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21% OF DEMS HAVE LEFT PARTY
Post Date: 2012-01-06 22:10:02 by A K A Stone
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According to the latest Rasmussen Poll, 21% — more than one in five — Democrats have abandoned the Party since Obama’s election as president. While most have become Independents, identification with the Republican Party has also risen not only since 2008 but also even since the GOP’s 2010 victory. Rasmussen, who tracks voters’ party identification (self-described) every month, shows that Democratic Party identification, has dropped by eight points (or 21%) since Obama’s election in November, 2008 while Republican Party identification has risen by three points over the same period. Despite speculation in the liberal media that the Republicans in Congress have ...
The Reactionary Mind – The Truth About Conservatism: An Interview with Corey Robin Part II
Post Date: 2012-01-05 13:20:01 by lucysmom
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...One of the chapters in the book deals with Ayn Rand. I’m going to quote from it directly as I don’t think there is a better way to sum it up. “Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladamir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.” I really don’t think I’ve seen a better quote summing up the phenomenon that is Ayn Rand. This is not political jousting either – in the book you’re generally quite respectful of conservative theorists. But Ayn Rand is unusual in that… well… she really was a hack. There is no way she was on par with the other theorists ...
Neoconservative Rising: The GOP's Future, and Rick Santorum
Post Date: 2012-01-04 17:46:35 by Brian S
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Since the 1980's, the GOP has followed a political strategy pioneered by their annointed saint, Ronald Reagan: taking choice elements of libertarian ideology and distilling them into applause-winning campaign platitudes. The strategy worked in the short-term, giving the right stances starkly different from, as well as sensible-sounding arguments against, the left. It was, and still is popular in conservative circles to claim quasi-libertarian ideals: "I am libertarian/Randian/Rothbardian on the economy, conservative on morality," et cetera. Republicans are certainly not afraid to pay lip service to thinkers like Hayek, Rand, and von Mises when votes are ...
How Slimy Is Santorum?
Post Date: 2012-01-04 14:57:08 by Brian S
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More principles, consistency and humility than Ron Paul? Alana Goodman thinks this not-Romney isn't like all other not-Romneys: Yes, he has plenty of his own flaws, and they shouldn’t be glossed over. But so far, his baggage doesn’t seem to be of the fatal sort. There’s no history of adultery, no sexual harassment charges, no problems with articulation, no shoot-from-the-hip attitude. Santorum’s debate performances have been excellent, and he’s shown a notable grasp of foreign policy issues. He also has impeccable social conservative credentials. Yes: he's for criminalizing all abortion and nullifying my civil marriage by constitutional amendment. He's ...
'Bugsplat': The Civilian Toll Of War
Post Date: 2012-01-03 19:35:02 by Brian S
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"The Lakotah had no language for insulting other orders of existence: pest, waste, weed ..."But what about "bugsplat"?That's the word for the cop at UC Davis, walking up and down the line of students sitting with their arms locked, zapping them in the eyes with pepper spray. It's the word for the Tunisian police and bureaucrats who humiliated Mohamed Bouazizi and destroyed his livelihood as a street vendor. It's the word for anyone whose power exceeds his humanity.And, according to a 2003 Washington Post story, it's the name of a Defense Department computer program for calculating collateral damage, as well as, apparently, casual terminology among ...
You See ... Even the YoungTurks think Ron Paul is a Neville Chamberlain fool
Post Date: 2012-01-02 16:00:10 by Happy Quanzaa
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You See ... Even the YoungTurks think Ron Paul is a Neville Chamberlain fool
Bachmann: Pants On Fire! (My Title)
Post Date: 2012-01-02 14:34:16 by We The People
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Iowa Predictions 1-2-2012
Post Date: 2012-01-02 13:13:25 by A K A Stone
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Anyone have any predictions as to what happens tomorrow? I predict Ron Paul gets cheated out of first place.
Ron Paul's Iowa victory
Post Date: 2012-01-02 09:21:57 by We The People
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa—Ron Paul is within striking distance of winning the Iowa caucuses, a significant milestone for a candidate now on his third try for the presidency. Yet in the final weekend before the votes are cast, the congressman could be found at his Texas home, the only GOP hopeful who slept in his own bed Saturday night. He had flown home Friday, with plans to return on Monday. Paul and his senior advisers shrugged off his absence from the trail at a key moment — it’s not a big deal, in their view — noting that he appeared on three of the five Sunday shows. Besides, they point out, he has avoided retail campaigning on Sundays all year. “Sunday’s a ...
Can Ron Paul Pull Off a Youth Revolt in Iowa?
Post Date: 2012-01-02 09:13:56 by We The People
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Newton, Iowa David Richardson, clad in his black leather Led Zeppelin jacket, rode his bicycle into the middle of the Iowa Speedway in Newton. There were no drivers on the track, but there was a different kind of race underway in a small building at the center of the facility—one fueled by money and votes instead of gasoline. Texas Congressman Ron Paul was there on Wednesday afternoon to make his case for becoming the next President. One look at Richardson, a 28-year-old factory worker, and it was clear he had already been won over. Along with a thick nose ring, he sported a Ron Paul beanie and a Ron Paul T-shirt bearing Iowa’s state motto: “Our liberties we prize, and our ...
Ron Paul denies believing CIA behind 9/11, Rick Santorum milks poll surge as GOP braces for Iowa caucuses
Post Date: 2012-01-01 23:38:34 by We The People
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Santorum has soared into third in Iowa, trailing just Paul and front-runner Mitt Romney, according to a key Des Moines Register survey. ATLANTIC, IOWA — As the Iowa campaign moves into its final, frantic days, a slumping Ron Paul came out swinging Sunday to deny charges he believed the U.S. was behind the 9/11 terror attacks. A longtime Paul aide claimed last week that the Texas congressman thought the CIA had a hand in bringing down the World Trade Center — and that President George W. Bush was tipped off ahead of time. “That’s complete nonsense,” an angry Paul said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Come on, let’s be reasonable. That’s just ...
The Implausibility of Nuclear Terrorism
Post Date: 2012-01-01 19:51:39 by We The People
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The Implausibility of Nuclear Terrorism "In this war, it appears, the worst eventuality is one that will never happen." (UPI Photo/Files) "Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live, I am coming.'" Were Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. alive today, he might ascribe that line not to death but to nuclear terrorism. Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have had to live with the knowledge that the next time the terrorists strike, it could be not with airplanes capable of killing thousands but atomic bombs capable of killing hundreds of thousands. The prospect has created a sense of profound vulnerability. It has shaped our view of government ...
Small Homogeneous States Only Solution for Middle East
Post Date: 2012-01-01 19:18:24 by jwpegler
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We are currently witnessing social unrest in many Arab states, and street riots have already succeeded in ousting two presidents – in Tunisia and in Egypt – and in unsettling the governmental fabric in Libya, Yemen, Morocco, Syria and Bahrain. The ease and swiftness with which the flames have spread from country to country in the last two months is due to a common trait shared by these countries: all of their regimes are dictatorships headed by non-legitimate rulers who ruthlessly hold sway over a starving, neglected and abused populace which has decided to put an end to its oppression and humiliation. The fundamental problem characterizing Middle Eastern states is that they have ...
Mark Ames: Ezra Klein’s shine job on the Kochs
Post Date: 2012-01-01 12:47:58 by lucysmom
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Ezra’s shine-job, headlined “How powerful are the Koch brothers?” does its Beigeist best to muddle the reader’s head into believing that, yeah, the Kochs are kinda bad ‘n stuff, but hey, it’s just how things are: as far as I can tell, the Koch brothers are rich ideologues/industrialists who are in competition with other rich ideologues, trade organizations, interest groups, constituents, activists, electoral incentives and so on to set the agenda of the Republican Party. Sometimes they are part of the coalition that succeeds, as in the case of energy policy. Sometimes they are part of the coalition that fails, as in the case of foreign policy. Yeah, they win ...
Is America Losing Control?
Post Date: 2011-12-31 20:24:45 by Fibr Dog
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"Events are in the saddle and ride mankind." In describing 2011, few cliches seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle. While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain a fighting chance to be re-elected, the economy showed no signs of returning to the robustness of the Reagan or Clinton years. And Obama is all out of options. By January 2013, he will have added $6 trillion to a national debt that just earned America a downgrade on its AAA credit rating. The nation hearkened to the tea party in 2010, giving the GOP 63 new seats in the House. But Republicans, too, have ...
How the Interventionists Stole the American Right
Post Date: 2011-12-31 19:52:24 by Fibr Dog
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Thanks to Ron Paul, the Conservative movement is having an identity crisis. The old guard of the Conservative movement, which also happens to be the Republican Party establishment, still clings to the old creation myth of the Conservative movement. Namely, that there was no opposition to the New Deal-Liberal consensus until William F. Buckley and National Review came along in 1955, saving America from the American left, social democracy, moral turpitude and international Communism. The modern gatekeepers of the movement, and the Republican Party officials, who fancy themselves as the keepers of the last word on the acceptable range of debate within the movement, cannot understand why the ...
Was It Worth It?
Post Date: 2011-12-31 17:44:33 by Fibr Dog
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Would you sacrifice your firstborn son to establish a democracy in country that had a dictatorship? How about giving up your son to effect a regime change? What about exchanging your son to end the oppression of minorities? How about trading your son in return for a country holding elections? I don’t know of any American mother or father that would do such a thing. I wouldn’t give a finger from one of my sons to do any of these things. Some Americans, however, wouldn’t mind it if some other American’s son came back from some foreign war in a box with only a finger that was recognizable – just as long as it wasn’t their son. Now that the war in Iraq is ...
Nation-Building Is Not Conservative
Post Date: 2011-12-31 12:25:44 by We The People
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Nation-Building Is Not Conservative by Rep. Ron Paul A recent study [.pdf] by the Pentagon's Defense Science Task Force on Strategic Communications concluded that in the struggle for hearts and minds in Iraq, "American efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended." This Pentagon report flatly states that our war in Iraq actually has elevated support for radical Islamists. It goes on to conclude that our active intervention in the Middle East as a whole has greatly diminished our reputation in the region, and strengthened support for radical groups. This is similar to what the CIA predicted in an October 2002 National ...
WAR IS NOT CONSERVATIVE
Post Date: 2011-12-31 11:04:28 by We The People
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War not conservative (Rep. John J. Duncan) By Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.) - 11/18/09 12:04 PM ET There is nothing conservative about the war in Afghanistan. The Center for Defense Information said a few months ago that we had spent over $400 billion on the war and war-related costs there. Now, the Pentagon says it will cost about $1 billion for each 1,000 additional troops we send to Afghanistan. One Republican Member from California told me recently that we could buy off every warlord in Afghanistan for $1 billion. Fiscal conservatives should be the ones most horrified by all this spending. Conservatives who oppose big government and huge deficit spending at home should not ...
From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go!
Post Date: 2011-12-31 09:34:13 by A K A Stone
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From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go! By Rafi Lately I’ve been having trouble sleeping. I sit here in my living room in Karnei Shomron, Israel, on the 8th night of Chanukah, wondering what other miracles lay in store on January 3rd and in the months ahead. The name Ron Paul is constantly at my fingertips. I’ve typed it in so many times the past month it’s insane. I’m experiencing an excitement I’ve rarely ever felt, and I don’t even live in America anymore. During the last Republican debate I woke myself up at 3am Israel time to watch an 8pm EST live stream on YouTube, with no fatigue whatsoever. I’m on overdrive, and I can’t calm myself. ...
Santorum
Post Date: 2011-12-30 17:14:48 by We The People
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Would you describe someone who betrayed Second Amendment supporters as "conservative"? What about if that candidate voted for a massive expansion of the federal government's role in health care? And if that candidate allied himself with union-label liberals like Ted Kennedy to vote for Big Labor power grabs time after time? As sad as it is, those are just a few of Rick Santorum's "greatest hits." Some in the liberal media are now trying to push Rick Santorum as another conservative alternative. But the truth is, just like with all the media's other darlings, Rick Santorum is just another counterfeit, and he is no conservative. Just consider ...
In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victims
Post Date: 2011-12-30 16:20:24 by We The People
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Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Texas Rep. Ron Paul has distanced himself from a series of controversial newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s that bore his name and included inflammatory and racially charged language. As the newsletters burst into view, first during his 2008 presidential bid and again in recent weeks after he climbed to the front of the Republican race in Iowa, Paul has blamed the writings on ghostwriters. He said he was not aware of the "bad stuff," as he described it. But one of Paul's own books, published solely under his name, contains several passages that could be problematic as he attempts to push his libertarian message into the political mainstream. In ...
a veteran speak out about iraq and ron paul
Post Date: 2011-12-30 14:52:15 by A K A Stone
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Ron Paul and the Future of American Foreign Policy: The Paul-haters won’t succeed
Post Date: 2011-12-30 14:42:53 by Fibr Dog
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“Between government in the republican meaning, that is, constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other, or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never has the choice been put to a vote of the people.” Garet Garrett had been an editor of the Saturday Evening Post, a financial writer for the >I>New York Times, a renowned author and journalist of the “roaring Twenties,” an intransigent opponent of the New Deal, and sometime novelist: his career spanned the era of Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, and Truman. In those days his was the voice of mainstream ...
Ron Paul's Ascent Cannot Be Separated from His Foreign-Policy Views
Post Date: 2011-12-30 14:36:29 by A K A Stone
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Despite their centrality to his appeal, some of his critics discount the importance of his anti-interventionist views or else fail even to acknowledge them. As the only remaining GOP candidate who is skeptical of America's interventionist foreign policy and against the prospect of future wars of choice in the Middle East -- positions held by perhaps half of rank-and-file Republicans -- Ron Paul naturally owes an important part of his popularity to his positions on those issues, which distinguish him from the rest of the party's field. Strangely, however, I keep seeing pieces ostensibly grappling with Paul's popularity that completely and inexplicably discount his ...
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