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I will be paying my respects to the Patriot Act at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference <\/strong>in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. The panel is sponsored by the Campaign For Liberty<\/strong><\/a>. C4L will be having lots of stout events at this year’s CPAC. The tone of CPAC has radically changed since C4L became active there. <\/p>\n

The other speaker on this particular panel will be Jacob Hornberger<\/strong>, the chief of the Future of Freedom Foundation<\/strong><\/a>. Hornberger is plenty eloquent, so he might just sway me to his point of view on the Patriot Act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will be paying my respects to the Patriot Act at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. The panel is sponsored by the Campaign For Liberty. C4L will be having lots of stout events at this year’s CPAC. 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