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Rand Paul Bucks GOP in Opposing Voter ID Laws

Says Republicans have gone 'crazy' on the issue

(Newser) - Rand Paul thinks Republicans are way off base in pushing voter ID laws , a stance that makes him the "most prominent member of his party" to come out against them, reports the New York Times . “Everybody’s gone completely crazy on this voter ID thing,” he tells...

Clay Aiken Leads NC Race by Insanely Thin Margin

Meanwhile, establishment candidate crushes NC Tea Party candidate

(Newser) - Voters got their first chance to weigh in on Clay Aiken's political career yesterday, and it wasn't exactly a rousing success. Aiken currently holds an incredibly slim lead over his Democratic primary opponent in North Carolina's 2nd District, with 40.83% of the vote to Keith Crisco'...

Kerry: Israel Risks Being 'An Apartheid State'

Israel not happy about the comment

(Newser) - John Kerry tossed the A-word around Friday during a closed door meeting, saying that Israel could become "an apartheid state" if peace talks with Palestine failed to generate a two-state solution. The Daily Beast acquired a recording of Kerry's comments, which came during a Trilateral Commission meeting. Kerry...

Rand Paul Clears First Kentucky Hurdle in Bid for White House

State senate says he can run for president and US Senate at same time

(Newser) - If Rand Paul does indeed run for president in 2016, he's got the vexing matter of a state law in Kentucky to contend with first. Paul has made clear that even if he runs for the White House, he intends to run for reelection to his US Senate seat,...

Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll By a Mile

Takes 31% of vote to Ted Cruz's 11%

(Newser) - For the second time in as many years, Rand Paul has won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference. This year, he took 31% of the vote, far ahead of second-place Ted Cruz, who received 11%, the Washington Post reports. Behind Cruz were ex-neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with...

Rand Paul Prods Kentucky to Tweak Law

So he can run for president, Senate simultaneously

(Newser) - Oh, the difficulties faced by Rand Paul: He's considering running for president in 2016 but would like to run for re-election to the US Senate at the same time, just in case, and he's not sure Kentucky law currently allows him to do so. So he's asked...

Ted Nugent Apologizes for Obama Slam

Rocker does after taking flak from Rand Paul, others

(Newser) - If you missed the latest Ted Nugent escapade, he issued one of his typical diatribes against Barack Obama that likened the US president to a "subhuman mongrel." It's the reaction to it that seems to be getting more attention, however. Rand Paul, for instance, tweeted that the...

GOPers Focus on Jobs in SOTU Responses

McMorris Rodgers, Paul, Tea Party's Lee offer rebuttals

(Newser) - President Obama's State of the Union address was swiftly followed by a flurry of rebuttals from the GOP, offering a diversity of responses that highlight the ideological conflicts in the party, the Washington Post notes. Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranked female Republican in Congress, delivered the official...

Rand Paul: Women Are Winning War on Women
 Rand Paul: 
 Women Are 
 Winning War 
 on Women 
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Jan 26, 2014 1:25 PM CST

Rand Paul: Women Are Winning War on Women

And Bill Clinton got kind of a free pass on the Lewinsky scandal

(Newser) - War on women? Pshaw, says Rand Paul, telling CNN today that "I sort of laughingly say, 'Yeah, there might have been—but the women are winning it." Citing female majorities in medical, dental, and law schools, he added, "I think women are doing very well, and...

Paul: ObamaCare Screwup Gave My Kid Medicaid Card
Paul: ObamaCare Screwup Gave My Kid Medicaid Card
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Jan 5, 2014 1:13 PM CST

Paul: ObamaCare Screwup Gave My Kid Medicaid Card

Plus: Napolitano doesn't think Snowden should get clemency

(Newser) - Rand Paul is no fan of ObamaCare , and today less so. The Kentucky Republican took to This Week today to wave a Medicaid card at the camera—a Medicaid card he says was erroneously issued to his son when he was signing up for health insurance. "So, really, most...

Rand Paul to Use Footnotes, so 'Leave Me the Hell Alone'

Move comes as senator loses 'Washington Times' column

(Newser) - Sen. Rand Paul yesterday offered a solution to his plagiarism problem : "What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we're going to do (written material) like college papers," he tells the New York Times . "...

Rand Paul on Plagiarism: 'If Dueling Were Legal...'

Then presumably this wouldn't end well for 'haters'

(Newser) - Rand Paul has had quite enough of the "hacks and haters" stirred up about where his speeches come from , and Politico reports that he'd like to settle it like gentlemen of yore: "I take it as an insult, and I will not lie down and say people...

Rand Paul Doubles Down: I'll Block Yellen's Fed Nom

Until Senate votes on his Audit the Fed bill

(Newser) - Rand Paul says he plans to "delay" Janet Yellen's nomination for Federal Reserve chair, until there's a vote on his Audit the Fed bill, Politico reports. "I don’t think technically you can file a hold until she comes out of committee—but we’re putting...

Rand Paul Rips Off Wikipedia
 Rand Paul Rips Off Wikipedia 
Oct 29, 2013 10:52 AM CDT

Rand Paul Rips Off Wikipedia

Rachel Maddow catches the plagiarism

(Newser) - If you already thought it was weird that Rand Paul went on a rant about eugenics during a speech in Virginia yesterday, well, the story just got even weirder. Rachel Maddow pointed out last night that parts of the speech were lifted from Wikipedia, Mediaite reports. Specifically, the Wikipedia entry...

Rand Paul: Eugenics Is a Slippery Slope

The less-perfect could be eliminated through abortion, he warns

(Newser) - Rand Paul was campaigning for Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor's race today when things got a little weird. He somehow got onto the subject of eugenics while speaking at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, CBS News reports, and theorized that someday, the short, overweight, or not-as-smart among us...

Rand Paul Might Hold Up Yellen's Fed Nomination

CNBC reports that he wants a vote on his bill to audit the agency

(Newser) - Janet Yellen is still expected to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, but CNBC reports that she might hit some turbulence in the Senate thanks to Rand Paul. He's threatening to do what he can to hold up the nomination unless he gets a vote on his...

Rand Paul: Bad Idea to Blow Through Debt Ceiling
 Rand Paul: 
 Bad Idea to 
 Blow Through 
 Debt Ceiling 
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Oct 13, 2013 12:24 PM CDT

Rand Paul: Bad Idea to Blow Through Debt Ceiling

Meanwhile, Collins, Klobuchar see a deal by Thursday

(Newser) - The United States of America is exactly four days away from debt ceiling Armageddon, so politicians of all stripes crowded the Sunday talk show circuit to point fingers and wax poetically about what the other side might do better. Rand Paul led the way with the obvious, Politico reports, saying,...

Cruz: Tie Debt Ceiling to ObamaCare
 Cruz: Tie 
 Debt Ceiling 
 to ObamaCare 
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Oct 6, 2013 12:11 PM CDT

Cruz: Tie Debt Ceiling to ObamaCare

Also thinks GOP is 'winning the argument'

(Newser) - Ted Cruz today called for "ways to mitigate the harms from ObamaCare," and he's looking squarely at you, debt ceiling showdown: "The debt ceiling historically has been among the best leverage that Congress has to rein in the executive," he said today on State of ...

McConnell, Paul Shutdown Talk Caught on Hot Mic

'We're gonna win this,' Paul says

(Newser) - "We're gonna win this." That's Rand Paul's assessment of the politics surrounding the government shutdown, as related to Mitch McConnell in what the two apparently thought was a private strategy chat. In a moment caught on tape by Kentucky's WPSD 6 , Paul approaches McConnell...

Rand Paul: Put John Roberts on His Precious ObamaCare

Senate firebrand proposes constitutional amendment

(Newser) - Looks like Rand Paul hasn't forgiven John Roberts for declaring ObamaCare constitutional. The Kentucky senator says he's pushing a constitutional amendment stating that no federal employees would get special exemptions from laws—which, he tells the Daily Caller , would kick government employees off their taxpayer-subsidized health plans, and...

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