Tag: Rand Paul

Senator Rand Paul Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Chris Butler

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement his staff released on his social media accounts Sunday afternoon.

“He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person,” according to the statement.

“He expects to be back in the Senate after his quarantine period ends and will continue to work for the people of Kentucky at this difficult time. Ten days ago, our D.C. office began operating remotely, hence virtually no staff has had contact with Senator Rand Paul.”

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Rand Paul Offers to Buy Omar Ticket to Somalia So She Would ‘Appreciate America More’

Anthony Gockowski

  Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he’s willing to contribute to travel expenses for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) to visit Somalia so she would “appreciate America more.” “I’m in a town where we have a lot of people who are refugees. Some come from Somalia, some from Bosnia. I’ve never heard one of them say that America is a terrible place or be unappreciative of our country. Most of them are thankful,” Paul told Breitbart News this week. Paul joined President Donald Trump earlier this month in criticizing Omar for her “bitterness and anger toward the country.” “I think she does deserve a rebuke over trying to say we have a rotten country,” Paul said of Trump’s comments, according to the Washington Examiner. “I’m sort of dumbfounded how unappreciative she is of our country.” The Kentucky senator elaborated on those comments when speaking with reporters from Breitbart News this week. “She came here and we fed her, we clothed her. She got welfare. She got school. She got healthcare. And then, lo and behold, she has the honor of actually winning a seat in Congress and she says we’re a terrible country. I think that’s about as ungrateful as you…

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Commentary: Say It Ain’t So Rand, Say It Ain’t So

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by CHQ Staff   Our liberty-minded friend Senator Rand Paul has apparently come out in support of a resolution blocking President Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to fund the much-needed security wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. According to multiple media reports, Sen. Paul said in a speech Saturday that he “can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.” According to the Bowling Green [Kentucky] Daily News, Paul told attendees of the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner, “I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress.” Paul also said, “We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.” Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, Susan Collins, of Maine, and Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, have also signaled opposition to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, leaving Senate passage of the Democrats’ resolution of disapproval a strong possibility. The problem we have with Senator Paul’s argument against the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border is two-fold. First, it rests upon the faulty constitutional premise that the…

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Rand Paul Attacker Donated $100 to His Democratic Senate Opponent in 2010

Tennessee Star Staff

Rene Boucher, the 59-year-old doctor and inventor who was arrested for assaulting Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in his Bowling Green, Kentucky home on Saturday, donated $100 to his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, in the 2010 U.S. Senate election. Federal Election Commission records show that Rene Boucher, an anesthesiologist employed by Interventional Pain Specialists, donated $100 to Conway for Senate in 2010. The contribution was made through the leading liberal fundraising website, ACT BLUE, a qualified PAC based in Massachusetts, on September 26, 2010, and was specifically “earmarked for Conway for Senate.” ACT BLUE is used by leading left wing Democrats to raise funds nationally, the most prominent of which include Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Paul, son of well known former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the libertarian leaning former Republican presidential candidate, defeated Democratic nominee Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway in the 2010 U.S. Senate general election in Kentucky by a 56 percent to 44 percent margin as part of the Tea Party wave election. He was easily re-elected in 2016 over Democratic opponent Jim Gray, winning by a 57 percent to 42 percent margin. The details of Boucher’s assault on Paul in his private residence…

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Rand Paul Accuses Big Government Republicans of ‘Going Back on Their Word to Repeal Obamacare’

Tennessee Star Staff

Sen. Rand Paul accused “big-government Republicans” of going “back on their word to repeal Obamacare” by supporting the revised Senate health care bill. “The real problem we have is, we won four elections on repealing Obamacare, but this bill keeps most of the Obamacare taxes, keeps most of the regulations, keeps most of the subsidies, and…

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Rand Paul on Being Targeted By Shooter at Republican Baseball Practice: ‘Do We Lay Here, Stay Low and Hope He Doesn’t Hit Us?’

Tennessee Star Staff

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said he was in the batting cage Wednesday when he heard an isolated shot and then a rapid succession of five or 10 shots at the congressional baseball practice in Virginia. Mr. Scalise was in the field, “shot but moving, and he’s trying to drag himself through the dirt out into…

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Rand Paul: Lindsey Graham ‘Needs to Mind His Own Business’

Tennessee Star Staff

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) “mind his own business” after his colleague asserted he is a definite lost vote on repealing and replacing Obamacare, during an interview Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” Paul has been a staunch advocate for completely, rather than partially, repealing Obamacare. The Kentucky senator did express dissatisfaction…

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Rand Paul Endorses Glenn Jacobs for Knox County Mayor

Tennessee Star Staff

Glenn Jacobs, known the world over as World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Kane,” is also a longtime libertarian and conservative activist who recently stepped into the political arena when he announced his bid for mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. On Tuesday, Jacobs received the endorsement of one of the most high profile libertarian-leaning conservatives in Washington, Senator Rand…

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Commentary: Rand Paul Was Right About McCain

Tennessee Star Staff

Republished with permission from ConservativeHQ.com. By CHQ.com Staff February 20, 2017 Yesterday, our friend U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky sure got it right during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” Paul said Senator John McCain’s comments criticizing President Trump’s comments about the press may be fueled more by personal animosity to the president than a legitimate concern about freedom of the press. McCain in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” warned that the suppression of a free press can lead to a dictatorial regime. He made the comments after Trump tweeted on Friday that the media is “the enemy of the American people.” “This is colored by John McCain’s disagreement with President Trump,” Paul said. “Everything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he has got running with President Trump — and it should be taken with a grain of salt because John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere.” “Actually, we’re very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war,” Senator Paul continued. “If you look at the map, there’s probably at least six different countries where John McCain has…

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