Ted Cruz Might Just Have Won the Future for the GOP

Once denounced by McCain as ‘wacko birds’ hogging the spotlight, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are soaring. Nick Gillespie on why Cruz’s faux filibuster has nothing to do with Obamacare—and everything to do with building a broad-based coalition.

Nick Gillespie The Daily Beast 9/25/2013

Make no mistake about it: the on-going “extended speech” by Sen. […]

The Mower Gang: #Anarchy in Detroit, Part I

Zach Weissmueller Reason Magazine 9/23/2013

We all know Detroit’s in trouble: A bankrupt city full of crumbling houses, abandoned factory buildings, and a dwindling population.

But while politicians, unions, and investors slug it out in bankruptcy court and grasp for their share of what little cash is left, ordinary citizens are left to fend for […]

Rand Paul On The War Path

Once dismissed by the GOP establishment as a gadfly, Paul is starting to look a lot like the leader of his party — and his enemies are panicking. “There’s a big transition in the Republican Party,” the Kentucky senator says in a BuzzFeed interview.

 

McKay Coppins BuzFeed 9/13/2013

 

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Sen. Rand Paul Delivers Response to President’s Speech on Military Action in Syria

SenatorRandPaul YouTube 9/10/2013

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Related: Megan McArdle: Gee, Obama Sort of Went Out of His Way to Insult People Whose Support He Sought, Huh?

…His argument was, in essence: Republicans, you may not care about the freedom and dignity of foreigners, or children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital […]

Tiny Colorado city busy repealing laws during a ‘Year of Freedom’

“If you can stir people to paying attention to their own lives instead of letting it happen to them, that’s a wonderful thing.”

Greg Campbell The Daily Caller 8/12/2013

After a busy state legislative session, Glendale, Colo. — a one square-mile enclave of libertarianism surrounded by the city and county of Denver — […]

Chris Christie goes after libertarians

Alexis Levinson The Daily Caller 7/26/2013

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leveled harsh criticism at some fellow Republicans taking a more libertarian approach to foreign policy, calling the tendency “dangerous.”

“As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because […]

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