What does Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) run-in with the Transportation Safety Administration in a Nashville airport today have to do with @MentionManchine?
By TIM MAK | Politico Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was detained Monday by the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tenn., after refusing a full body pat-down, POLITICO has confirmed. “I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely,” Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley said. “The image scan went off; he refused patdown.” [...]
By Huma Khan, ABCNews.com The Tea Party movement emerged on the U.S. political scene with much fanfare, but nearly three years after it began, its influence in the 2012 presidential election has yet to stand out. The grassroots conservative movement was successful in pulling in hundreds of thousands of Americans into the nation’s capital and [...]
By SEN. RAND PAUL, The Des Moines Register As a U.S. senator elected from and by the tea party, I am often asked about the tea party, the conservative movement and the presidential race. While conservatives and limited-government activists did, indeed, make great strides in 2010, those could easily be set back by nominating someone [...]
The freshman Republican senator from Kentucky on Tuesday took on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. – a highly decorated veteran and former presidential candidate – over a provision in the defense authorization bill that would deny civilian trials to American terrorism suspects.
With little more than a week to go until the Iowa straw poll in Ames, some of the Republican presidential candidates continued to beef up their operations in the Hawkeye State, which holds the first presidential caucus.
With the economic recovery on life support, three Tea Party-backed senators are betting on gold to reverse the nation’s fortunes.
On Newsmakers, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will hold up the Senate’s business next week to force a debate on the debt limit. The Senate canceled its Fourth of July break to ensure discussions on raising the debt ceiling continues, but most of the discussions are happening behind the scenes.
It’s been nearly a decade since Congress, in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hastily approved the USA Patriot Act and its historic expansion of law enforcement and domestic intelligence-gathering powers.
Capping a week of political bickering and parliamentary delays, the House joined the Senate on Thursday to pass a four-year extension of key provisions of the Patriot Act that was set to expire at midnight.
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