Dr. Rand Paul’s Op-Eds
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Fox News Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: Biden’s censors want Russian-style speech controls and they haven’t given up
"1984" had its Ministry of Truth, the Soviets had their Gulag. Today's Russians, like their kindred spirits among the American left, may be less overt in policing speech but don't let a less visible barbarity fool anyone into believing that the goal is any less of an...
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Fox Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: Here’s my plan to hold Congress’ big spenders accountable – and get transparency for American taxpayers
Last week, the Senate voted on the 2,741-page omnibus spending package, clocking in at a whopping $1.5 trillion. It was released in the middle of the night, just hours before we were expected to vote on it.Mind you, when we vote on things, we're expected to know what...
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Newsmax Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: Congress Needs to Shorten and Actually Read Bills
In light of the recent $1.5 trillion spending package - that was released in the dead of night, mere hours before a vote took place - I'm renewing my call for Congress to do the bare minimum and read the very bills they are voting on.Do you think there is a single...
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West Kentucky Star Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul on how rural Americans matter in Kentucky disaster relief
This past December, Kentucky endured a series of tornadoes that proved to be the deadliest storms in the Commonwealth's history. I was at home in Bowling Green at the time, as 155+ mph winds whipped through the city and leveled full blocks. The next day I surveyed the...
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American Conservative Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: Restraint And Support For Freedom Abroad
Most of us who believe in a foreign policy of restraint know John Quincy Adams' advice by heart:[America] . . . goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of...
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Fox News Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: COVID lockdown lessons learned Fauci amendment would mean no more health ‘dictator in chief’
This week marks the two-year anniversary of the COVID lockdowns. I join the American people in mourning the lives lost to this virus. I also mourn those we lost to the crushing and overbearing lockdowns and mandates that were based on junk science. The toll of COVID...
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Kentucky Today Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: It’s time to lift mask mandates for all schools
We are now over two years into this pandemic, and while most school boards across Kentucky have lifted mask mandates or at least made it optional, some continue to participate in Dr. Fauci's anti-science charade requiring children to wear masks. From the very...
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National Interest Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: What Putin’s Invasion Means for Foreign Policy Realism
Realism in foreign policy means that tactics and strategy change as the facts on the ground change. The best tools for deterring Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine are less relevant now that Russia has invaded.Prior to Putin's invasion, sanctions and threats of an...
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Courier Journal Op-Ed: Rand Paul: The Emmett Till Antilynching act was worth taking the time to get it right
Marie Thompson was sentenced to death in 1904 for the crime of resisting the tyranny of Jim Crow. She was not afforded an opportunity to defend herself in a court of law, nor was her constitutional right to due process recognized. Her sentence was not imposed by an...
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Lexington Herald-Leader Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: Unlike Democrats, Republicans will take high road with Supreme Court pick
Soon President Biden will have the privilege of nominating someone to the Supreme Court, a privilege Presidents often do not have the opportunity to partake in as Supreme Court Justices hold lifetime appointments.The appointment to the highest court in the land is a...
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Washington Examiner Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: As tyrants shrink back, keep up the pressure against mandates
It appears we're entering the phase of the pandemic when even the pettiest of tyrants are beginning to see the absurdity of their mandates. But don't give them full credit just yet. With the public pressure mounting and tolerance for bureaucratic edicts waning, they...
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Fox News Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “All Americans including those arrested in the Jan. 6 riots deserve due process”
As the author or co-sponsor of more than two dozen criminal justice reform bills, I have a long history of working with Democrats to correct injustice in our system, especially as it pertains to those accused of non-violent crimes such as drug possession.The right to...
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Quincy Institute Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: Why I want to kill Biden’s massive U.S.-Egyptian arms deal
According to tradition, King Menes united the two lands of Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Although Egypt appears as a single state on the globe today, American foreign policy still treats the country as though it was two completely different lands; one a critical ally...
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Courier Journal Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “Here’s how we prevent war in Ukraine”
It is no secret that I have had a lot of foreign policy disagreements with the bipartisan War Caucus in Washington D.C. during my time in office. From Iraq to Syria, and Yemen to Afghanistan, it seems that there is always a war they want to be in.I was heartened when...
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Newsmax Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “Fauci’s ‘Science’ Exacerbates Vaccine Hesitancy”
President Joe Biden warned those of us who are unvaccinated that we would be in for nuclear winter of death, dismay, and punishment for our recalcitrance.Suffering and death would be our just reward for defying Dr. Anthony Fauci's mandates.And then the Omicron variant...
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Fox Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “The arrogance of Anthony Fauci”
On my very first day in medical school, the dean gave a lecture on serendipity and scientific discovery, highlighting Penicillin as the most famous example of a scientist stumbling upon a discovery he hadn't originally intended to make.Serendipity requires an...
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Fox Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “Biden, Fauci assume the worst with omicron instead of making rational, scientific decisions”
There is a saying among people in medical school that when you're learning about what to do in an emergency situation, before you take the pulse of the person you see laying still, take your own pulse. The meaning of this saying was not to freak out, but to try to...
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Washington Examiner Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “Republicans musn’t enable Biden’s overspending by waiving PAYGO”
There's a palpable chill in the air in Washington this week, and I'm not talking about the weather.I'm talking about the icy forecast of our country's fiscal stability and the possibility that Republicans could be complicit in creating such treacherous conditions.For...
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The American Conservative Op-Ed: Dr. Rand Paul: “We can end the Saudi blockade and bring relief to the long-suffering Yemeni people”
Saudi Arabia's air and naval blockade of Yemen is an abomination. For years now, ships that would otherwise carry food, fuel, and medicine are turned away by the Saudi-led coalition, depriving the Yemeni people of the necessities to sustain civilization. Saudi...
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Fox News Op-Ed: Sen. Rand Paul, MD: “NIH lied and continues to lie about ‘gain of function’ research and COVID”
Dr. Fauci says that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did not fund 'gain-of-function' research in Wuhan and even if they did, the newly created superviruses are genetically too dissimilar to COVID to have caused the pandemic. The leftwing media allows this...