{"id":2316,"date":"2013-06-14T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:39:12","slug":"rand-paul-and-the-rise-of-the-libertarian-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/rand-paul-and-the-rise-of-the-libertarian-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul and the rise of the libertarian Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130614-123548\"><img src='https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brennan_cia_03945-75381.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest evidence is Paul\u2019s (R-Ky.) plan to launch a class action lawsuit against the government for the National Security Agency\u2019s collection of phone records and monitoring of Internet data. \u201cIf we get 10 million Americans saying we don\u2019t want our phone records looked at, then somebody will wake up and say things will change in Washington,\u201d Paul argued during an appearance on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s seizing on the NSA issue comes less than three months after he made national headlines for his filibuster of the nomination of now-CIA Director John Brennan. And both issues have a narrative string connecting them: Paul as the most visible defender of civil liberties not only in the Senate, but in elected office right now.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130614-123548\">Rand Paul and the rise of the libertarian Republican<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest evidence is Paul\u2019s (R-Ky.) plan to launch a class action lawsuit against the government for the National Security Agency\u2019s collection of phone records and monitoring of Internet data. \u201cIf we get 10 million Americans saying we don\u2019t want our phone records looked at, then somebody will wake up and say things will change in Washington,\u201d Paul argued during an appearance on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d Paul\u2019s seizing on the NSA issue comes less than three months after he made national headlines for his filibuster of the nomination of now-CIA Director John Brennan. And both issues have a narrative string connecting them: Paul as the most visible defender of civil liberties not only in the Senate, but in elected office right now. via Rand Paul and the rise of the libertarian Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}