In honor of Muhammad Ali, Sen. Rand Paul will introduce bill to end Selective Service

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, will soon be filing stand-alone legislation to end the practice of registering for the Selective Service.
The bill titled ‘The Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act’ will be presented to Congress in honor of the famed boxer who refused to serve in the Vietnam War.
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Ted Cruz-Rand Paul competition could reshape Republican Party

Conservative stars appeal to voters in radically different ways.  The most attention-grabbing conservatives in the emerging 2016 Republican presidential nomination race are two freshmen U.S. senators who had never held elective office before.  Though nearly equal in their fanfare, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas are romancing Republican and independent voters in radically different ways. The outcome of their fierce competition could influence the direction of their party.

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Rand Paul: Proud to be a Republican

Published on Oct 13, 2013 by the Washington Free Beacon - As a guest on CNN's 'State of the Union', Sen. Rand Paul laughed off Candy Crowley's question Sunday about whether he'd consider leaving the Republican Party and even becoming a Democrat.

Rough Transcript -

CC: Do you see yourself, at any point in the future, being anything other than... politically... a member of the Republican Party?

RP: Hmm. (small laugh) You mean... you're implying a third party or some other party?

CC: ...Or if you wanted to become a Democrat. There are lots of... lots of other parties out there. Do you see yourself as being anything other than a Republican?

RP: (Laugh) No. I've always been a Republican and I'm one of those people who is actually a real lover of the history of the Republican Party from the days of abolition, to the days of civil rights. The Republican Party has a really rich history. In our state, I'm really proud that the ones who overturned Jim Crowe in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be a Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

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Why Rand Paul's 13-Hour Filibuster Matters

WASHINGTON EXAMINER by Timothy P. Carney, Senior Political Columnist (via Fox Nation) - What did Rand Paul accomplish last night? ✧ Besides delaying for a day the vote on President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, did Sen. Rand Paul accomplish anything besides “blowing up Twitter,” as his cohort Ted Cruz put it? He certainly did. How much he accomplished will be determined, but here are some places to look: [Abreviated] ✧ He got the major media talking; he got many Republicans to express objections to extrajudicial drone killings; he made a conservative case for limiting war powers; he made a libertarian outreach to the anti-war Left; he exposed the craven partisanship of the Democrats [with a few exceptions including Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)] and; he made himself a major Republican figure. Read more at Fox Nation...

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