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I’m Not My Dad! Rand Paul’s Coming Out Speech

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The senator from Kentucky gave a foreign-policy speech that tried to be all things to all Republicans. David Freedlander on the GOP’s slow march to 2016.

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Call it the “Empire Strikes Back” speech.

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Not because Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s foreign-policy speech at the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation necessarily called for an expansive American empire or endorsed striking back at enemies; it expressly rebuked both.

But the speech, called “Containment and Radical Islam” and dedicated to the...

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