Jul

31

Ron Paul’s Statement of Faith

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Everybody should read this, whatever your religion, or lack thereof, whatever your political persuasion or lack thereof.

Statement of Faith
By Rep. Ron Paul, MD.
The Covenant News ~ July 21, 2007

We live in times of great uncertainty when men of faith must stand up for our values and our traditions lest they be washed away in a sea of fear and relativism. As you likely know, I am running for President of the United States, and I am asking for your support.

I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the election season I find to be distasteful. But for those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do. I know, as you do, that our freedoms come not from man, but from God. My record of public service reflects my reverence for the Natural Rights with which we have been endowed by a loving Creator.

I have worked tirelessly to defend and restore those rights for all Americans, born and unborn alike. The right of an innocent, unborn child to life is at the heart of the American ideal of liberty. My professional and legislative record demonstrates my strong commitment to this pro-life principle.

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Jul

31

FreedomWorks Republican Straw Poll - July 31st - August 2nd

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“FreedomWorks is conducting this nationwide online straw poll to measure where the candidates stand among our members. The GOP Strawpoll ends at midnight, August 2nd, and the totals will be reported back to FreedomWorks members and the national media. The FreedomWorks Democrat Strawpoll will be held the second week of August.”

Here’s the link

Jul

30

Ron Paul - The Fear Factor

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column

July 30, 2007

While fear itself is not always the product of irrationality, once experienced it tends to lead away from reason, especially if the experience is extreme in duration or intensity. When people are fearful they tend to be willing to irrationally surrender their rights.

Thus, fear is a threat to rational liberty. The psychology of fear is an essential component of those who would have us believe we must increasingly rely on the elite who manage the apparatus of the central government.

The statement “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin. It is clear, people seek out safety and security when they are in a state of fear, and it is the result of this psychological state that often leads to the surrender of liberty.
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Jul

26

The Paul Numbers

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Picking Apart the Poll (Paul) Numbers

by James Ostrowski

The Ron Paul earthquake has turned into a snowball rolling downhill, gathering mass and speed daily. Press attention is up, money is flowing in and smears are missing their mark. His Republican opponents juggle miscellaneous political problems while Fred Thompson auditions for Hamlet:

And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

Only one obstacle remains before Ron Paul is deemed a real contender and we can get onto the issues: the opinion polls.


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Jul

25

Ron Paul - Local Story on MyFox 26 Houston

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Jul

25

Mencken’s Law

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In the early 20th century, H.L. Mencken as a young police reporter in Baltimore, was put up as a witness to testify before a police board in which two policemen were up on charges of not enforcing a rather frivolous law “against dance halls that paid their female interns commissions on the drinks they sold”. Mencken noted in his writings at other times as a reporter he knew that Baltimore cops would just ignore victimless crimes.

“The poor flatfeet were unquestionable guilty, for I had discussed the matter with them in the place, but I managed to sophisticate my testimony with so many ifs and buts that it went for nothing and they were acquitted. I made up my mind at once that my true and natural allegiance was to the Devil’s party, and it has been my firm belief ever since that all persons who devote themselves to forcing virtue on their fellow men deserve nothing better than kicks in the pants. Years later I put that belief into a proposition which I ventured to call Mencken’s Law, to wit:

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

The moral theologians, unhappily, have paid no heed to this contribution to their science, and so Mencken’s Law must wait for recognition until the dawn of a more enlightened age.”

Now that’s a good law.

Jul

25

Jim Bovard - How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home

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Future of Freedom Foundation
Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties
At the Hyatt Reston, June 1-4, 2007

Part 1 of 6

View the other parts here

Jul

23

Ron Paul - Exposing the True Isolationists

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column

July 23, 2007

Last week, I wrote about the ideology of globalism and how it underlies certain government policies. Managed trade agreements, international military adventurism, and amnesty for illegal immigrants all emanate from this ideology.

Yet globalism has a consequence that is, if we are to believe the rhetoric of its greatest proponents, entirely unintended. Globalists often label those of us who resist their schemes as “isolationist.” Yet it is, somewhat remarkably, the globalists themselves who promote policies that isolate our nation from the rest of the world.

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Jul

23

Fueling Global Poverty

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I always come to the conclusion that the biggest threat to human civilization is not the latest doom sayer craze like the current one called “global warming”, but unbridled government and its never ending idiotic solutions to problems real or imagined that will finally do the human race in and send it back to the stone age.

I think Sabine Barnhart is spot on in Global Poverty via the Ethanol Industry. After all, we can see the ill effects of the corn ethanol scam already in our daily lives and other people around the globe are feeling it too. The question is, how many unintended consequences and how much misery, starvation and death worldwide will occur from this very real man-made disaster in progress. Like she says, “Just don’t blame capitalism if and when it comes.” There is nothing capitalistic about an ethanol industry subsidized by government theft.

Jul

22

Spartanburg & Greenville - The Ron Paul Revolution in S. Carolina

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Spartanburg Event - 9 Parts On YouTube

Spartanburg Herald-Journal:

Paul stands tall with talk on freedom

A little-known Texas congressman seeking the Republican nomination for president visited Spartanburg Saturday and seemed to arrive with all the makings of rock-star candidate for his party - despite low polling, little name recognition and a relatively small campaign staff.

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Greenville Rally - 11 Parts On YouTube

The Greenville News:

Paul’s crowd here spans the South
People travel hundreds of miles to hear candidate’s message of regaining liberty

A crowd of approximately 500 greeted Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Saturday. They came from at least six other states — Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia — according to interviews and a check of license plates in the parking lot.

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