Aug

27

Ron Paul on socialism as the enemy of liberty

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
August 25, 2008

Freedom is Golden

As the Olympics wind down, I am amazed at how things change every four years. Many Americans were glued to their televisions to watch the excitement from Beijing, and also heard announcers wax nostalgic with memories of times when the Soviet Union was the USA’s biggest competitor for Olympic gold. There was a time when it was unthinkable that a government as powerful as that of the Soviet Union’s could possibly crumble, yet crumble it did. The irony is that the strength of the Soviet government was also its weakness, as no country, no economic system can remain strong under the crushing burden that is central planning.

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Aug

24

Interventionist profiteers and foreign agents

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“This is the situation in which the interventionists have placed our country: committed to go to war for countries and causes that do not justify war, against a Russia that is re-emerging as a great power only to find NATO squatting on her doorstep.”

Pat Buchanan nails another neocon scumbag.

And None Dare Call It Treason
08/22/2008
by Patrick J. Buchanan

Who is Randy Scheunemann?

He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States.

But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role.

He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man.

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Aug

24

Glenn Beck with Penn Jillette - “There’s no way I’m going to vote for one of these two clowns”

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Glen and Penn discuss Bob Barr, Ron Paul, and not voting for Obama or McCain. Penn’s Curly Howard analogy is both funny and unvarnished. Pick either Obama or McCain and be prepared to get poked in the eye.

08/20/2008

Aug

18

Assault on the First Amendment - The Democratic Convention Dog Pound

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Aug

12

The Feral Hemp Fraud

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The DEA ditch weed scam, part of that national disgrace called the War on Drugs. As a taxpayer wouldn’t you like to know how much it is costing you to have federal agents go around and pick weeds (not weed)? If we are paying for this useless service by coercion you would think they would at least do something really useful for us like pull the dandelions out of our lawns.
Now it seems the DEA no longer even wants you to know how successful they are at wild weed picking.

So Where Did All The Ditchweed Go?
by Paul Armentano

Who among us doesn’t like to brag after a job well done? It’s human nature, right?

I mean, even the DEA enjoys boasting about their so-called “accomplishments.” They even have their own (taxpayer funded) museum.

Given this fact, it’s both curious and notable that the DEA has suddenly ceased publicizing data regarding how many millions of feral hemp plants (aka “ditchweed”) law enforcement eradicate each year.

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Aug

10

McCain the patriotic war hero?

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One trick of selling a political scoundrel to the masses is to submerge their past by wrapping it in a flag, but some people never forget.
An excerpt from the documentary missing, presumed dead

HT: Patrick J Buchanan Blog

Aug

9

Who predicted the Fanny and Freddie Fiasco 5 Years Ago?

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Here’s a hint—it wasn’t a neocon Republican or a progressive Democrat. They’re too stupid.

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Aug

9

Florida GOP says you can’t use the word “Republican” if you don’t support the neocon candidate

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For the the GOP party elite and its brainwashed partisans, an election is just a team sport, it’s about keeping the fans loyal and ticket sales high even thought the team and the coach stinks to high heaven. They even go so far to claim the word “Republican” can only be used by themselves, and anyone who doesn’t follow their sick and reckless big government progressive agenda is a zealot.

GOP warns dissident wing
Republicans try to stop ‘Liberty Caucus’

By PETER GUINTA

State Republicans are trying to thwart a move by Ron Paul supporters to take over the party in St. Johns County and the state.

This week, the Republicans sent warning letters to 10 state chapters of the Republican Liberty Caucus — an organization within the party that promotes an agenda much the same as Ron Paul libertarians. The letter warned the caucus the law doesn’t allow them to use the word “Republican” in its name without permission.

Some local Republicans see the caucus as seeking control of their party and then opposing Sen. John McCain, who they see as too liberal. This is similar to what is playing out on the national stage, as mainstream Republicans are losing western support for McCain to libertarians.

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Aug

4

Ron Paul - Washington’s Intervention Addiction

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
08/04/08

One problem with politicians is that when problems they create come to a head, they typically feel this irresistible urge to DO something, rather than to UN-do something, or to simply back off to avoid exacerbating the situation. Too often, that which they end up doing has very little connection to the cause of the crisis, but plays well in the press and superficially makes everyone feel better. Bills that are rushed through Congress under duress are never studied enough, providing too tempting an opportunity to quietly slip in unrelated provisions that erode freedoms in ways that would never pass as a stand-alone bill. We famously saw this with the PATRIOT Act, but Washington learned nothing from that.

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Aug

4

Ron Paul vs The Hypocritical Jingoists

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“This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth–ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be, when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!” - Mark Twain (Letter to Rev. J. H. Twichell, Jan. 29, 1901)

Human rights abuses in every country on earth arises from one common element—big government.
The U.S. is no different but maybe more unique in the fact that it has had a Bill of Rights that protected the natural rights of each and every person in its states from federal encroachment.
Ron Paul as usual is the only one to scold the self-righteous ignoramuses of congress on what they’ve done to abuse human rights in this country and in others.

U.S. congressman opposes House resolution on China

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — U.S. Republican congressman Ron Paul of Texas described the recent resolution by the House of Representatives on China’s human rights situation as “ill-conceived” and “hypocritical” and he urged the U.S. legislature to deal with human rights abuses in U.S. or those created abroad by U.S. foreign policies.

“I rise in opposition to this resolution, which is yet another meaningless but provocative condemnation of China. It is this kind of jingoism that has led to such a low opinion of the United States abroad,” Paul, who had run for U.S. president as a Republican candidate earlier, said in a statement posted on the official website of the House.

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