Ron Paul’s message resonates with Sioux City crowd
SIOUX CITY — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul drew applause Tuesday when he told an audience of about 200 that he supports a return to a monetary system based on the gold standard. Even more of those who gathered for the Texas congressman’s town-hall-style campaign stop here clapped and shouted in agreement when Paul spoke [...]
Feds Still Mum on Reason for Gibson Raids
By Andy Meek Updated 2:58PM Print | Front Page | Email this story | Email reporter Federal officials have shed a little light on last month’s raid of Christopher Mansour, the director of congressional and legislative affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior, and Ronald Weich, assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, wrote to congressional leaders in broad terms about the [...]
Even Howard Dean is not Beyond the Tentacles of AttackWatch
One of today’s amusing tweets: “#AttackWatch – HEY BARACK! Did Howard have your permission to say this? #tcot#ObamaLies http://ow.ly/6zSae” Thanks @Hanko1954 Former Democratic National Committee Chairman, and doctor, Howard Dean backed a McKinsey & Co. survey today that found that almost a third of private-sector employers will drop their employee health insurance coverage when Obamacare’s government-managed insurance exchanges come [...]
How DC, Pentagon Create Global Instability
How Washington Creates Global Instability by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, September 19, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum It was built for… well, not to put too fine a point on it, victory. I’m talking, of course, about the ill-named Camp Victory, the massive military complex, a set of bases really, constructed around an old [...]
Video: Ron Paul Gets 44.9% in California straw poll
(CNN) Texas Rep. Ron Paul won a California straw poll, the state Republican Party announced in a statement Saturday night. A total of 833 ballots were cast during the straw poll, the statement said. Paul won with 44.9% of the votes, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came in second with 29.3% of the votes, and former [...]
Media Assassins Blitzer, Krugman Team Up on RP
by Jeremy R. Hammond September 17, 2011 Paul Krugman tried to slam Ron Paul in his most recent column by writing: Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, [...]
Book shocker: Staff ignored Obama order
Ed Lasky An insider account of the White House’s response to the financial crisis reveals a president so inexperienced, amateurish, and radical that he proposed “dissolving” (nationalizing) Citigroup. The ideaa was so absurd that even Timothy Geithner could see that would not have helped in restoring stability to the world’s financial system, and the order [...]
Ron Paul ‘death’ moment: No ‘audience’ reaction
By Erik Wemple At the CNN-Tea Party Express debate on Monday night, host Wolf Blitzer and candidate Ron Paul went back and forth over a hypothetical: What if a man who decided not to buy health insurance somehow ended up in a coma? Paul responded with his usual platitudes about freedom and risks. Blitzer, though, wanted [...]
