Monthly Archives: December 2011
Ex-Ron Paul Aide Disputes Paul On Newsletters
Ex-Ron Paul Aide Disputes Paul On Newsletters – American Spectator
Did Ron Paul look Sean Hannity in the eye after the Sioux City debate on Fox News – and play fast and loose with the facts of his newsletter?
In this video of Hannity interviewing Paul, at the 5:00 marker Hannity begins asking Paul about the newsletters. Paul flatly denies writing them. But never once mentions that he approved them. Instead, he directs Hannity to an article in the Texas Monthly that Paul says deals with the issue.
The Texas Monthly aricle requires registration for readers. But unfortunately for Mr. Paul, over at the site of the Capital Free Press (here) reporter Patrick McEwen registered and reports on what he found. And what he found directly contradicts what former aide Eric Dondero has said in The American Spectator. In the Texas Monthly, Paul steadfastly denies writing the newsletters. But never once hints that he personally approved them – the charge Dondero is making.
Now, Dondero, in recent Comments posted (scroll down) on The American Spectator, challenges the truth of the notion that Congressman Paul somehow was unaware of the content of his controversial newsletters. He does confirm that Paul associates wrote the newsletters (including Lew Rockwell, the controversial ex-Paul chief of staff) but insists Paul himself was fully involved in the approval process. With Hannity sitting inches away on national television, Paul never admits that in fact he himself approved the newsletters… as Dondero now asserts… “every line of them.”
The newsletters, which surfaced in the last presidential campaign, have re-emerged in a year in which other GOP presidential candidates have had their pasts re-opened for vetting. Old allegations about Newt Gingrich’s marital infidelities, Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital and Mormonism, and Herman Cain’s problem with sexual misconduct allegations (all still unproven and flatly denied by Mr. Cain) have dominated the airwaves and the Internet. All have been grilled by Hannity on each allegation – at length.
Says Dondero of the newsletter (full text below*), Ron Paul “did read them, every line of them, off his fax machine at his Clute office before they were published. He would typically sign them at the bottom of the last page giving his okay, and refax them to Jean to go to the printer.” There is not a word of this in the Texas Monthly article that Paul uses to deflect Hannity.
On another occasion, Paul slips and slides through a 2008 interview with Wolf Blitzer on the same subject. Paul repudiates what was written, but very carefully limits himself to saying he never wrote these things.
Here’s the problem.
Ron Paul doesn’t seem like a racist. He has in fact spoken out saying – correctly – that racism is in fact collectivism. He says this is simply not part of his character – and his supporters insist this is so. Yet the newsletter content, publicized several years back by the New Republic, seriously opened the issue in documented fashion.
But the issue seems to be sliding, in light of former Paul aide Dondero’s assertions that Dondero appears to have witnessed. The issue is moving slightly but critically from race – to truth telling.
Simply put: did Ron Paul “read them, every line of them” and then sign off on them? Or not?
If Dondero is telling the truth, then Ron Paul looked Sean Hannity straight in the eye the other night – and deliberately evaded the truth.
Four years ago he appears to have done the same thing to Wolf Blitzer.
For a candidate whose supporters routinely accuse George W. Bush of having lied about the Iraq War, the idea that Paul himself is repeatedly less than truthful – with a specific accusation from a former aide – is big trouble.
* Dondero’s post to The American Spectator is reprinted below, verbatim:
Eric Dondero| 12.18.11 @ 8:24AM
Lew Rockwell and Jeff Tucker wrote the Newsletters (with major input from Murray Rothbard and Marc Thornton). Jean McCiver edited them for clarity and grammar out of the Houston office on Nasa Blvd. Ron was merely a figurhead.
But he did read them, every line of them, off his fax machine at his Clute office before they were published. He would typically sign them at the bottom of the last page giving his okay, and re-fax them to Jean to go to the printer.
Eric Dondero, Personal Asst./Travel Aide
Ron Paul, Libertarian for President, 1987/88
Crdtr. Ron Paul for President Exploratory Comm. 1991
Campaign Coordinator, Ron Paul for Congress, 1995/96
Senior Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul, 1997-2003
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Ed’s NFL Week 16 Picks – 2011
Houston Texans @ Indianapolis Colts – Texans
Miami Dolphins @ New England Patriots – Patriots
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Tennessee Titans – Titans
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Carolina Panthers – Panthers
Cleveland Browns @ Baltimore Ravens – Ravens
Arizona Cardinals @ Cincinnati Bengals – Bengals
Minnesota Vikings @ Washington Redskins – Redskins
Denver Broncos @ Buffalo Bills – Broncos
St. Louis Rams @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Oakland Raiders @ Kansas City Chiefs – Raiders
New York Giants @ New York Jets – Giants
San Diego Chargers @ Detroit Lions – Lions
Philadelphia Eagles @ Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys
San Francisco 49ers @ Seattle Seahawks – 49ers
Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
Atlanta Falcons @ New Orleans Saints – Saints
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——— Week 15 Picks ——— 11 Wins – 5 Losses ———
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Atlanta Falcons – Falcons
Dallas Cowboys @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Cowboys
Cincinnati Bengals @ St. Louis Rams – Bengals
Green Bay Packers @ Kansas City Chiefs – Packers
Carolina Panthers @ Houston Texans – Texans
New Orleans Saints @ Minnesota Vikings – Saints
Seattle Seahawks @ Chicago Bears – Seahawks
Washington Redskins @ New York Giants – Giants
Tennessee Titans @ Indianapolis Colts – Colts
Miami Dolphins @ Buffalo Bills – Bills
Detroit Lions @ Oakland Raiders – Lions
New York Jets @ Philadelphia Eagles – Eagles
Cleveland Browns @ Arizona Cardinals – Cardinals
New England Patriots @ Denver Broncos – Patriots
Baltimore Ravens @ San Diego Chargers – Ravens
Pittsburgh Steelers @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
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——— Week 14 Picks ——— 12 Wins – 4 Losses ———
Cleveland Browns @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Buccaneers
Kansas City Chiefs @ New York Jets – Jets
Houston Texans @ Cincinnati Bengals – Texans
New England Patriots @ Washington Redskins – Patriots
Atlanta Falcons @ Carolina Panthers – Panthers
Philadelphia Eagles @ Miami Dolphins – Dolphins
New Orleans Saints @ Tennessee Titans – Saints
Indianapolis Colts @ Baltimore Ravens – Ravens
Minnesota Vikings @ Detroit Lions – Lions
Chicago Bears @ Denver Broncos – Broncos
San Francisco 49ers @ Arizona Cardinals – 49ers
Buffalo Bills @ San Diego Chargers – Chargers
Oakland Raiders @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
New York Giants @ Dallas Cowboys – Giants
St. Louis Rams @ Seattle Seahawks – Seahawks
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——— Week 13 Picks ——— 10 Wins – 6 Losses ———
Philadelphia Eagles @ Seattle Seahawks – Eagles
Oakland Raiders @ Miami Dolphins – Raiders
Atlanta Falcons @ Houston Texans – Falcons
Carolina Panthers @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Panthers
Indianapolis Colts @ New England Patriots – Patriots
New York Jets @ Washington Redskins – Jets
Kansas City Chiefs @ Chicago Bears – Bears
Denver Broncos @ Minnesota Vikings – Broncos
Tennessee Titans @ Buffalo Bills – Bills
Cincinnati Bengals @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Baltimore Ravens @ Cleveland Browns – Ravens
Dallas Cowboys @ Arizona Cardinals – Cowboys
Green Bay Packers @ New York Giants – Packers
St. Louis Rams @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints – Saints
San Diego Chargers @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Chargers
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——— Week 12 Picks ——— 12 Wins – 4 Losses ———
Green Bay Packers @ Detroit Lions – Lions
Miami Dolphins @ Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys
San Francisco 49ers @ Baltimore Ravens – 49ers
Buffalo Bills @ New York Jets – Jets
Minnesota Vikings @ Atlanta Falcons – Falcons
Arizona Cardinals @ St. Louis Rams – Cardinals
Carolina Panthers @ Indianapolis Colts – Panthers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Tennessee Titans – Titans
Houston Texans @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Texans
Cleveland Browns @ Cincinnati Bengals – Bengals
Washington Redskins @ Seattle Seahawks – Seahawks
Chicago Bears @ Oakland Raiders – Raiders
New England Patriots @ Philadelphia Eagles -Patriots
Denver Broncos @ San Diego Chargers – Chargers
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Kansas City Chiefs – -Steelers
New York Giants @ New Orleans Saints – -Saints
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——— Week 11 Picks ——— 10 Wins – 4 Losses ———
New York Jets @ Denver Broncos – Jets
Carolina Panthers @ Detroit Lions – Lions
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
Dallas Cowboys @ Washington Redskins – Cowboys
Cincinnati Bengals @ Baltimore Ravens – Ravens
Oakland Raiders @ Minnesota Vikings – Raiders
Buffalo Bills @ Miami Dolphins – Bills
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Cleveland Browns – Browns
Seattle Seahawks @ St. Louis Rams – Rams
Arizona Cardinals @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
Tennessee Titans @ Atlanta Falcons – Falcons
San Diego Chargers @ Chicago Bears – Bears
Philadelphia Eagles @ New York Giants – Giants
Kansas City Chiefs @ New England Patriots – Patriots
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——— Week 10 Picks ——— 10 Wins – 6 Losses ———
Oakland Raiders @ San Diego Chargers – Chargers
New Orleans Saints @ Atlanta Falcons – Saints
Tennessee Titans @ Carolina Panthers – Panthers
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals – Steelers
St. Louis Rams @ Cleveland Browns – Rams
Buffalo Bills @ Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Indianapolis Colts – Colts
Denver Broncos @ Kansas City Chiefs – Broncos
Washington Redskins @ Miami Dolphins – Dolphins
Arizona Cardinals @ Philadelphia Eagles – Eagles
Houston Texans @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Texans
Baltimore Ravens @ Seattle Seahawks -Ravens
Detroit Lions @ Chicago Bears – Lions
New York Giants @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
New England Patriots @ New York Jets – Patriots
Minnesota Vikings @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
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——— Week 9 Picks ——— 8 Wins – 6 Losses ———
Miami Dolphins @ Kansas City Chiefs – Chiefs
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ New Orleans Saints – Saints
San Francisco 49ers @ Washington Redskins – 49ers
New York Jets @ Buffalo Bills – Bills
Atlanta Falcons @ Indianapolis Colts – Falcons
Cleveland Browns @ Houston Texans – Texans
Seattle Seahawks @ Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys
Cincinnati Bengals @ Tennessee Titans – Bengals
Denver Broncos @ Oakland Raiders – Raiders
New York Giants @ New England Patriots – Patriots
Green Bay Packers @ San Diego Chargers – Packers
St. Louis Rams @ Arizona Cardinals – Cardinals
Baltimore Ravens @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Chicago Bears @ Philadelphia Eagles – Eagles
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——— Week 8 Picks ——— 9 Wins – 4 Losses ———
Arizona Cardinals @ Baltimore Ravens – Ravens
Minnesota Vikings @ Carolina Panthers – Panthers
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Houston Texans – Texans
Miami Dolphins @ New York Giants – Giants
New Orleans Saints @ St. Louis Rams – Saints
Indianapolis Colts @ Tennessee Titans – Titans
Washington Redskins @ Buffalo Bills – Bills
Detroit Lions @ Denver Broncos – Lions
New England Patriots @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Patriots
Cincinnati Bengals @ Seattle Seahawks – Bengals
Cleveland Browns @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
Dallas Cowboys @ Philadelphia Eagles – Eagles
San Diego Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs – Chargers
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——— Week 7 Picks ——— 8 Wins – 5 Losses ———
Washington Redskins @ Carolina Panthers – Panthers
Seattle Seahawks @ Cleveland Browns – Browns
Atlanta Falcons @ Detroit Lions – Lions
Denver Broncos @ Miami Dolphins – Broncos
San Diego Chargers @ New York Jets – Chargers
Chicago Bears @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Buccaneers
Houston Texans @ Tennessee Titans – Texans
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Arizona Cardinals – Steelers
Kansas City Chiefs @ Oakland Raiders – Raiders
St. Louis Rams @ Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys
Green Bay Packers @ Minnesota Vikings – Packers
Indianapolis Colts @ New Orleans Saints – Saints
Baltimore Ravens @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Ravens
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——— Week 6 Picks ——— 10 Wins – 3 Losses ———
Carolina Panthers @ Atlanta Falcons – Falcons
Indianapolis Colts @ Cincinnati Bengals – Bengals
San Francisco 49ers @ Detroit Lions – Lions
St. Louis Rams @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
Buffalo Bills @ New York Giants – Bills
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Philadelphia Eagles @ Washington Redskins – Eagles
Houston Texans @ Baltimore Ravens – Ravens
Cleveland Browns @ Oakland Raiders – Raiders
Dallas Cowboys @ New England Patriots – Patriots
New Orleans Saints @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Saints
Minnesota Vikings @ Chicago Bears – Bears
Miami Dolphins @ New York Jets – Jets
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——— Week 5 Picks ——— 9 Wins – 4 Losses ———
Philadelphia Eagles @ Buffalo Bills – Eagles
New Orleans Saints @ Carolina Panthers – Saints
Oakland Raiders @ Houston Texans -Texans
Kansas City Chiefs @ Indianapolis Colts – Colts
Cincinnati Bengals @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Bengals
Arizona Cardinals @ Minnesota Vikings – Vikings
Seattle Seahawks @ New York Giants – Giants
Tennessee Titans @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
San Diego Chargers @ Denver Broncos – Chargers
New York Jets @ New England Patriots – Patriots
Green Bay Packers @ Atlanta Falcons – Packers
Chicago Bears @ Detroit Lions – Lions
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——— Week 4 Picks ——— 13 Wins – 3 Losses ———
Carolina Panthers @ Chicago Bears – Panthers
Buffalo Bills @ Cincinnati Bengals – Bills
Tennessee Titans @ Cleveland Browns – Titans
Detroit Lions @ Dallas Cowboys – Lions
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Houston Texans – Texans
New Orleans Saints @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Saints
Minnesota Vikings @ Kansas City Chiefs – Vikings
San Francisco 49ers @ Philadelphia Eagles – 49ers
Washington Redskins @ St. Louis Rams – Redskins
New York Giants @ Arizona Cardinals – Giants
Atlanta Falcons @ Seattle Seahawks – Falcons
Denver Broncos @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
New England Patriots @ Oakland Raiders – Patriots
Miami Dolphins @ San Diego Chargers – Chargers
New York Jets @ Baltimore Ravens – Ravens
Indianapolis Colts @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Buccaneers
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——— Week 3 Picks ——— 9 Wins – 7 Losses ———
New England Patriots @ Buffalo Bills – Patriots
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Carolina Panthers – Panthers
San Francisco 49ers @ Cincinnati Bengals – Bengals
Miami Dolphins @ Cleveland Browns – Browns
Detroit Lions @ Minnesota Vikings – Lions
Houston Texans @ New Orleans Saints – Saints
New York Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles – Eagles
Denver Broncos @ Tennessee Titans – Titans
New York Jets @ Oakland Raiders – Jets
Kansas City Chiefs @ San Diego Chargers – Chargers
Baltimore Ravens @ St. Louis Rams – Ravens
Green Bay Packers @ Chicago Bears – Packers
Arizona Cardinals @ Seattle Seahawks – Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Falcons
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Indianapolis Colts – Steelers
Washington Redskins @ Dallas Cowboys – Redskins
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——— Week 2 Picks ——— 13 Wins – 3 Losses ———
Oakland Raiders @ Buffalo Bills – Bills
Green Bay Packers @ Carolina Panthers – Packers
Kansas City Chiefs @ Detroit Lions – Lions
Cleveland Browns @ Indianapolis Colts – Browns
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Minnesota Vikings – Vikings
Chicago Bears @ New Orleans Saints – Saints
Jacksonville Jaguars @ New York Jets – Jets
Seattle Seahawks @ Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers
Baltimore Ravens @ Tennessee Titans – Ravens
Arizona Cardinals @ Washington Redskins – Redskins
Dallas Cowboys @ San Francisco 49ers – Cowboys
Cincinnati Bengals @ Denver Broncos – Broncos
Houston Texans @ Miami Dolphins – Texans
San Diego Chargers @ New England Patriots – Patriots
Philadelphia Eagles @ Atlanta Falcons – Eagles
St. Louis Rams @ New York Giants – Giants
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——— Week 1 Picks ——— 10 Wins – 6 Losses ———
New Orleans Saints @ Green Bay Packers – Packers
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Baltimore Ravens – Steelers
Atlanta Falcons @ Chicago Bears – Falcons
Cincinnati Bengals @ Cleveland Browns – Browns
Indianapolis Colts @ Houston Texans – Texans
Tennessee Titans @ Jacksonville Jaguars – Jaguars
Buffalo Bills @ Kansas City Chiefs – Chiefs
Philadelphia Eagles @ St. Louis Rams – Eagles
Detroit Lions @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Lions
Carolina Panthers @ Arizona Cardinals – Cardinals
Minnesota Vikings @ San Diego Chargers – Chargers
Seattle Seahawks @ San Francisco 49ers – 49ers
New York Giants @ Washington Redskins – Giants
Dallas Cowboys @ New York Jets – Jets
New England Patriots @ Miami Dolphins – Patriots
Oakland Raiders @ Denver Broncos – Broncos
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Yet Another Democrat Politician Sent To Prison
Good Riddance As State Senator Carl Kruger Goes To Prison For Corruption – New York Daily News
Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger – crass embodiment of Albany piggishness for 17 years – was hit with nine to 11 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption schemes that netted him upward of $1 million.
Finally, appropriate punishment for one of New York’s many brazen politicians who seem to skate every which way into sentences that are little better than those meted out for misdemeanors.
Kruger’s blubbered apology in Manhattan Federal Court was purely pathetic after a 30-year career of serial shakedowns.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the FBI (yes, the same FBI, see above) served the public good with an extensive investigation that at long last nailed a slug who was well known for applying the strong arm at every turn.
And who was backslapped and rewarded with ever greater power by colleagues in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Kruger’s first brush with the law came in 1980, when, as a member of Community Board 18, he was indicted on charges of extorting cash from real estate developers.
He beat the charge and moved on to peddling influence for payoffs from a builder, a hospital executive and an Albany lobbyist – as well as to political extortion.
In 2002, then-Senate GOP boss Joe Bruno made Democrat Kruger a committee chairman and favorably gerrymandered his district because Kruger promised to play ball with the Republicans.
When the Democrats took control in 2008, Kruger was one of the “four amigos” who cynically squeezed the party leadership for special favors. Kruger’s prize was the powerful Finance Committee, which came with a $20,500 stipend and immense sway over billions in state spending.
Of course, he was disastrously unqualified. During negotiations over bailing out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Kruger hilariously suggested that the state should raise cash by borrowing funds and playing the stock market with them.
Meanwhile, he skimmed money all over the place and funneled much of it through a front owned by his “intimate” friend, gynecologist Michael Turano – who also pleaded guilty.
For all the screaming signs of his crookedness, Kruger was not merely tolerated by the powers that be in Albany, but courted and elevated.
Until, that is, he joined the long, sorry perp walk of convicted state legislators.
Good riddance.
H/T Basil Wheel
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Obama Administration Pushes UN Resolution That Bans Criticism Of Islamic Radicalism
Obama Administration Pushes UN Resolution That Bans Criticism Of Islamic Radicalism – Gateway Pundit
Thanks to the Obama Administration – Criticism of Islamic violence will be forbidden.
The Obama Administration helped the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) push through their resolution condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on religion. Team Obama led the way for the resolution to pass through the General Assembly.
CNS News reported:
The U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion, and urging countries to take effective steps “to address and combat such incidents.”
No member state called for a recorded vote on the text, which was as a result adopted “by consensus.”
The resolution, an initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is based on one passed by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in Geneva last spring. The State Department last week hosted a meeting to discuss ways of “implementing” it.
Every year since 1999 the OIC has steered through the U.N.’s human rights apparatus a resolution condemning the “defamation of religion,” which for the bloc of 56 Muslim states covered incidents ranging from satirizing Mohammed in a newspaper cartoon to criticism of shari’a and post-9/11 security check profiling.
Critics regard the measure as an attempt to outlaw valid and critical scrutiny of Islamic teachings, as some OIC states do through controversial blasphemy laws at home.
Strongly opposed by mostly Western democracies, the divisive “defamation” resolution received a dwindling number of votes each year, with the margin of success falling from 57 votes in 2007 to 19 in 2009 and just 12 last year.
This year’s text was a departure, in that it dropped the “defamation” language and included a paragraph that reaffirms “the positive role that the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the full respect for the freedom to seek, receive and impart information can play in strengthening democracy and combating religious intolerance.”
The nod to freedom of expression won the resolution the support of the U.S. and other democracies, with the Obama administration and others hailing it as a breakthrough after years of acrimonious debate.
Doubtful. Look for this new resolution to be used against anyone who dares criticize Islamic violence. Why else would the OIC and Obama push it?
By the way… There have been 18,161 deadly attacks in the name of Islam since 9-11.
Obama doesn’t want you to talk about it.
Top Ten: Government Spending At Its Stupidest
Top Ten: Government Spending At Its Stupidest – Daily Caller
As the fight over how to fix America’s overspending habit ended in a stalemate this year, the federal government spent billions of dollars in 2011 on some unusual projects. And according to a new report from Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, $6.5 billion of it was wasted.
The list includes more than $100,000 on a video game “preservation” center, $120 million in salaries to dead employees and $15.3 million for one of the infamous Bridges to Nowhere — all in a year when the federal deficit rose by nearly $2 trillion.
Coburn’s “Wastebook 2011″ report lists 100 of the most egregious spending boondoggles.
Here are the top 10 most ridiculous things the federal government paid for this year:
10. $764,825 for a study on how college students use cell phones and social media
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Notre Dame this grant to study the mobile and social media habits of college freshmen. We can tell you exactly how college freshmen use mobile phones and social media: for 3 a.m. texts and phone calls to that girl in American History. We could have saved the government a lot of money. Just ask us.
9. $136,555 for teachers to retrace Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in England
This grant, awarded to teachers from Kent State and Eastern Illinois Universities, allowed Middle English lit fanatics to take the trip outlined in Canterbury Tales. We’re betting £10 that the tour guides just make up half of the landmarks.
8. $55,660 on butter packaging
Kriemhild Dairy Farms received this chunk of change to package their grass-fed cow butter. The funding isn’t the only thing that’s too big: The butter itself is 85 percent fat.
7. $606,000 for a study about online dating
Columbia University researchers received over a half-million dollars to study online dating. Maybe the Ivy League nerds who conducted this study should put down the lab coats and go to a bar – or at least the library.
6. $484,000 for a pizza restaurant
Arlington, Texas has one more beer and pizza joint, thanks to this grant to a private developer. The groovy Mellow Mushroom, a national chain, is known for its hippie theme.
5. $48,700 towards the Second Annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival
These funds were awarded to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry. The Aloha State is already full of sandy beaches, clear blue water, and sun. Why do they get all the good stuff? (That’s the mayor of Hershey, Pennsylvania on Line 1.)
4. $147,138 to build a magic museum
Maybe the wizards at the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Mich., can make the federal deficit disappear. The grant was awarded to promote the “history of magic entertainment.”
3. $96,000 on iPads for kindergarteners
One school district in Maine was awarded this grant to buy every kindergarten student the latest Apple gadget. These kids can’t add yet, but thanks to Uncle Sam they’ll never need to.
2. $175,587 for a study on the link between cocaine and the mating habits of quail
The funding for this super-important scientific study is down from its 2010 level of $181,406. But we think the amount is ridiculous for research that proves what the film “Blow” already did: that cocaine is linked to high-risk sexual activity.
1. $130,987 for dragon robots
We think the phrase “dragon robots” sounds pretty cool. But when their purpose is to help develop preschoolers’ vocabulary, that’s when we get a little worried. The National Science Foundation will spend nearly $1 million over four years to determine if the dragon-shaped robot can enhance toddlers’ learning skills – because Elmo and Barney are just so 1990s.
Daily Benefactor News – The Company Ron Paul Keeps
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The Company Ron Paul Keeps – Weekly Standard
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced this month that congressman Ron Paul would not be among the six guests invited to participate in its Republican Presidential Candidates Forum. “He’s just so far outside of the mainstream of the Republican party and this organization,” said Matt Brooks, executive director of the RJC, adding that the group “rejects his misguided and extreme views.”
Paul’s exclusion caused an uproar, with critics alleging that his stand on Israel had earned the RJC’s ire; an absolutist libertarian, Paul opposes foreign aid to all countries, including the Jewish state. “This seems to me more of an attempt to draw boundaries around acceptable policy discourse than any active concern that President Dr. Ron Paul would be actively anti-Israel or anti-Semitic,” wrote Reason editor Matt Welch. Chris McGreal of the Guardian reported that Paul “was barred because of his views on Israel.” Even Seth Lipsky, editor of the New York Sun and a valiant defender of Israel (and friend and mentor of this writer), opined, “The whole idea of an organization of Jewish Republicans worrying about the mainstream strikes me as a bit contradictory.”
While Paul’s views on Israel certainly place him outside the American, never mind Republican, mainstream, there is an even more elementary reason the RJC was right to exclude him from its event. It is Paul’s lucrative and decades-long promotion of bigotry and conspiracy theories, for which he has yet to account fully, and his continuing espousal of extremist views, that should make him unwelcome at any respectable forum, not only those hosted by Jewish organizations.
In January 2008, the New Republic ran my story reporting the contents of monthly newsletters that Paul published throughout the 1980s and 1990s. While a handful of controversial passages from these bulletins had been quoted previously, I was able to track down nearly the entire archive, scattered between the University of Kansas and the Wisconsin Historical Society (both of which housed the newsletters in collections of extreme right-wing American political literature). Though particular articles rarely carried a byline, the vast majority were written in the first person, while the title of the newsletter, in its various iterations, always featured Paul’s name: Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter. What I found was unpleasant.
“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks,” read a typical article from the June 1992 “Special Issue on Racial Terrorism,” a supplement to the Ron Paul Political Report. Racial apocalypse was the most persistent theme of the newsletters; a 1990 issue warned of “The Coming Race War,” and an article the following year about disturbances in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was entitled “Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo.” Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., “the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” had also “seduced underage girls and boys.” The man who would later proclaim King a “hero” attacked Ronald Reagan for signing legislation creating the federal holiday in his name, complaining, “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
No conspiracy theory was too outlandish for Paul’s endorsement. One newsletter reported on the heretofore unknown phenomenon of “Needlin’,” in which “gangs of black girls between the ages of 12 and 14″ roamed the streets of New York and injected white women with possibly HIV-infected syringes. Another newsletter warned that “the AIDS patient” should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because “AIDS can be transmitted by saliva,” a strange claim for a physician to make.
Paul gave credence to the theory, later shown to have been the product of a Soviet disinformation effort, that AIDS had been created in a U.S. government laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Three months before far-right extremists killed 168 Americans in Oklahoma City, Paul’s newsletter praised the “1,500 local militias now training to defend liberty” as “one of the most encouraging developments in America.” And he offered specific advice to antigovernment militia members, such as, “Keep the group size down,” “Keep quiet and you’re harder to find,” “Leave no clues,” “Avoid the phone as much as possible,” and “Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
If the above were not enough to place Paul beyond the pale for the RJC, what the congressman had to say about Jews and Israel would probably be a deal-breaker. No foreign country was mentioned in the newsletters more often than Israel. A 1987 newsletter termed it “an aggressive, national socialist state,” and another missive, on the subject of the 1993 World Trade Center attack, concluded, “Whether it was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.” In 1990, the newsletter cast aspersions on the “tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise.”
This is just a sample of the hateful and conspiratorial nonsense that Paul promoted for decades under his own name. His response to the revelations was nothing short of unbelievable. “The quotations in the New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed,” he said. “When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.” In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer two days after the article appeared, Paul waved away accusations of racism by saying that he was “gaining ground with the blacks” and “getting more votes right now and more support from the blacks.”
Yet a subsequent report by Reason found that Ron Paul & Associates, the defunct company that published the newsletters and which counted Paul and his wife as officers, reported an income of nearly $1 million in 1993 alone. If this figure is reliable, Paul must have earned multiple millions of dollars over the two decades plus of the newsletters’ existence. It is incredible that he had less than an active interest in what was being printed as part of a subscription newsletter enterprise that earned him and his family millions of dollars. Ed Crane, the president of the Cato Institute, said Paul told him that “his best source of congressional campaign donations was the mailing list for the Spotlight, the conspiracy-mongering, anti-Semitic tabloid run by the Holocaust denier Willis Carto.”
This sordid history would not bear repeating but for the fact that the media love to portray Paul as a truth-telling, antiwar Republican standing up to the “hawkish” conservative establishment. Otherwise, the newsletters, and Paul’s continued failure to name their author, would be mentioned in every story about him, and he would be relegated to the fringe where he belongs. But Paul has escaped the sort of media scrutiny that would bury other political figures. A December 15 profile of Paul in the Washington Post, for instance, affectionately described his love of gardening and The Sound of Music and judged that “world events have conspired to make him look increasingly on point” – all without any mention of the newsletter controversy. Though present at nearly every Republican debate, he has yet to be asked about the newsletters. Had Paul’s persona and views changed significantly since 2008, this oversight might be understandable. But he continues to say and do things suggesting that, far from disowning the statements he has claimed “do not represent what I believe or have ever believed,” he still believes them.
In the four years since my article appeared, Paul has gone right on appearing regularly on the radio program of Alex Jones, the most popular conspiracy theorist in America (unless that distinction belongs to Paul himself). To understand Jones’s paranoid worldview, it helps to watch a recent documentary he produced, Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, which reveals the secret plot of George Pataki, David Rockefeller, and Queen Beatrix, among other luminaries, to exterminate humanity and transform themselves into “superhuman” computer hybrids able to “travel throughout the cosmos.” There is nothing Jones believes the American government isn’t capable of, from “[encouraging] homosexuality with chemicals so that people don’t have children” to blowing up the Space Shuttle Columbia, a “textbook psychological warfare operation.”
In a March 2009 interview, Paul entertained Jones’s claim that NORTHCOM, the U.S. military’s combatant command for North America, is “taking over” the country. “The average member of Congress probably isn’t a participant in the grand conspiracy,” Paul reassured the fevered host, essentially acknowledging that such a conspiracy exists. “We need to take out the CIA.” On Paul’s latest appearance on the Jones show, just last week, he called allegations that Iran had attempted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States a “propaganda stunt” of the Obama administration. In a January 2010 speech, Paul announced, “There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup” against the American government. “They’re in businesses, in drug businesses,” the congressman added.
Likewise, Paul’s insistence that America should be a “friend” of Israel is belied by public statements like one from a November 22 GOP debate: “Why do we have this automatic commitment that we’re going to send our kids and send our money endlessly to Israel?” This is an echo of Pat Buchanan’s 1990 claim that if the United States went to war against Saddam Hussein it would be on behalf of Israel, and that “kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales, and Leroy Brown” would be the ones doing the fighting and dying. The assertion that American soldiers are risking their lives to protect Israel and not the United States is as false today as it was two decades ago.
Last, Paul continues to be the favorite candidate of those who believe that the United States either orchestrated the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, or allowed them to happen in order to create the pretext for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s not hard to understand why. In a December 9 speech to supporters in Iowa, Paul had this to say: “Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq.”
Paul’s more mainstream supporters have always explained away his popularity with 9/11 “Truthers” as an unfortunate consequence of his altruistic, if at times naive, libertarian ethos: The man just loves freedom so much that he’s loath to turn away backers who may think differently from him. To anyone who bothers to look into Ron Paul’s record, that claim is simply not credible.
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The best endorsement for Rick Perry I have yet seen or read
From Ace, who lays out solid reasons for supporting Rick Perry for president. It is long, but worth the time invested. I have tried my best to lay out my reasons for supporting Perry, and Ace touches many of the same reasons. Go read it all.
As an aside, some other blogger, whom I respect immensely is endorsing Santorum, who would be my second choice. Santorum is a good guy, and solid as a Conservative, but he is not as qualified as Perry is. I, unlike this Other blogger will not go negative or say ugly things about his candidate, and I will never use Michele Bachmann’s fallacious attacks either. Lord knows what Bachmann would say about Santorum if he ever gets to leading the polls. Likely that he eats kittens or something.
So when I lashed out at Ace for his endorsement of Rick Perry, you’ve got to view this as an emotional reaction to campaign-induced stress. And also because anybody who endorses Perry is either dishonest or naive, or quite possibly retarded by the Gardasil vaccine.
See, I understand that RS McCain, blogging genius, is joking. Or maybe he is just worried about Bama losing to LSU. I know that he will be on Team Perry when Perry is nominated, and he will enjoy the way Perry turns America around.
Ron Paul Says Accused Traitor Is A Patriot
Ron Paul Says Accused Traitor Is A Patriot – New Zeal
As homosexual Army soldier Bradley Manning’s treason trial continues at Fort Meade, Maryland, the support he has received from Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has been curiously ignored by the major media, now touting Paul as someone who could win the January 3 Iowa Republican Caucuses. Paul has called Manning, a crossdresser with acknowledged mental problems, a “hero” and “patriot” for stealing government secrets and providing them to WikiLeaks.
Manning, who served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, is charged with one of the most spectacular and damaging leaks of classified information in this country’s history. The death penalty has been strangely ruled out in his case, but he could still face life in prison.
Admiral Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the “irresponsible posting of stolen classified documents by WikiLeaks puts lives at risk and gives adversaries valuable information.”
The Ron Paul 2012 website shows a young Ron Paul in a military uniform and as someone who would pursue a “pro-America foreign policy.” It says, “As an Air Force veteran, Ron Paul believes national defense is the single most important responsibility the Constitution entrusts to the federal government.”
It says nothing about the Congressman’s support for accused Army traitor Bradley Manning.
However, speaking at a campaign rally, Paul said that while Manning may have “technically” broken the law against releasing classified information to WikiLeaks, he did so for the purpose of exposing the “horrible things” being carried out by the U.S. Government.
Referring to Manning’s detention before trial, Paul said, “Should he be locked up and imprisoned?” Manning should be seen as a “political hero” and “true patriot who reveals what’s going on,” Paul said.
The Bradley Manning Support Network published an article saying that Paul believes that Manning is a “whistleblower” and his actions “are essential to the country.”
There is no evidence that Manning, who flaunted his homosexuality in the Army, in violation of the “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy, was a member of a communist or leftist group. But his supporters come predominantly from the far-left. His backers include the Movement for a Democratic Society, a group of former Weather Underground members and radicals that includes Obama associate and terrorist Bill Ayers.
The Advisory Board of the Bradley Manning Support Network includes Robert Meeropol, whose parents, communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were convicted of violating the Espionage Act and executed for giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Meeropol says “it is an honor to join a Board that includes Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, as well as Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, and filmmaker Michael Moore, among others, but also because I believe it is imperative for as many people as possible to raise their voices in support of Manning.”
On October 28, speaking in Iowa, Paul praised WikiLeaks for providing secret information about the conduct of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Moscow-funded Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel features a Paul speech in which the Congressman offered “his support to whistleblowers, applauding WikiLeaks in particular for exposing political fallacies.”
In another broadcast, Paul attacked “state secrecy” and praised WikiLeaks for revealing “spying and meddling” by the U.S. Government.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who says he publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct, is currently facing deportation from Britain on sex crimes charges.
Vice President Joseph Biden has said about Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks disclosures, “I would argue it’s closer to being a high-tech terrorist than the Pentagon Papers.”
In a New Yorker article, “Manning, Assange, and the Espionage Act,” Raffi Khatchadourian said that Manning “appears to have broken a very clearly defined set of laws.” And First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told National Public Radio that while media organizations which publicized the WikiLeaks material will not face prosecution, Assange himself could be prosecuted by the U.S. Government under the Espionage Act.
More than a year ago, Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act. He also wants Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate WikiLeaks a foreign terrorist organization.
The evidence introduced this week at Manning’s pretrial hearing appears to prove that Manning and Assange worked together, a development that should make it easier for the Obama Department of Justice to prosecute Assange for conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act.
In a Daily Caller article, “Why conservatives must adopt Ron Paul’s foreign policy,” Jack Hunter writes that Paul is asking the “basic questions that Americans desperately need to ask” about U.S. foreign policy. But Hunter, the official Ron Paul 2012 campaign blogger, didn’t address or explain Paul’s support for Manning.
The Ron Paul website insists that the candidate supports an American intelligence community that deals with “legitimate threats” but doesn’t explain how this is compatible with a system whereby “whistleblowers” like Manning decide on their own what classified information the government should be able to keep.
Bastards!
The Left loathes everything that is traditional in America. And this story, about banning Santa, points that out.
A Massachusetts school system banned Santa Claus from visiting schools this year.
He’s too controversial.
FOX Nation reported:A Massachusetts school system is embroiled in a war on Christmas debate after Santa Claus was initially banned from visiting elementary school children over “religious” concerns.
Since 1960 firefighters in the town of Saugus dressed up like Santa Claus and visited every elementary school handing out coloring books. But on Monday, the school superintendent told firefighters that they would not be welcomed into the classrooms.
The lie the Left tries to sell us is that they are trying not to “offend anyone. That is a lie, they are intent on destroying America. And, to effectively destroy a nation it’s history, heritage, and culture must be systematically eradicated. EVERYTHING that is traditional, therefore is a target. To erase a nation’s, a people’s heritage, and history is key to what the Left intends to do here in America. Our common heritage, and culture bonds us, it makes us special, if that is taken away……… That is why it is so crucial to fight these miscreants at every turn.
Also check out my blogging partner Ed’s post on this
School Bans Santa Claus Because Leftist Superintendent Is Hateful Douchebag
School Bans Santa Claus Over “Religious” Concerns –
A school in Massachusetts has banned Santa Claus from visiting their school over “religious” concerns. Contrary to the schools ban, Santa Claus has no Biblical story behind him. Santa is in no way a religious figure.
Fox News Radio reported:
A Massachusetts school system is embroiled in a war on Christmas debate after Santa Claus was initially banned from visiting elementary school children over “religious” concerns.
Since 1960 firefighters in the town of Saugus dressed up like Santa Claus and visited every elementary school handing out coloring books. But on Monday, the school superintendent told firefighters that they would not be welcomed into the classrooms.
“Certainly everyone acknowledges their holiday in a special way they want. But there is a conflict between the church and the state in that regard,” Superintendent Richard Langlois told MyFoxBoston.com.
However, Santa Claus is not a religious figure – and is not mentioned anywhere in the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus.
Regardless, the superintendent stood by his decision until word began to spread across the community. By late Monday, Santa had been given a temporary reprieve. The Saugus School Committee is expected to address the issue next month – meaning Santa’s days may be numbered.
“I couldn’t believe it,” firefighter Mark Gannon told MyFoxBoston.com. “There are so many things in the world going on – to see that all of a sudden Santa can’t go to the schools – what else are we going to give up?”
Gannon said he’s been participating in the Christmas tradition for the past 14 years – and said the children absolutely love to see Old Saint Nick.
“It’s a great thing,” he said.
Superintendent Langlois defended his Santa ban – saying he was simply enforcing the rules.
“I’m carrying out the orders of the school community,” he said. “I’m not overstepping my bounds.”
But the firefighters said there is absolutely nothing religious about what they are doing.
Ya know, I completely forgot to share my thoughts on the passing of……….
That rotten waste of human skin, Kim Jong Il. But, I suppose I should say something right? Maybe YA-FREAKING-HOO sums it up best! Now, if only Castro, and Chavez and the leaders of Hamas, and Hezbollah will follow suit, I will really be doing the Happy Dance
This will lead to no good at all
The United Useless Nations is at it again, pandering to Islamists who wish only to dominate the globe
The U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion, and urging countries to take effective steps “to address and combat such incidents.”
No member state called for a recorded vote on the text, which was as a result adopted “by consensus.”
The resolution, an initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is based on one passed by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in Geneva last spring. The State Department last week hosted a meeting to discuss ways of “implementing” it.
Every year since 1999 the OIC has steered through the U.N.’s human rights apparatus a resolution condemning the “defamation of religion,” which for the bloc of 56 Muslim states covered incidents ranging from satirizing Mohammed in a newspaper cartoon to criticism of shari’a and post-9/11 security check profiling.
Critics regard the measure as an attempt to outlaw valid and critical scrutiny of Islamic teachings, as some OIC states do through controversial blasphemy laws at home.
Strongly opposed by mostly Western democracies, the divisive “defamation” resolution received a dwindling number of votes each year, with the margin of success falling from 57 votes in 2007 to 19 in 2009 and just 12 last year.
Gee, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Ron Paul: Conspiracy Nut, Anti-Semite (Video)
Ron Paul: Conspiracy Nut, Anti-Semite – Publius Forum
Last year Ron Paul said that the CIA perpetrated a coup over the United States. “There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses.” That fits in as just another part of the wacky world of Ron Paul that has spanned decades of denigrating blacks, assigning all sorts of crazy conspiracies to the US government, and above all hatred for Israel. It is a disgusting sin that this man is a political candidate for anything much less for the GOP nomination for President of the United States.
A lot of the credit for exposing the worst of Paul’s outrages belongs to James Kirchick who in 2008 wrote a short piece for The New Republic detailing what he found in an archive of Ron Paul’s racist newsletters.
Also back in 2008, then Fox News host John Gibson had a must hear interview with Kirchick asking why so many white supremacists and racists were in such slavish support of Ron Paul when he ran for president in 2008.
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Aside from his racist newsletters, Kirchick notes that in 1994, Paul predicted a “holocaust” against South African whites and then advocated for a separate white state in South Africa. Kirchick also says Paul seemed to support the same thing in America.
This week Kirchick wrote a follow up piece on Paul’s 1970s era newsletters that is much more informative than his 2008 piece. In the piece published by The Weekly Standard Kirchick gives a lot more examples of the sort of racist nonsense these newsletters disgorged onto subscribers.
Paul defends himself against the contents of his newsletters by claiming that he never much bothered to read what was being published under his name by his various publishing firms and projects. He then claims not to have supported the racism and off the wall conspiracy theories contained in them.
Kirchick sums his latest piece up with this:
Paul’s more mainstream supporters have always explained away his popularity with 9/11 “Truthers” as an unfortunate consequence of his altruistic, if at times naïve, libertarian ethos: The man just loves freedom so much that he’s loath to turn away backers who may think differently from him. To anyone who bothers to look into Ron Paul’s record, that claim is simply not credible.
Now, let’s look at this young Mr. Kirchick. He is generally centrist, sometimes left of center, to be sure. Kirchick is also gay. However, he calls himself a “gay recovering leftist,” and supported the Iraq war and other military interventions of the Bush era. He has in the past preferred the label “libertarian” to any other. He is one of the few writers that has found outlets in both left and right leaning magazines and newspapers. So, there is his pedigree for those interested.
For me, I’ve read all of Kirchick’s articles on Paul and his points seem quite solid to me. Understanding Kirchick’s political proclivities and taking those into consideration, I find what he’s written about Paul to be solid.
What it reveals to me is the utter shame that Ron Paul is thought to be a worthy candidate in any GOP primary for any position whatever. I tend to see that his fan base of racists, Jew haters, and conspiracy nuts don’t tend to vote for the most part and in talking to many of his ardent – and cultic – supporters over the last few years I see people that do not fit in at all with the rest of the GOP. In fact, in talking to his supporters I find few of them have any knowledge at all of politics outside of “Doctor Paul’s” take on it. They see the whole world through the Paul prism and aren’t well informed otherwise. I also feel that most of them will just fade away once Paul himself finally goes away in 2012 (Paul announced that he won’t run for reelection to his House seat, so unless he wins the White House his political career seems to be over).
I’d like to note that this is no new position for me. Back in September I wrote a similar piece lambasting Ron Paul. In that piece I also note that Paul appeals to only on small wing of the GOP: the economic wing. I noted then and still believe that he is a disaster for the national security wing and the family values wings of the party. A candidate that appeals to only one third of a party base is unelectable.
But even that appeal is among people that are blissfully unaware of his racist past, his associations with wackos, and his support of every conspiracy theory that have come down the pike from the Bilderbergers to the one that claims the CIA started the AIDS virus.
Finally, even if Ron Paul was able to credibly claim he isn’t really an anti-Semite, the fact that he has for decades and until this very day accepted the support of and cavorted with such people is a disqualifier.
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