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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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Ezras shine-job, headlined How powerful are the Koch brothers? does its Beigeist best to muddle the readers head into believing that, yeah, the Kochs are kinda bad n stuff, but hey, its 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 dont know of any American mother or father that would do such a thing. I wouldnt give a finger from one of my sons to do any of these things. Some Americans, however, wouldnt mind it if some other Americans son came back from some foreign war in a box with only a finger that was recognizable just as long as it wasnt 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 Ive 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. Ive typed it in so many times the past month its insane. Im experiencing an excitement Ive rarely ever felt, and I dont 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. Im on overdrive, and I cant 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 ...
Ron Paul's Fans: Will They Vote GOP in 2012? Post Date: 2011-12-30 10:20:05 by We The People
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Allen Huffman wouldnt even be a Republican if not for Ron Paul. The Texas congressmans promise to get rid of the income tax prompted the 42-year-old to register with the GOP and to caucus for Paul in 2008. Huffman has participated in phone banks at Pauls campaign office about a dozen times in recent weeks, but dont expect him to volunteer if Paul is not the GOP nominee. I dont vote for the ticket. I vote for principles, Huffman said. I dont like Newt Gingrich at all, and I think Mitt Romney is too slick. Another Paul supporter at his Wednesday-night rally in Des Moines, 54-year-old John Cheever, ...
Ron Paul: Newsletters haven’t hurt me politically Post Date: 2011-12-30 10:05:25 by We The People
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A collection of racist, anti-Israel and anti-gay statements that appeared in newsletters published in Ron Pauls name may have made national headlines, but the congressman said Thursday that he doesnt think the controversy has damaged his campaign. It never hurt me politically, and right now I think it is the same case, but people are desperate to find something, the GOP presidential contender said during an in-studio interview at WHO Radio in Des Moines. The newsletters in questions were published in the 70s, 80s and 90s under various titles, including The Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Freedom Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report and The ...
Why the establishment really fears Ron Paul Post Date: 2011-12-29 16:37:24 by We The People
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As Ron Paul has risen in the polls, so has the frequency of attacks against him. Any stick will do to beat a dog goes the old saying, and the whacks against Paul range from reasonable to ridiculous. Expect the attacks to continue. Expect them to get more ridiculous. And expect the worst attacks to come from Republicans. Lets cut the crap. The GOP establishments main beef with Ron Paul is his foreign policy. This ideological chasm is the subtext to most attacks on Paul from the right. To their credit, some of Pauls critics are man (or woman) enough to confront the congressman on this subject directly. Paul welcomes these challenges and wants his fellow ...
War Is a Government Program Post Date: 2011-12-29 15:46:10 by Fibr Dog
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Libertarians and conservatives who argue for economic freedom and against government control tend to make both principled and practical arguments for their positions. Take health insurance, for example. The principled argument against government regulation of health insurance is twofold: (1) No government has the right to dictate to someone what kind of insurance he should buy or whether he should buy it at all; and (2) no government has the right to dictate to an insurance company what kind of insurance it may sell and what it many charge. The practical arguments are many; for example, if government sets prices too low, it will cause shortages and rationing, which most people would find ...
Lets Name The Bad Bad People Of The Internet! [Full Thread] Post Date: 2011-12-28 18:56:35 by A K A Stone
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There are a lot of asshole douche bags on the internet. I will start naming them soon and some of the reasons why they are internet assholes/douchebags.
Douches only post on other sites. So don't talk crap about anyone here. :)
Why Neo-Cons Hate Ron Paul’s Honest Foreign Policy Post Date: 2011-12-28 13:16:52 by We The People
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This article, originally titled Ron Paul: Propagandist Or Prophet?, was written by Jeremy R. Hammond and published at Foreign Policy Journal Ron Paul is the best-known American propagandist for our enemies, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul assures audiences that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 took place only because of U.S. aggression and military actions. Its True, she writes, that weve heard the assertions before, but only rarely have we heard in any American political figure such exclusive concern for, and ...
Ron Paul's Detractors @ LOX News Post Date: 2011-12-28 09:55:42 by We The People
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Look at all the neoconservatives over at LOX NEWS, aka http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi , pulling out and dusting off articles and issues that they have to blow the dust off of, that have been hashed and rehashed and proven to be BS, in an effort to paint Ron Paul with the label of racist. Gatlin especially, but also the rest of the toady crew, all filled with hate, shooting up snake venom and monkey puss and ranting like imbeciles, because they just can't make the bullshit stick! LOL! Well, I have a Christmas present for you neo's at LOX NEWS, I'm going to help you present your case. Actually, I'm going to present videos of others who agree with you leftists. ...
The Roots of Liberalism and Conservatism Post Date: 2011-12-26 08:54:43 by CZ82
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The Roots of Liberalism and Conservatism By Paul Shlichta Conservative writers sometimes complain about the obstinacy of liberals -- how they persist in their beliefs despite the flagrant misdeeds of their politicians and the collapse of welfare states, as is now happening in Europe. Since false conclusions are often the result of false initial assumptions, I tried to find the cause of this persistence by tracing back to the roots of liberal and conservative thought. I concluded that conservatism is based on the concept that "all men are equal but not necessarily good," while liberalism is derived from the idea that "all men are good but not necessarily equal." ...
Three Myths About Ron Paul in Iowa Post Date: 2011-12-25 20:29:03 by We The People
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Two recent polls show contradictory results for the upcoming Iowa caucuses. A December 22, 2011 Rasmussen poll declared Mitt Romney the likely winner. But a day earlier a Public Policy Poll said that Ron Paul would win, Here are three myths regarding Ron Paul and the Iowa caucuses: Myth number one: The Iowa caucuses dont matter. Keep in mind the following. Since 1972, when the Iowa caucuses became the first in the nation event for choosing the respective party presidential nominees, only one candidate has won the presidency without winning either the contest in Iowa or the primary in New Hampshire. And when a candidate has won both, that candidate has always won their partys ...
Iowa and the Future of the GOP Post Date: 2011-12-25 10:26:18 by We The People
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Judging by some of the television images of the 2012 Republican presidential race in Iowa, the contest is among a bunch of small-bore candidates courting farmers and born-again Christians out on the chilly prairie. Look again. The 2012 Republican contest in Iowa is very much a battle over what the GOP should stand for in the years ahead. Just as Republican leaders in Washington can't seem to reach a consensus on what they're for, so can't rank-and-file party activists here. Throughout this campaign, a variety of candidates have risen and fallen as caucusgoers have fallen in love and then been struck by buyer's remorse. Today most leads in polls of the race are within the ...
GOP fears Ron Paul presidency Post Date: 2011-12-25 10:15:30 by We The People
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As I watch and listen to more of the pre-election babble it becomes ever more apparent the only viable candidate the Republican Party has at this time is Ron Paul. One thing that convinces me of that is the continuing Republican attempt to silence him, ignore him and to pretend he doesn't exist, that he's not really there. None of the other candidates get this treatment, only Dr. Paul. Over the years he is the only one that has been consistent on the issues he deals with. It would appear he has something to say the political establishment, Republican and Democrat, does not want the American people to hear. What are they afraid of? No more glaring example of this is the reaction of ...
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