May

9

Ripp’in on AmeriCorps

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Jim Bovard, author of his latest and greatest book Attention Deficit Democracy rips AmeriCorps a new one.

The National Service Illusion
JAMES BOVARD

National Service is one of the hottest causes of presidential candidates. Both Barack Obama and John McCain are gung-ho for expanding Americorps to hire a quarter million people to perform federally-orchestrated good deeds. Former presidential candidate Senator Chris Dodd wanted to make community service mandatory for high school students and boost AmeriCorps to a million members. John Edwards also favored making national service mandatory.

But does America have a shortage of government workers?

AmeriCorps is the epitome of contemporary federal good intentions. AmeriCorps, which currently has roughly 75,000 paid recruits, has been very popular in Washington in part because it puts a smiley face on Uncle Sam at a time when many government policies are deeply unpopular.

READ ON at the Ripon Forum


May

6

Ron Paul - A Brilliant Interview on CNN

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Of course it’s because Ron Paul did most of the talking.

May

6

Ron Paul - Big Government Responsible for High Gas Prices

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
May 5, 2008

In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts of the country, gasoline costs as much as $4 per gallon. Some politicians claim that the way to reduce gas prices is by expanding the government’s power to regulate prices and control the supply of gasoline. For example, the House of Representatives has even passed legislation subjecting gas stations owners to criminal penalties if they charge more than a federal bureaucrat deems appropriate. Proponents of these measures must have forgotten the 1970s, when government controls on the oil industry resulted in gas lines and shortages. It was only after President Reagan lifted federal price controls that the gas lines disappeared.

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May

6

Wind Bags on the Gas Tax

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Obama blames fuel efficiency standards for the high price of gasoline - What a dummy!

McCain wants a gas tax holiday - How about permanent holiday Johnny boy. All you gotta do is eliminate some of those useless government agencies and programs to pay for it. But then again you were never very committed to small government anyway, just temporarily while there’s an election going on.

Hillary wants a gas tax holiday too but then she wants a “windfall tax” on oil companies to pay for a gas tax holiday. In other words she wants a temporary tax holiday (only because she wants to look like she cares about the little people during this election season) but wants to tax us all more and permanently by taxing the oil companies first. I guess her followers don’t know that any increase in the cost of doing business always ends up being passed on to the consumer. A company has to be able to compete and make profits in the market for its owners, that would be the stockholders. Hillary is just another bull shit artist admired by economic dummies.

Apr

28

Ron Paul on Politicizing Pain

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
April 28, 2008

K.K. Forss does not claim medical marijuana solves all his problems. His pain from a ruptured disc in his neck is debilitating. He is unable to go to work or to the First Baptist Church he used to attend because of the pain and muscle spasms. Taxpayers through Medicare spend over $18,000 a year on his various medications. Half of those drugs are strong narcotics. The other half address the various side-effects brought on by the first half, such as nausea, heartburn, heart palpitations, difficulty sleeping, and muscle spasms.

No, marijuana would not completely address all his pain, but it made a tremendous difference in the quality of his life when he tried it for over a year. It helped him regain 38 pounds he had lost. It calmed his muscle spasms and helped him sleep. In short, it alleviated many side effects and greatly reduced his need for other expensive medications. Mr. Forss estimates that being allowed to use medical marijuana would save taxpayers at least $12,000 a year in medications he would no longer need. He would also be able to work occasionally and attend some church services.

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Apr

28

Rumpus in Reno as Ron Paul Delegates Dominate

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Paul spokesman Jeff Greenspan said the walkout was a first in his 21-year career in politics. “I’ve seen factions walk out, I’ve never seen a party walk out,” he said. “I’ve never even heard of that.”

Chaos over Paul cuts short gathering
BY ANJEANETTE DAMON • adamon@rgj.com • April 27, 2008

After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention Saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention.

Read on at The Reno Gazette-Journal

Convention reveals party in disarray
By ANJEANETTE DAMON • adamon@rgj.com • April 27, 2008

The takeover of the GOP’s state convention by a passionate faction dedicated to a minority candidate reflects deep problems for the Nevada Republican Party and perhaps U.S. Sen. John McCain in the general election, analysts said today.

Read on at The Reno Gazette-Journal

Ron Paul’s rousing speech at the Nevada convention

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Apr

27

Thomas Jefferson and the forces of reaction

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In this clip from HBO’s miniseries “John Adams”, Thomas Jefferson expressed his fears about what might come out of the constitutional convention in Philadelphia. Always the champion of small decentralized government he feared whatever the federal constitution became, “it could prove a breach in the integrity of our revolutionary ideas through which would pour the forces of reaction”, and reinstitute the tyranny’s that they had fought to destroy. Sadly, he would be proven correct as we see today. The constitution has be trampled upon, its laws reinterpreted to centralize political power in Washington D.C. at the expense of our liberty and property.

Apr

26

Ron Paul vs Center for American Progress

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Ron Paul on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company about abolishing the FED.

The progressive think tanker, Faiz Shakir’s argument is full of holes and bad history. It seemed evident to all except Shakir. According to Shakir we have had “pretty good stability in our financial system” over the last 70 years because of the FED. Nothing could be farther from the truth as Dr. Paul points out.

Apr

22

Jerry Day on media suppression of Presidential Candidate Ron Paul

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L.A. Area Emmy Award winner Jerry Day of Jerry Day Productions explains.

Apr

22

Ron Paul - The Double Trouble of Taxation

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
April 21, 2008

Taxes were on the forefront of many Americans’ minds this week as they scrambled to meet the April 15th deadline to file their returns. Tax policy in this country hurts taxpayers twice – once when they pay taxes, and then when the government spends the money. Americans are sick and tired of the financial burden and the endless forms to fill out. To add insult to injury, after collecting this money the government does some very detrimental things to the economy.

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