Last week, Texas governor Rick Perry made that mistake. Sen. Paul responded by mocking Gov. Perry’s new hipster glasses and saying that if the governor remains so stubbornly ignorant, “I’ll make it my personal policy to ignore Rick Perry’s opinions.”

In a recent issue of the Weekly Standard, I ask some questions about Rand Paul and isolationism, but the only response from Sen. Paul’s office has been the hurried removal of embarrassing material from the senator’s website.

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