Board Member of the National Rifle Association and the Patrick Henry Center. He also serves as the Chairman of Patriots to Restore Checksand Balances, and provides advice to several organizations, including consulting on privacy issues with the ACLU, serving on the Legal Advisory Board for Southeastern Legal Foundation, serving as the Chair for Youth Leadership Training at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and as a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security, based at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. Bob served as a Member of the Long-Term Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Norms in the War on Terrorism, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 2003 to 2005. Recognizing Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.” Bob serves as a contributor for CNN and writes a regular column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also hosts a nationally-syndicated weekly radio show, "Bob Barr's Laws of the Universe." Bob is a Contributing Editor for The American Spectator, and his writings have appeared in numerous academic, local, regional, and national publications. Bob is the author of “The Meaning of Is, The Squandered Impeachment And Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,” published by Stroud & Hall, and available from Amazon.com. Bob also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. Bob is President and CEO of Liberty Strategies, LLC, a firm he founded to assist individuals, organizations and governments in formulating and implementing strategies to achieve their goals in the public policy arena. Bob was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), and served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91). He was an official with the CIA (1971-78), and practiced law for many years. He currently serves Of Counsel with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, with a national and international practice in both civil and criminal law. Bob Barr has traveled widely and spoken to audiences across America and internationally, and has served as an official member of the U.S. delegation at three major United Nations conferences. He also speaks to local and national groups on a regular basis and is affiliated with one of the largest agencies specializing in professional speaking engagements, Keppler Associates . |
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:: Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. :: Barr now works tirelessly to help preserve our fundamental right to privacy and our other civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Bob does this through his work in a number of forums. For example, he occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and serves as a Board Member of the National Rifle Association. He is also a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security. Bob served as a Member of the Long-Term Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Norms in the War on Terrorism, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 2003 to 2005. In fact, recognizing Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.”
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• National Rifle Association
• Republican National Committee
• Cato Institute
• Americans For Tax Reform
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