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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Apr

22

Ron Paul’s The Revolution: A Manifesto on the rise on Amazon

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#34 in books as I write this (It was #44 about an hour ago)
Update 4/22/08 10:19 AM EST Now at #18

And The Revolution: A Manifesto is

#1 in Books > Nonfiction > Politics > Practical Politics
#1 in Books > Nonfiction > Philosophy > Political
#1 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Political


Apr

15

Ron Paul - Bailing Out Banks

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
April 14, 2008

There has been a lot of talk in the news recently about the Federal Reserve and the actions it has taken over the past few months. Many media pundits have been bending over backwards to praise the Fed for supposedly restoring stability to the market. This interpretation of the Fed’s actions couldn’t be further from the truth.

The current market crisis began because of Federal Reserve monetary policy during the early 2000s in which the Fed lowered the interest rate to a below-market rate. The artificially low rates led to overinvestment in housing and other malinvestments. When the first indications of market trouble began back in August of 2007, instead of holding back and allowing bad decision-makers to suffer the consequences of their actions, the Federal Reserve took aggressive, inflationary action to ensure that large Wall Street firms would not lose money. It began by lowering the discount rates, the rates of interest charged to banks who borrow directly from the Fed, and lengthening the terms of such loans. This eliminated much of the stigma from discount window borrowing and enabled troubled banks to come to the Fed directly for funding, pay only a slightly higher interest rate but also secure these loans for a period longer than just overnight.

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Apr

11

Ron Paul - One Brave and Honest Soul Out of 414

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He was the only one to vote not to play in the hypocritical tyrants denouncing other tyrants game.

House passes Chinese crackdown resolution

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for “nonviolent” demonstrations.

The vote was 413-1. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who has not dropped out of the presidential race, was the lone congressman voting against it.


READ ON AT CNN

Apr

11

Petraeus and Crocker Face the Ron Paul Constitution Test

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Ron Paul’s question posed to Petraeus and Crocker was “…does the administration have the authority to bomb Iran without further congressional approval?”
You would think that two public servants who swore to defend the Constitution of the United States from enemies both foreign and domestic would know that the Constitution forbids the executive branch from waging war without a congressional vote of approval.
Both men squirming in their seats gave the same answer “I don’t know”. Crocker even had the audacity to say he was “not competent to pronounce on an issue like that”. Knowing that to answer that question honestly would mean career self destruction in the service of the empire, I can understand their sudden lack of knowledge but I don’t respect it. Like H.L. Mencken famously wrote “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

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