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Four Principles for a Libertarian National Security State

Listen Up, Rand

You know what libertarians are against: unnecessary foreign wars, the growing surveillance state. But what sort of national security state do libertarians support? Nick Gillespie lays out four principles, and Rand Paul's 2016 team should be taking notes.

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Like hits for Katy Perry, the scandals for the National Security Agency just keep coming. In the wake of revelations that the NSA has been tracking virtually every phone call ever made and sifting through Internet data like a crazed prospector panning for gold at Sutter’s Mill, there’s yet more...

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