Jun

30

Ron Paul - “It might just be that freedom is popular”

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | Leave a Comment

Kansas City rally, June 15

Jun

29

Ron Paul on Mickelson in the Morning

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | 1 Comment

Ron Paul was a guest on Mickelson in the Morning (News Radio 1040 in Des Moines, Iowa) on June 28th.
Jan Mickelson runs a great radio talk show, highly recommended. Direct download podcasts available here.

On June 20th, Kent Snyder from the Ron Paul 2008 Campaign was on with Ed Failor of “Iowans for Tax Relief”. Great show, listen to the fireworks.

Jun

29

Kick ‘em when they’re down

Filed Under REAL ID | Leave a Comment

From Perry Willis, Communications Director at Downsize DC

Subject: Repealing the REAL ID Act

Oh, those poor Senators. They’re really traumatized. They heard from far too many of their constituents over the immigration bill. The news is full of quotes about it. Senators feel assaulted, intimidated.

Don’t you feel sorry for them?

Maybe we should give them a break? Go easy on them? Let them catch their breath?

Naugh.

Let’s pound them again.

Just when they think the beating is over, and they’ve let down their guard, here comes another blow . . .

Congress needs to repeal the REAL ID Act. Americans don’t want it. It was passed in a dishonest way, by combining it with a completely un-related bill. The states are rejecting it. New Hampshire is the latest to vote not to comply. But . . .

The longer we let this law stay on the books the more likely it is to ensnare us. We dodged a bullet with the immigration bill, which could have made the REAL ID national identification system more entrenched.

Congress thinks they’re done with this issue, now that immigration legislation is tabled for a good long while, but we must disabuse them of this notion. They aren’t done until we tell them they’re done (they work for us remember), and we won’t be satisfied until the REAL ID Act is repealed.

Please write Congress today and tell them that. You can do so here.

Jun

29

Delegitimizing the Welfare State

Filed Under Economics, National, Socialism | Leave a Comment

Great article by by Richard M. Ebeling, President of the Foundation for Economic Education

Ending the Welfare State Through the Power of Private Action

Jun

28

One Out of Every 133 U.S. Residents are in Jail

Filed Under National | 1 Comment

There is progress in the former constitutional republic called the United States of America, the country that has the highest percentage of incarcerated residents in the world has broken its own record.

From this ABC News article:

“The nation’s inmate population is at an all-time high, and has seen its largest year-to-year increase in six years, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report.

The findings, examining the time frame from July 2005 to June 2006, totaled up more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in the nation’s federal and state prisons and local jails. That includes an increase of 62,037, or 2.8 percent, compared with numbers available in 2005. In other words, one out of every 133 U.S. residents is behind bars.”

What Ayn Rand wrote in fiction has become a reality today:

“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”

We live in a fantastically surreal country today, where justice seems to have now become devoid of basic common sense and blind to any rational understanding of justice at all in many cases. Laws are arbitrary like in a totalitarian police state, idiotic policies like zero tolerance can land even children in legal troubles for committing non-crimes. The vast number of inmates in state and federal prisons are not violent felons, but most are imprisoned for offenses which involved neither harm, nor the threat of harm to any victim.

Take this miscarriage of justice for instance, there was a time in America when something like this would not raise the eyebrow of prosecutors or the courts, but would be considered an embarrassing family matter to be worked out privately.

Even pets can be subject to incarceration by some overarching government agency demanding the owner comply with some broad interpretation of a law before releasing his pet. Pete Georgoutsos, the owner of Spartacus, a mastiff who escaped from his vehicle after a failed attempt by some criminal who broke into his truck trying to steal the dog, found Spartacus at a city animal shelter 5 hours later. The animal shelter refused to give the dog back to his owner until he agreed to have his dog sterilized. After 5 weeks in the dog big house, a city court judge finally ordered the pet released to his owner with all parts intact. Even so, Georgoutsos had to pay a $10,000 bond to get his dog back!

The damage that is being done to persons and families in this country, both emotionally and financially by an out of control legal system is incalculable, not to mention the enormous cost to taxpayers who have to foot the bill for the gulag state.

Jun

27

Ron Paul - #1 in site traffic market share for May

Filed Under Republican Party, Ron Paul | 2 Comments

Clinton Surpasses Obama in Site Traffic Race, Paul Rockets to First

› › › ClickZ News

By Kate Kaye | June 27, 2007

Hillary Clinton overtook Barack Obama in May, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani held steady and Ron Paul rocketed from fifth place to first. That’s according to Hitwise data showing the ebb and flow of traffic to the official sites of the Democratic and Republican presidential primary candidates.

READ ON

Jun

27

Ron Paul on G4TV “Attack of the Show”

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | Leave a Comment

Part 1

Part 2

Jun

26

Ron Paul - Rights of Taxpayers is Missing Element in Stem Cell Debate

Filed Under National, Ron Paul | 2 Comments

Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column, June 25, 2007

June 25, 2007

The debate in Washington has again turned to federal funding of stem cell research, with President Bush moving to veto legislation passed recently by Congress. Those engaged in this debate tend to split into warring camps claiming exclusive moral authority to decide the issue once and for all.

On one side, those who support the President’s veto tend to argue against embryonic stem cell research, pointing to the individual rights of the embryo being discarded for use in research. On the other hand are those who argue the embryo will be discarded any way, and the research may provide valuable cures for people suffering from terrible illnesses.

In Washington, these two camps generally advocate very different policies. The first group wants a federal ban on all such research, while the latter group expects the research to be federally-subsidized. Neither side in this battle seems to consider the morality surrounding the rights of federal taxpayers.

Our founding fathers devised a system of governance that limited federal activity very narrowly. In doing so, they intended to keep issues such as embryonic stem cell research entirely out of Washington’s hands. They believed issues such as this should be tackled by free people acting freely in their churches and medical associations, and in the marketplace that would determine effective means of research. When government policies on this issue were to be developed, our founders would have left them primarily to state legislators to decide in accord with community standards.

Their approach was also the only one consistent with a concern for the rights and freedom of all individuals, and for limiting negative impacts upon taxpayers. When Washington subsidizes something, it does so at the direct expense of the taxpayer. Likewise, when Washington bans something, it generally requires a federal agency and a team of federal agents— often heavily-armed federal agents—to enforce the ban. These agencies become the means by which the citizenry is harassed by government intrusions. Yet it is the mere existence of these agencies, and the attendant costs associated with operating them, that leads directly to the abuse of the taxpayers’ pocketbooks.

If Congress attempts to override the President’s veto, I will support the President. As a physician, I am well aware that certain stem cells have significant medical potential and do not raise the moral dilemmas presented by embryonic stem cell research. My objection is focused on the issue of federal funding. Unfortunately, in the Washington environment of “either subsidize it, or else ban it,” it is unlikely there will be much focus given to the issue of federal funding. Instead, virulent charges will fly regarding who is willing to sacrifice the lives and health of others to make a political point.

Only when Washington comes to understand that our founders expressly intended for our federal government to be limited in scope, will policy questions such as this be rightly understood. But that understanding will not come until the people demand their elected officials act in accordance with these principles.

Jun

21

Ron Paul on Bloomberg TV - June 20, 2007

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | Leave a Comment

Jun

20

Ron Paul on MSNBC’s “Super Tuesday”

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | 2 Comments

Interviewed by Chris Jansing.
No, he didn’t appear on Chris Matthews as was originally reported.

Next Page →