Those who would give up essential liberty to give corporations more ‘freedom’ deserve aren’t that interested in freedom
Three months after Senator Rand Paul’s super-important, epoch-changing 13-hour drone filibuster, more than 90% of House Republicans voted to continue the policy of indefinite detention and to keep the Guantanamo Bay prison open.
But a small group of Republicans actually joined the vast majority of Democrats to oppose these obvious affronts to civil liberties. And that’s at least little progress. Paul is picking his spots to dissent from his party’s orthodoxy. For instance, he’s warning against intervening in Syria as Senator John McCain is trying to arm any rebels he can find.…















