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"I think collecting data is not a Fourth Amendment activity if it's related to gathering intelligence to prevent a terrorist attack," Graham told the Washington Examiner. "It's not being used to prosecute anybody."

BS!

The NSA is giving your phone records to the DEA. And the DEA is covering it up

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been the recipient of multiple tips from the NSA. DEA officials in a highly secret office called the Special Operations Division are assigned to handle these incoming tips, according to Reuters. Tips from the NSA are added to a DEA database that includes "intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records." This is problematic because it appears to break down the barrier between foreign counterterrorism investigations and ordinary domestic criminal investigations.

Because the SOD's work is classified, DEA cases that began as NSA leads can't be seen to have originated from a NSA source.

So what does the DEA do? It makes up the story of how the agency really came to the case in a process known as "parallel construction."...

How about calling a spade a spade? It's a process known as LYING!

Lindsay Graham has Potomac Fever. The only known cure is retirement.

They should have done this before the thirtieth one. Would have saved me a very awkward moment explaining those Web search results....

If the government were prosecuting adultery, fornication, sodomy and dereliction then marriage would eliminate many of the pretenses for big government.

So, if we already had a totalitarian government that intruded into the most private affairs of citizens, there would be no demand to make it even bigger?

My brain hurts....

That’s what happens when you let the government intrude into (and inevitably mess up) a societal institution.

I heard on Rush thad reintroduced himself to a reporter 30 minutes after an interview

That's what happens when he stays awake that long without his nap.

If the government does not hand out goodies based on marital status who cares?

That's the evil genius of it:

1. Government comes up with some rationalization for taking control of a social institution.
2. Enough suckers buy the excuse to let it happen.
3. Once the takeover is a fait accompli, it becomes part of the rationale for the next takeover.
4. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Government, like cancer, has a “vested interest” in growing and infiltrating its surroundings.

"Why do you support the NSA’s illegal and ubiquitous data collection?"

"Because hubby gets a big cut of the government contracts, duh. Now scram, peasant!"

William F. Buckley is "liberal"?

(backs away slowly looking for the exit)

ALL LAWS boil down to moral issues

Which of the following is an evil nation?

1. The US, where people drive on the right.
2. The UK, where people drive on the left.

If "all laws boil down to moral issues", then clearly, of these two opposite laws, one must be good and the other must be evil.

What's with that guy, anyway? He looks like one of the Duck Dynasty clan, only not as well groomed.

Cochran, by contrast, did not appear to address his supporters.

What, and interrupt his Matlock marathon?

WE USED TO HAVE a non state recording system. It was full of fraud and abandonment.

Good thing we put it into the hands of an unfailingly honest and conscientious organization like the government, huh?

Since when is the National Review a "liberal rag"?

Getting rid of the ridiculous complexities of the tax code would solve a lot of problems, including this one.

the people should control marriage.

The people do control marriage. Obviously, one of the proper functions of government is to prevent people from being forced or tricked into marriages involuntarily.

A way to cut the Gordian Knot that has been tying up the conservative movement and obstructing progress toward rolling back Big Government.

Funny, I don't feel at all "reassured"....

"Natural Born Citizen" means citizen by right of birth (as opposed to "naturalized" later). The claims that Ted Cruz somehow fails to qualify despite the fact that he was clearly a citizen at birth are just plain bogus.

Sure, if you prefer some other candidate, go for it -- but use valid arguments for why your guy is better.