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Latest Articles: Ron Paul
Were There Norms Dick Cheney Wasn't Prepared to Transgress?
Post Date: 2015-11-09 05:52:29 by Ada
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George H.W. Bush tells his biographer that his secretary of defense considered using tactical nuclear weapons against Iraqi forces in the First Gulf War. When Dick Cheney left the vice presidency his approval rating stood at a dismal 13 percent. As it turns out, even George H.W. Bush thought that he did a bad job. “After years of holding back, former President George Bush has finally broken his public silence about some of the key figures in his son’s administration, issuing scathing critiques of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld,” the New York Times reported, cribbing from a Jon Meacham biography of the 41st president that will be in ...
Obama rejects Keystone XL
Post Date: 2015-11-08 12:20:36 by Ada
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After years of deliberate delays President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline today. This is a victory for radical environmentalists and those who wish America ill. It is a punch in the face to everyone else. Keystone XL is a clean, safe way to transport Canadian oil to American refineries and markets. It would bring jobs along with abundant, affordable energy. Stopping the pipeline has no meaningful benefits for the environment and will create no meaningful change to global temperature. House Speaker Paul Ryan had this to say: “This decision isn’t surprising, but it is sickening,” the Wisconsin Republican said. “By rejecting this pipeline, the president is ...
Murder Over Sinai
Post Date: 2015-11-07 06:15:43 by Ada
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Whoever bombed the Russian airliner that was destroyed over Sinai last week must be having a hearty laugh watching the ensuing chaotic reaction of the great powers. As of this writing, it increasingly appears that the Russian Metroliner A321-200 Airbus was indeed downed by an explosion. Curiously, no traces of explosive residues have yet been found –or at least yet reported. There remains the much smaller probability that the aircraft’s tail may have fallen off as the result of metal fatigue caused by a ground collision over a decade ago. Egypt, whose vital tourist industry has been battered this year after bloody repression of opponents of its brutal military dictatorship, ...
The Real Issues You Won't Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates This Election Year
Post Date: 2015-11-06 08:49:14 by Ada
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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and you can expect to be treated to an earful of carefully crafted, expensive sound bites and political spin about climate change, education, immigration, taxes and war. Despite the dire state of our nation, however, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible, helpful way by any of the so-called viable presidential candidates and certainly not if doing so ...
Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria
Post Date: 2015-11-05 09:14:34 by BTP Holdings
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Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria by Olivier Knox November 4, 2015 Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Tim Kaine, D.-Va., says he has yet to see a “credible strategy” for battling the Islamic State in Syria. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Sen. Tim Kaine said Wednesday that President Obama still does not have a clear strategy for confronting the so-called Islamic State in Syria. Kaine, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a Virginia Democrat, also cautioned his party’s candidates not to prioritize issues like restrictions on gun ownership above improving the economy. “I don’t ...
Rubio's New Billionaire Backer Has Gay Marriage Agenda
Post Date: 2015-11-05 08:18:54 by BTP Holdings
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Rubio's New Billionaire Backer Has Gay Marriage Agenda Image: Rubio's New Billionaire Backer Has Gay Marriage Agenda By John Gizzi | Wednesday, 04 Nov 2015 09:42 PM The news last week that Paul Singer, billionaire Republican fundraiser and unabashed advocate of same-sex marriage, will support Marco Rubio for president has drawn mixed reviews from state and national pro-family activists. As Rubio rises in state and national polls, new scrutiny is being made of his positions and supporters. A billionaire hedge fund manager, Singer has been a major GOP donor – and has made quite clear that his priority issue has been support of gay rights in the Republican Party. Singer ...
The Mistress of Deception
Post Date: 2015-11-05 06:17:18 by Ada
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The self-inflicted wounds of Hillary Rodham Clinton just keep manifesting themselves. She has two serious issues that have arisen in the past week; one is political and the other is legal. Both have deception at their root. Her political problem is one of credibility. We know from her emails that she informed her daughter Chelsea and the then-prime minister of Egypt within 12 hours of the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, that he had been killed in Benghazi by al-Qaida. We know from the public record that the Obama administration’s narrative blamed the killings of the ambassador and his guards on an anonymous crowd’s spontaneous reaction to an ...
America's Non-representative War Government
Post Date: 2015-11-05 06:05:29 by Ada
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"The success of government...," the late historian Edmund Morgan wrote, "requires the acceptance of fictions, requires the willing suspension of disbelief, requires us to believe that the emperor is clothed even though we can see that he is not.” Representation is chief among those fictions. “Just as the exaltation of the king could be a means of controlling him," Morgan continued, "so the exaltation of the people can be a means of controlling them.... If the representative consented, his constituents had to make believe that they had done so." Questioning the authenticity of representative government may seem beyond the pale in America. But ...
NBC/WSJ Poll: Ben Carson New Front-Runner; Takes 6-Point Lead Over Trump
Post Date: 2015-11-02 20:34:36 by BTP Holdings
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NBC/WSJ Poll: Ben Carson New Front-Runner; Takes 6-Point Lead Over Trump Image: NBC/WSJ Poll: Ben Carson New Front-Runner; Takes 6-Point Lead Over Trump By Greg Richter | Monday, 02 Nov 2015 06:49 PM Ben Carson is the new leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, pulling ahead of longtime front-runner Donald Trump by six points, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll reports. It's the first time since June that Trump did not hold the top spot in the survey. Here are the results: •Ben Carson: 29 percent •Donald Trump: 23 percent •Marco Rubio: 11 percent •Ted Cruz: 10 percent •Jeb Bush: 8 percent All other candidates have less ...
One step closer to disarmament
Post Date: 2015-11-02 07:09:40 by BTP Holdings
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One step closer to disarmament Posted on November 2, 2015 by Bob Livingston Authoritarianism or criminal government can never feel secure as long as millions of people own guns. Likewise, when the people have no arms, they have no security and no hope of security. Disarmament first comes by words and psychological warfare, and we are seeing it these days in spades. This week, police chiefs from across the country called for universal background checks for firearms purchases, saying opinion polls consistently show that most Americans support such restrictions. What a clever use of deceptive language and logical fallacy that is. Police chiefs know that there are already “universal ...
Bring Back Jimmy Carter!
Post Date: 2015-10-29 19:17:08 by Ada
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Caught with its pants down in Syria, the US government is making a fool of itself. By attempting to mischaracterize Russia’s actions against ISIS in Syria, Washington has admitted that the terrorists from outside Syria, who are attempting to overthrow the elected government of Syria, are “our guys.” In an interview with Fox “News,” a senior US government official said: “Putin is deliberately targeting our forces. Our guys are fighting for their lives.” Professor Michel Chossudovsky reports that “our guys” includes Western military advisers, intelligence agents and mercenaries recruited from private security companies. The defense official ...
Liberal/Neocon Domination Killing America
Post Date: 2015-10-29 19:01:45 by Ada
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Can America survive another eight years of liberal/neocon domination of Washington, D.C.? The past seven presidential administrations (Bush, Sr. - Obama) and congresses (Republican and Democratic) have taken the United States to the brink of oppression--and maybe destruction. That's 28 years (counting 2016) of continuous domination by liberal Democrats and neocon Republicans. And make no mistake about it: there is virtually NO DIFFERENCE between liberal Democrats and neocon Republicans. They work in tandem. Best buds. Same agenda. Twins. Same parties. Same golf outings. Same clubs. Same money-grubbing. Controlled by the same people. Ad infinitum. Under these liberal Democrats and ...
We Must Oppose Obama’s Escalation in Syria and Iraq!
Post Date: 2015-10-29 06:45:21 by Ada
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On Monday, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to outline a new US military strategy for the Middle East. The Secretary admitted the failure of the US “train and equip” program for rebels in Syria, but instead of taking the appropriate lessons from that failure and get out of the “regime change” business, he announced the opposite. The US would not only escalate its “train and equip” program by removing the requirement that fighters be vetted for extremist ideology, but according to the Secretary the US military would for the first time become directly and overtly involved in combat in Syria and Iraq. As ...
US Neocons Ready to Risk Lives of American Soldiers in Syria – Ron Paul
Post Date: 2015-10-29 00:16:00 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik...Americans must speak out now before it's too late, Ron Paul warns, pointing to the fact that US neocons obsessed about their regime change idea have no scruples about risking the lives of US soldiers and even a major war in the region. Although Defense Secretary Ashton Carter admitted the complete failure of the US "train and equip" program for rebels in Syria, he is not going to give up, former US congressman Ron Paul remarks. "Instead of taking the appropriate lessons from that failure and getting out of the 'regime change' business, he announced the opposite. The US would not only escalate its 'train and equip' program by removing the ...
eGOP MEXCIN MAFIA THREATENS TO CUT OFF RINO WEE-WEES UNLESS TRUMP BOWS OUT
Post Date: 2015-10-28 10:19:05 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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“Foolishly, some candidates think they don’t need the Hispanic vote in the primary, so they pander to the voters with extreme views instead of just showing us who they are,” said Rosario Marin, former treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush, who attended the meeting. “Heed our warning: ‘Don’t expect us to come to your side during the general election. If you are not with us now, we will not be with you then.’” Facing the growing threat of Donald Trump capturing their party’s presidential nomination, Hispanic Republicans are hitting the panic button and taking a unified stand against the bombastic billionaire. “Our ...
House Benghazi Hearings: Too Much Too Late
Post Date: 2015-10-27 05:23:07 by Ada
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Last week the US House of Representatives called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to appear before a select committee looking into the attack on a US facility in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. The attack left four Americans dead, including US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. As might be expected, however, the “Benghazi Committee” hearings have proven not much more than a means for each party to grandstand for political points. In fact, I would call these Congressional hearings “too much, too late.” Four years after the US-led overthrow of the Libyan government – which left the country a wasteland controlled by competing Islamist gangs and militias – ...
Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton was ‘bugging’ Obama to intervene in Libya
Post Date: 2015-10-25 17:59:58 by Ada
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Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Friday said former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had been “bugging” President Obama to intervene in Libya — a development Mr. Paul said has made the region much less stable. Mr. Paul, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, questioned the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, saying that multiple requests for more security apparently went unheeded. Mrs. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic front- runner, testified before the House Select Committee on Benghazi Thursday. “But there’s another story here also: Why were we in Libya and was it a good idea?” Mr. Paul said on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” ...
New Book Ties Former CIA Director To American Corporatocracy, JFK Assassination
Post Date: 2015-10-24 07:41:42 by Ada
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An expose of former CIA Director Allen Dulles by one of the founders of Salon ties him to the rise of corporate power in America, along with some of the agency’s worst deeds. Washington, D.C. — The founder of Salon.com just published a biography of one of the Cold War’s most influential figures, and it contains controversial allegations that tie the CIA to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Almost 60 years after Kennedy’s killing, questions continue to swirl over whether the shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, or was supported by a conspiracy of allies that some believe had government ties. David Talbot’s new book, “The Devil’s ...
Paul Ryan & Proper Work-Family Balance
Post Date: 2015-10-23 18:24:32 by BTP Holdings
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Paul Ryan & Proper Work-Family Balance Posted on October 23, 2015 by Brad Hoppmann Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is ready to be Speaker of the House of Representatives. But apparently he’s not ready to stop being "super dad" in the process. While many Democrats and most Republicans have lauded the prospect of the House Ways and Means Committee chairman and former vice-presidential candidate becoming the next Speaker, Ryan has said he’d only do the job if certain conditions were met. One of those conditions has received a lot of attention, largely because it’s rare among the political elite. That condition is he wants to change the nature of the Speaker job to ...
Ron Paul: Feds Killed Irwin Schiff For Speaking Out
Post Date: 2015-10-22 00:48:22 by Tatarewicz
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InfoWars... The federal government killed tax activist Irwin Schiff because he dared to speak out against constitutional abuses, according to Dr. Ron Paul. “Just recently, when we read about the death of Irwin Schiff, he was actually imprisoned and killed by our government because he spoke out about the unconstitutionality of the way taxes were being collected,” he said Wednesday on the Alex Jones Show. “It wasn’t that he was a violent person, he wasn’t for anarchy or anything else and I don’t think he ever said the statement that there should be no taxes either, but [simply] because he said what the government was doing was unconstitutional and the government ...
This is not a democracy: Behind the Deep State that Obama, Hillary or Trump couldn’t control
Post Date: 2015-10-21 21:22:57 by Ada
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Foreign policy never really changes regardless of who holds the White House. This is why exceptionalism always wins There are two ways to consider the White House’s announcement last week that, no, American troops will no longer withdraw from Afghanistan as previously planned. You can look back over President Obama’s record in such matters or you can face forward and think about what this decision means, or implies, or suggests —or maybe all three—about the next president’s conduct of foreign policy. I do not like what I see in either direction. What anyone who looks carefully and consciously can discern in Obama’s seven years in office are limits. These are ...
RON PAUL: GUN CONTROL MEANS DISARMING THE FEDS
Post Date: 2015-10-21 16:20:19 by Ada
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"I'm for taking the guns away from the bureaucrats in government," he said Dr. Ron Paul said he’s for gun control, if gun control means disarming the out- of-control federal government. “The gun control issue is alive and well and I’m for gun control: I’m for taking the guns away from the bureaucrats in government and for… restricting the gun use by presidents starting wars,” he said Wednesday on the Alex Jones Show. “But no, they [the gun grabbers] will come if there is a [gun] confiscation or a broader registration, people are going to have to make up their minds to not participate in that.” The former congressman also added ...
Ben Carson: Welfare/Warfare Statist
Post Date: 2015-10-20 10:25:07 by Ada
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Not a review of Ben Carson, A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties (Sentinel, 2015), xi + 240 pgs., hardcover. It happens every four years. Candidates for president issue books to sucker people to vote for them using the written word just like they sucker people every day to vote for them using the spoken word. One of the latest “presidential” books is by retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. The book is his second salvo, since he authored with the same publisher last year One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future. I was going to review the book but decided against it after (1) ...
RON PAUL: ENFORCE THE DEBT CEILING AND DEFUND THE WELFARE/WARFARE STATE!
Post Date: 2015-10-19 09:27:19 by Ada
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Cutting up its credit card is the only way to make Congress reduce spending The US Treasury’s recent announcement that the government will reach the debt ceiling on November 3 means Congress will soon be debating raising the government’s borrowing limit again. Any delay in, or opposition to, raising the debt ceiling will inevitably be met with hand-wringing over Congress’ alleged irresponsibility. But the real irresponsible act would be for Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Cutting up its credit card is the only way to make Congress reduce spending. Anyone who doubts this should listen to the bipartisan whining over how sequestration has so drastically reduced spending ...
Jeb Bush: You can't trust Donald Trump with our nuclear codes
Post Date: 2015-10-18 18:02:46 by BTP Holdings
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Jeb Bush: You can't trust Donald Trump with our nuclear codes by Dylan Stableford October 18, 2015 Jeb Bush escalated his ongoing war of words against Donald Trump, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the Republican frontrunner and former “Celebrity Apprentice” star is approaching foreign policy like he’s still on a reality show. “He’s not taking the responsibility, the possibility of being president of the United States really seriously,” Bush said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “For him, it looks as though he’s an actor playing a role of the candidate for president. Not ...
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