Bob Barr
Bob Barr
Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr.is a former federal prosecutor and a former Congressman. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. Barr attained national prominence as one of the leaders of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Barr joined the Libertarian Party in 2006 and served on its National Committee. He was the Libertarian Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.