Sen. Paul’s filibuster can be viewed live on CSpan 2. Senator Rand Paul is leading a one-man filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Senator Paul is on the Senate floor quoting Hayek, Montesquieu, GlennGreenwald and an author
The big winner of the fight over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense is not President Barack Obama, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Democrats have called Paul’s views on Israel “deeply disturbing” because he wants to end foreign aid
On Feb. 21, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will use every procedural option at his disposal to block the confirmation of John Brennan for CIA Director. Paul found Brennan’s answers regarding the use of drones on Americans insufficient at
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Fox’s “Happening Now” Friday morning….
In the first installment of this series, we noted the considerable public opposition to big government, as well as a palpable hostility to the status quo, suggesting the possibility of new political ferment–inside of, or outside of, the two party system. In part
On Monday, Sal Russo, co-founder of Tea Party Express, the political action committee that sponsored Rand Paul’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, said that his group was considering a nationwide bus tour specifically focused on the
Senator Rand Paul on Fox News Sunday…
Senator Rand Paul on President Barack Obama’s spending problems today on FOX News Sunday.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Fox News Sunday “Ideally we would have done the right thing and passed appropriation bills…the sequester is sort of a hammer,”
Conservatives are wondering why high-profile champions – and likely 2016 Republican presidential candidates – such as Marco Rubio and Rand Paul are in such a hurry to consummate a Faustian bargain on comprehensive immigration reform, which most conservatives think is
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said on FOX News this morning that he is going to block John Brennan’s nomination to CIA over the Obama Administration’s use of domestic drones
Many Libertarians and Tea Party conservatives would be happy at the thought of high school students reading something like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a requirement for their English classes. However, even the most modest fan of Rand’s Objectivist ideology
Senator Angus King, Jr., a political independent who caucus with the Democratic Party, agreed with Rand Paul on setting up oversight for drone strikes against American citizens.
Rand Paul appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will give the Tea Party response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Paul will deliver his remarks at the National Press Club after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivers the Republican response,
Senator Rand Paul is suggesting that the Obama administration’s initial cover up of the Benghazi consulate attack, where they blame some movie as causing a riot that led to the attack, was actually a smoke-screen for a gun-running operation between
Rand Paul drop a deuce on a toilet-regulating bureaucrat, hilarity ensues (hat tip to Say Uncle and Professor Puppyblender): I like to think some of my Twitter shtick (e.g. “I believe in a woman’s right to choose an incandescent lightbulb”) might
Presidential hopeful Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered a foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation Wednesday that relied on outdated Cold War policies at some points and incoherent assertions at others, all sprinkled with a quasi-pacifism. For example, in the
Rand Paul gave a big foreign policy speech to the Heritage Foundation today, in which he presented a greatly tidied-up version of the elder Paul’s anti-interventionism as the true expression of Reaganite foreign policy. It was an interesting speech, filled
Hours after slamming the death of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was shot to death at a gun range last weekend in Texas, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul issued a Facebook statement to clarify his earlier remarks. Paul had earlier tweeted, “Chris
Perhaps having read our earlier discussion about Rand Paul’s prospects for higher office, and his need to distance himself from his father’s eccentricities, the elder Paul decided to give his son something else to sprint away from. “Chris Kyle’s death
In response to Unlike Ron, Rand Talks Tough On Iran: Larry, I think Rand Paul is indisputably a more serious candidate than his father – as the conventional wisdom has it, Rand is far better at “retail politics.” The challenge
Last week Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he would take no options off the table in preventing a nuclear Iran… including military intervention. With this one simple position, Rand sets himself up as a much more serious candidate than his
“Why shouldn’t Iran have Nuclear weapons?” Those were the disconcerting words from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) during a 2011 GOP debate in Iowa as the perennial presidential candidate gave Americans reason number one to not take him seriously as a candidate
