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Latest Articles: Ron Paul
Pro-Life Means Anti-Drone
Post Date: 2012-10-30 07:26:08 by Ada
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If life is sacred, how can we justify the random killing of innocent children? My pro-life position is simple: Life is sacred. Life is so sacred that for it to be taken there must be an extremely good reason—and there are few good reasons. Convenience is certainly not a good reason. This innate sanctity of human life is something virtually all civilized people recognize despite one’s politics. Even those who identify as pro-choice are only comfortable with abortion to the degree that they can downplay or dismiss the humanity of the subject at hand. Barack Obama has never claimed to be pro-life. As the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney writes: “President Obama has killed ...
Racial Views: Poll Shows Majority Harbor Prejudice Against Blacks
Post Date: 2012-10-27 08:56:12 by Ada
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WASHINGTON -- Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not. Those views could cost President Barack Obama votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some Americans' more favorable views of blacks. Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 whether those feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked respondents about racist attitudes, or through an experimental test that measured implicit views toward race ...
Billionaires take lead in conservatives' self-pity parade
Post Date: 2012-10-22 13:19:49 by tom007
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Billionaires take lead in conservatives' self-pity parade Obama could have "changed the direction of the American economy", just as FDR did during the Great Depression. Last Modified: 21 Oct 2012 13:43 inShare8 "If Obama had done the sensible thing and followed Roosevelt's example, then the billionaires' anger would be at least be comprehensible without reference to the pattern of hyperbolic conservative self-pity," says author [Reuters] America's billionaires are up in arms! Sure, they've made out like bandits, while tens of millions of Americans are still suffering - out of work, in bankruptcy, or owing more on their mortgages than their houses ...
Libertarians Should Vote for… No One
Post Date: 2012-10-22 08:12:22 by Ada
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In yet another appeal from Republicans, Brady Cremeens, writing for The Right Sphere, is urging libertarians to set aside their differences and vote for Mitt Romney. The piece is so full of political clichés about "American prosperity and strength," how destructive another Obama term would be, and how Romney "gives us the chance" to save the republic, that I got half way through it before realizing he wasn't writing tongue-in-cheek. It seems he actually believes what he writes, or at least makes a pretty decent attempt to convince us that he's serious. I'm certainly not the first to point this out, but it's important to note how utterly ...
Sham Debates and Endless War: The Shame of Our Political Discourse
Post Date: 2012-10-21 10:56:32 by christine
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Here’s something I’d like to see this campaign season: our two major party candidates debating our wars rather than ignoring them. Both President Obama and Governor Romney prefer to praise the troops rather than to address the tragic consequences of continuing military action in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The latter, when they’re addressed at all, are reduced to sound bites and homilies about the need to “stay the course” and “support our troops.” Praising our military while ignoring the wars we send them to is perhaps the biggest shame of American political discourse today (and that is indeed saying a lot). Think about it. The eleventh anniversary of our ...
Peace Is the Ticket to Victory
Post Date: 2012-10-19 08:09:57 by Ada
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As the Obama campaign takes up the antiwar mantle, will Romney double down on interventionism? Usually, not always, the peace party wins. Gen. Sherman’s burning of Atlanta and March to the Sea ensured Abraham Lincoln’s re-election in 1864. William McKinley, with his triumph over Spain and determination to pacify and hold the Philippines, easily held off William Jennings Bryan in 1900. Yet Woodrow Wilson won in 1916 on the slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War!” And Dwight Eisenhower won a landslide with his declaration about the stalemate in Harry Truman’s war: “I shall go to Korea.” Richard Nixon pledged in 1968 that “new leadership will end the war and ...
GOP unleashes attacks on Libertarian presidential candidate
Post Date: 2012-10-18 20:13:22 by Ada
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Recent polls suggest Republican nominee Mitt Romney is narrowing in on US President Barack Obama, but the incumbent isn’t the only one posing a challenge to the GOP. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is also giving Republicans a run for their money. Johnson, the two-time governor of New Mexico and former contender for the GOP endorsement in this year’s race, has all but ended his attempt to win next month’s presidential vote. Gov. Johnson forfeited his race against Romney and other Republican Party frontrunners earlier this year, only to re-enter the contest as the Libertarian Party’s nominee. Now with Election Day nearing and a good number of Americans unsure of ...
Who Is Responsible for the Mess in Libya?
Post Date: 2012-10-18 08:30:13 by Ada
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How many times have you heard the truism that in modern-day America the cover-up is often as troubling as the crime? That is becoming quite apparent in the case of the death of Chris Stevens, the former U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens and three State Department employees were murdered in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last month, on September 11th. About an hour before the murders, the ambassador, who usually resides in the U.S. embassy in Tripoli but was visiting local officials and staying at the consulate in Benghazi, had just completed dinner there with a colleague, whom he personally walked to the front gate of the compound. In the next three hours, hundreds of persons ...
Obama Won Round 2 — Will It Matter?
Post Date: 2012-10-17 06:21:56 by Ada
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What a difference a disaster makes. Where last week President Obama was listless, passive, crotchety, tonight in New York he had a noticeable spring in his step. A swagger, even. In what may turn out to be the most replayed snippet of all three debates, Obama invited Mitt Romney to attack him over the administration’s handling of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. “Please proceed, governor,” he said, cockily. Romney bungled the attack — the low-information viewer was led to believe Obama and his staff were never in doubt the attack was planned and perpetrated by terrorists — and even managed to praise the president for taking responsibility for ...
Vote for Liberty by Not Voting
Post Date: 2012-10-16 08:58:33 by Ada
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"He may not be perfect, but at least he is better than Obama." Even some former Ron Paul supporters have given this line as an excuse for supporting Mitt Romney for the United States Presidency. The line betrays a deep misunderstanding of what liberty means. As many libertarians have already pointed out, Romney is not nearly as different from Obama as is commonly supposed. But more importantly, in some vital ways he is actually worse. The "better than Obama" way of thinking implicitly throws the entire anti-war aspect of libertarianism under the bus. The thinking runs as follows: "Romney may be expected to have an even more imperialist foreign policy than Obama, ...
Ron Paul Will Not Endorse Romney Because He Rightly Thinks America is a One Party System
Post Date: 2012-10-14 19:13:19 by christine
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Ron Paul is the most consistent politician in D.C. After all, the congressman from Texas has been saying it for months: he will NOT be endorsing GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Yet, the media still won't accept it. CNBC's Larry Kudlow asked him in May. CNN's Wolf Blitzer brought it up in June. Fox's Neil Cavuto tried again in August. And then, on Thursday, CNBC's Jackie Deangelis popped the question once more: "Are you ready to endorse Mitt Romney?" Paul's answer to everyone? "No." But this time, he cleared up his endorsement with an explanation as to why he won't favor either candidate ... and it was pretty blunt. First, Paul called out both ...
Nobel Hypocrisy Wins Again
Post Date: 2012-10-13 03:27:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Nobel Hypocrisy Wins Again by Stephen Lendman Call it a rite of fall. Nobel hypocrisy shows up annually. It came again this year. The only surprise was which disreputable honoree would win. A surprise of sorts indeed. War criminals often become Peace Prize winners. This year a political/economic union won. Perhaps honoring Wall Street and neoliberal/war mongering organizations awaits. Or maybe Republicans and Democrats for causing so much harm globally. Expect anything from Nobel Committee members. They represent wealth, power, privilege, imperial lawlessness, and war, not peace. Perhaps they believe war is peace. They'll have to explain why scoundrels regularly win their highest ...
Let Gary Johnson Debate
Post Date: 2012-10-11 08:15:06 by Ada
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President Obama has been a failure. On his watch, the American economy has significantly deteriorated largely because he has stifled free market forces by over-regulating them and because he has laden taxpayers with debt. Those two factors alone – the federal government increasing the cost of doing business by telling businesses from physicians to major industries how to do their work, and the federal government spending trillions it doesn’t have and pushing the debts onto future generations – are enough to sink any economy. In this arena, Mitt Romney has it half-right. He does understand that only free market forces can produce prosperity, but he fails to see that when ...
A Dream Dies, but the Beat Goes On
Post Date: 2012-10-11 07:48:37 by Ada
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I am still trying to recover from the Republican Party’s overwhelming failure to understand that only Ron Paul was speaking good sense about the dismal state of U.S. foreign policy. Depending on whom you listen to, however, one might almost think in spite of all evidence to the contrary that the revolution is still going on and just one more tweak will deliver a Brave New World. That is because hardly a day passes without yet another email from the various organizations that are seeking to cash in on the Ron Paul legacy, demonstrating that they have the moxie to continue the fight. The most recent email from John Tate and Campaign for Liberty pledged to do something about drones, the ...
Obama Spin Reveals Elite Roots
Post Date: 2012-10-09 08:49:57 by Ada
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We track power elite dominant social themes large and small. As part of this effort, we've uncovered what we believe to be patterns of "directed history" leading toward ever-bigger government at both national and international levels. Elites love government because they control society via mercantilism, the use of public power to enhance private advantages. As the US has evolved along increasingly imperial lines, mercantilism has grown more obvious and intrusive. Over US$3 trillion is administered via government programs and bureaucrats. With so much money at stake, the political process itself has been increasingly rationalized. In many ways US Inc. is a large business, ...
Ron Paul Suggests He'll Vote For Gary Johnson
Post Date: 2012-10-07 18:52:11 by christine
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In a Fox Business interview Wednesday, Rep. Ron Paul refused to say who he was planning on voting for — but ruled out voting for Mitt Romney or President Obama, leaving only one plausible option. "I obviously haven't announced in support for Romney, so that means that's very unlikely," Paul said. "And I don't think anybody think's I'm going to vote for Obama. So it's back to that frustration level in not seeing a dramatic choice in how the system works." "Tonight there's a debate going on," Paul said. "And if you come to the conclusion that the candidates aren't all that different, why do we have to just listen to ...
A Whole New Ballgame
Post Date: 2012-10-05 08:46:20 by Ada
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Romney's debate performance puts the race back in play. Mitt Romney on Wednesday night turned in the finest debate performance of any candidate of either party in the 52 years since Richard Nixon faced John F. Kennedy, with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan’s demolition of Jimmy Carter in 1980. But where Reagan won with style and quips–”There you go again”–and his closing line, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Romney crushed Obama on both substance and style. Mitt was like a contender so keyed up by his title shot that, between rounds, he could not sit on his stool, but stood in his corner to rush out and re-engage the ...
Louis Farrakhan gives a shout out to Ron Paul "who is like a man crying in the wilderness"
Post Date: 2012-10-04 17:05:14 by Itistoolate
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Louis Farrakhan gives a shout out to Ron Paul "who is like a man crying in the wilderness" just ran across this today - Louis Farrakhan talks about the Federal Reserve, the national debt and mentions Ron Paul (@2:52). He also talks about the ADL, CFR, Bilderburg, NWO, Trilaterial Commission, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, etc. Poster Comment:I know this is old but it is still as good as when President Jackson was in office, when Abraham Lincoln was shot, and also when JFK was shot after doing an 'end run' around the Fed. Have you noticed how the MSM is NOT covering L F any more?
The First Presidential Debate: A Choice or an Echo?
Post Date: 2012-10-04 06:00:52 by Ada
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I tried to live-blog this thing, but just didn’t have the energy. So here is my strongest impression of the debate overall: Mitt Romney wants the audience to believe that he and Barack Obama disagree profoundly on fundamental philosophy, but disagree only very marginally about policy. Over and over again, Mitt Romney would attack the President on general principles, then the President would say, in so many words, “well, the implications of that view are” and start listing policy implications, and Romney would retort: no, I don’t believe any of that, in fact that stuff you say I oppose is stuff I agree with, and that stuff you say I support is stuff I absolutely will ...
The Obama Fambly's Extravagant Lifestyle Costing Taxpayers $1.4 Billion A Year
Post Date: 2012-10-04 00:52:41 by X-15
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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in. Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama ...
Romney's Surrender On Amnesty—It's Not A DREAM, It's A Nightmare
Post Date: 2012-10-03 10:30:13 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Romney's Surrender On Amnesty—It's Not A DREAM, It's A Nightmare By Peter Brimelow on October 2, 2012 at 11:46pm The first thing to grasp about Romney’s surrender to Obama’s Administrative DREAMnesty: •It envisages an upcoming Amnesty. Romney told The Denver Post “The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid. I'm not going to take something that they've purchased," Romney said. "Before those visas have expired we will have the full immigration reform plan that I've proposed. …Romney said in a sit-down ...
Deflowering the ‘Rose Revolution’
Post Date: 2012-10-03 08:19:46 by Ada
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The fall of an aspiring dictator Despite the best efforts of Georgian strongman Mikheil Saakashvili and his ruling party, Georgian voters have delivered a stunning victory to challenger Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire who vowed to tamp down tensions with Russia and free up an increasingly authoritarian system. Saakashvili pulled out all the stops in his campaign to neutralize the first credible political challenge to his rule: his initial response was to revoke Ivanishvili’s citizenship. When that raised eyebrows in the West — and a storm of protest in Georgia — Saakashvili backtracked, and turned to other methods. The Georgian opposition, Georgian Dream, was subjected ...
Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Post Date: 2012-10-02 08:01:21 by Ada
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Under Obama, Democrats have embraced the national security state. During a scene in the 2006 Oscar-winning movie “The Departed,” Martin Sheen’s cop character points at government agents who are working with police during a sting operation and remarks: “All cell phone signals are under surveillance, due to the courtesy of our federal friends over there.” Alec Baldwin’s cop character then slaps the back of a fellow officer in glee, exclaiming: “Patriot Act, Patriot Act! I love it, I love it, I love it!” I considered this scene to be a Hollywood liberal dig at then-President Bush, whose Patriot Act legislation was considered an assault on civil ...
Ross Perot: No 2012 endorsement
Post Date: 2012-10-01 09:50:19 by Ada
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Perot is an equal-opportunity critic, unimpressed with both presidential candidates. Ross Perot, the billionaire who shook up the 1992 presidential campaign, has largely remained silent since his emergence on the nation’s political stage nearly two decades ago and as he emerges from the shadows (in part to drum up interest in his forthcoming autobiography) he’s remaining silent about one more thing: The current top candidates running for office. Pressed by USA Today’s Richard Wolf to endorse a candidate, Perot declined, despite the fact that “members of his family have donated almost exclusively to Republicans in recent years.” Continue Reading Text Size -+reset ...
Race for the White House, 2012: Whom to Root For?
Post Date: 2012-10-01 08:22:38 by Ada
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Do you even have to ask? In September of 1992, as the presidential election pitting George H. W. Bush against Bill Clinton loomed, libertarian theorist and all-around political junkie Murray Rothbard wrote a piece, “Making Our Way Back to the President,” in which he explained the key difference between voting for (i.e. politically supporting) a candidate, and “rooting for” one: “Whom should we cheer for on Election Day? Whom should we hope wins the election? Voting is a matter of personal conscience, and can be for one of many minor candidates or for no one at all; rooting on who should win is a different problem, because regardless of who you or I vote for, or ...
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