Dec

31

Ron Paul and Earmarks - Understanding federal spending

Filed Under Economics, National, Republican Party, Ron Paul | Leave a Comment

This is a great article that can give you a better understanding of why Ron Paul’s approach to fixing the corrupt system of federal spending doesn’t begin with dealing with earmarks, but deals with the greater problems that cause earmarks.

In Defense of Ron Paul’s Earmarks
by Eric Phillips

One of the questions asked of Dr. Ron Paul after his speech to the Robert Taft Club came from a guy I met at an Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) conference the previous summer. At that event, he was apoplectic after Randy Barnett’s talk, in which the supposed Rothbardian outlined his justification of the state. We’ll never be accepted by average Americans if we don’t tailor our message and moderate our demands, my fellow IHS alum argued. I talked to him later in the week and he explained to me that while he was sympathetic to the free market, he considered himself a libertarian chiefly because he was a consistent social liberal who despised the restrictive social atmosphere that conservatives advocate. A beltway libertarian if there ever was one!

“Congressman, I have tremendous respect for you,” the IHS alum averred, “but I was shocked to read in a Reason Magazine profile that you actually stuff earmarks into appropriation bills just like every other member of Congress and I thought you were different, sir, ah, you of course vote against the bill, but I was curious how you could justify stuffing earmarks just like every other member of Congress” (see here at 4:25). Dr. Paul’s response is clear and convincing, but I’d like to go into more depth here. The issue is complicated and while earmark critics have some reasonable points, Dr. Paul’s earmarking is ultimately not at odds with his philosophy.

READ ON

Dec

28

Judge Napolitano Convicts Lincoln and Bush

Filed Under Andrew P. Napolitano, History, Republican Party, Ron Paul | 7 Comments

Dec

27

Ron Paul’s “American Freedom Agenda Act” - Support it!

Filed Under National, Ron Paul | 1 Comment

    Repeal the “Military Commissions Act of 2007” and thereby restore the ancient right of habeas corpus and end legally sanctioned torture by U.S. government agents
    Restore the ”Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act” (FISA) and thereby outlaw warrantless spying on American citizens by the President of the United States
    Give Congress standing in court to challenge the President’s use of “signing statements” as a means to avoid executing the nation’s laws
    Make it illegal for government agents to kidnap people and send them abroad to be tortured by foreign governments
    Provide legal protection to journalists who expose wrong-doing by the Federal government
    Prohibit the use of secret evidence to label groups or individuals as terrorists for the purpose of criminal or civil sanctions.

Tell your representatives what they need to do at Downsize DC

Dec

27

Ron Paul vs. The Stand In Ignoramus

Filed Under History, Republican Party, Ron Paul, Thomas DiLorenzo | Leave a Comment

Raw Story has the video of David Shuster, MSNBC’s military analyst Col. Jack Jacobs and Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe with Ron Paul calling in to face Schuster’s inquisition on Lincoln heresies.
Ron Paul who finds this diversionary dialog a tiresome distraction from the issues that face us today suggests to Schuster and Jacobs that if they want to know something about the history of Lincoln and the Civil War that they should start by reading Tom DiLorenzo’s book The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War and like get back to me when you have a clue.
Ah! but these MSNBC BS artists won’t have any of that book learnin stuff, Jacobs especially made it clear that he won’t read anything but war is good, peace is bad books.

Thomas DiLorenzo writes this morning on the LRC blog:

Joe Scarborough’s stand-in on the “Morning Joe” television program, David Shuster, once again has tried to smear Ron Paul, and once again reveals his ignorance in doing so. This morning Ron called in to correct the lies that various neocons like Shuster have been spreading about what he said to Tim Russert about Lincoln and his war. Shuster adamantly claimed that Ron had “embarrassed himself” by claiming that Lincoln did not invade his own country to free the slaves. But it is Shuster who is embarrassingly ignorant of his own history. In fact, it would be hard to find a single American historian with any credibility who would argue that in 1861 an invasion of the Southern states was launched to free the slaves. Shuster is not only unaware of what is written in my book, The Real Lincoln, but also of what is in almost all other books on the war.

READ ON


Dec

27

Turn the TV off or you will be as ignorant as they

Filed Under History, National, Republican Party, Ron Paul | 3 Comments

Preferably read a good book about American history, you’ll find some recommendations on the sidebar on this blog. It’s your only defense against the snickering conceited pundits who will try to bring you down to their level of brain rot. After all, ignorance loves company. Is nescience about history and stuff a prerequisite to getting a job talking on TV?

Three pundits pretending to know something about what they know nothing about:

Dec

25

Will the real crackpot please stand up? Oh! There’s Bill Kristol!

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | 4 Comments

Bill Kristol whose epitaph should one day be “If it was a U.S. war I was for it as long as I wasn’t in it!”.

Bill Kristol whose politically correct view of history is anything that glorifies the state and all its deeds even if it is based on lies and distortions he learned from some Marxist history professors.

Bill Kristol whose philosophy illustrates the perplexing neoconservative enigma, that bankrupting the United States economy through social welfare programs and high taxes like Democrats is bad, but bankrupting the United States economy through endless foreign interventions and inflation like Republicans is good.

On this Christmas Day have pity for this loathsome creature, he is frightened like a cornered animal, he lashes out against the man behind the movement that is exposing this false conservatism that has hijacked the Republican party.

Dec

23

Ron Paul - The McLaughlin Group Person of the Year

Filed Under Republican Party, Ron Paul | Leave a Comment

Dec

23

Ron Paul with Tim Russert on Meet The Press

Filed Under Libertarian, Republican Party, Ron Paul | 5 Comments

PART 1:

Part 2 here

Part 3 here

Part 4 here

Dec

23

The 700 Club on the Ron Paul Revolution

Filed Under Republican Party, Ron Paul | 2 Comments

Dec

22

Refute the Demagogues

Filed Under Economics, Libertarian, Ron Paul | Leave a Comment

“Obviously one cannot deal in politics without being aware of human nature and how interventionism attracts demagogues. Refuting the demagogues who prate about their great skills during the boom, and shout louder and louder for statism as the busts get more severe with each cycle, seems an overwhelming task. It is easy to see that many economic “recoveries” are nothing but more of the same—spending and inflating our way into a new cycle, hoping for yet another boom, which may or may not materialize. Eventually, the deceitful trick of inflation will fail to create “prosperity?” When that time comes, due to the sustained period of inflation that we have endured, we can expect a serious political and economic crisis for Western civilization. The incantations of supply-sidism, monetarism, or Keynesianism will not suffice, and the fascist and socialist voices of oppression will grow louder and more influential.” - Ron Paul (Mises and Austrian Economics
A Personal View)

READ IT ALL HERE
Or buy it in the Mises Store here

Next Page →