Hillary Clinton's dream date is her fellow warmongering police-statist...Abraham Lincoln. (Thanks to Heidi Wyss.)
And in more than book sales, as America is discovering. Here is the CNN Political Ticker on his book success.
Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto is already the bestselling libertarian book in history, and it's only begun.
Congratulations to Tom DiLorenzo, who has won two prizes in two weeks:
1. The Loyola College Department Chair's Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics; and
2. The Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education from the Prague University of Economics, presented to him at the Prague Conference on Political Economy, April 18.
A friend sent around a link to the [T]Reason blog, and it is indeed a dark day for the cosmopolitan/celebrate depravity wing of self-described libertarians. The reason why [T]Reason is so collectively depressed: Ron Paul's magnificent new book is #1 on Amazon.com and will be #7 on the New York Times bestseller list this Sunday.
They're just besides themselves and don't know what to do. Some of the anonymous blogging nobodies are resorting to badmouthing authors that Ron cites in his footnotes, such as myself. Others are surprised beyond belief that there are no kind words for the KKK or neo-Nazis in Ron's book. (I guess drug consumption in LA really is as pervasive as it is portrayed on television).
And to think that some of you thought these people were interested in spreading the ideas of freedom. Ha! Suckers!
On Sunday May 11, Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto will debut at #7 on the New York Times Bestseller List (that's 7 out of 15, so it's above the fold, so to speak).
In some ways, since the Times tracks brick-and-mortar store sales, this is more impressive than the Amazon #1. Even the big chains are not stocking the book heavily yet. But this recognition will change all that. #1 is more than possible on the NYT list too.
Uh oh. Now they've gone and done it. Iran has dissed the Fed and its dollar by saying it wants to be paid in euros and yen only for its oil. The murderous Bush, who was already itching to nuke the Persians, must be dreaming of mass death at this moment. (Thanks to Rachel.)
There are now 100 customer reviews of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto on Amazon.com; 98% of them are 5-star, which is unprecedented.
As I predicted over a year ago on LRC the increase in illegal immigration from Mexico was caused by the housing bubble and that when the bubble burst that some illegals would return home. It appears from recent statistics that this is already happening.
The amount of money sent home by Mexican workers (remittances) peaked in spring of 2006 and has declined 17% by the winter quarter of this year. The size of the average remittance actually peaked between the bursting of the home building stock bubble in July 2005 and the initial recognition of the housing bubble by the MSM in early 2006 and has declined by 30%. The steep decline in remittances indicates that Mexican workers are earning less money, have fewer jobs, and maybe starting to return to Mexico.
Statistics from the U.S. Border Patrol indicate that despite increased enforcement efforts that the number of illegal Mexican that have been detained has decreased by 50% between 2005 and 2007. The number of non-Mexicans (most Central Americans) that have been detained has decreased by almost 60%.
How many illegal immigrants actually return home is anyone's guess, but as the US sinks deeper and deeper into recession (esp. in industries that supplied the most jobs to illegals), the less likely that Mexicans will cross into the US and the more likely to illegals will go home.
In any case, it helps us understand that the "fence" is less of a national priority and more just another giant unworkable public works project wasting the taxpayers money.
Writes Jeremy Vielmas: "The Revolution is now the #1 seller in all categories on Amazon! It's been rising slowly from #10 all day and now it's right where it belongs. I ordered 10 more at the 45% off rate for good measure."
Writes Dan Brower: "I have much experience with Texas CPS and most of it is negative. It's a long story, but an attorney pulled me aside during a hearing and told me that CPS had very little to do with child welfare and everything to do with Medicaid money the state of Texas collects for each child in custody.
"To me this entire exercise, by the state of Texas, smells like a rat. While the welfare of those children and rights of the parents are trampled, I wonder; is this act, by the state of Texas and the media frenzy that surrounds them, designed to deflect national public attention away from the Trans-Texas Corridor and the eminent domain seizures?"
The LA Times political blog: "If anybody thought the Ron Paul Revolution had expired, they need to rethink that one.
"Clearly, the 72-year-old libertarian-minded Texas representative was not going to win the Republican Party's nomination this year with his 12, 20 or 42 delegates, whomever you believe. Sen. John McCain already has enough to win the GOP nod in St. Paul in September. So Paul has taken his well-funded campaign and gone rather underground to the local level where his loyal Paulunteers are organizing and taking over numerous county party operations in several states." Read the rest.
Worry no longer. Government hiring is zooming.
Writes Scott A. Calvert: "Your website and articles are a constant source of joy to me. I would like to thank you for being a fundamental influence in my life over the last five years. In 2002 I was lamenting some facet of our Canadian leviathan at a Toronto Blue Jays game, probably too loudly, when a kindly older gentleman leaned over from the row behind me and said, 'you sound like a libertarian'. He told me to visit your site and even wrote in on my ticket stub, which I have kept to this day. Thank you, Mr. Rockwell, for showing me the way."
Albert Hofmann, RIP. He and his drug had an unfortunate relationship with the CIA, however, as did the late Timothy Leary. To Tim's credit, however, he was a strong supporter of Ron Paul in his 1988 presidential run, and held a fundraiser for Ron at his spectacular Hollywood Hills home.
One way the government can make joblessness look like less of a problem is to hire the people who are out of work. Thus, while private companies laid off 286,000 employees during the first quarter of 2008, governments hired 76,800. Of course, this merely masks the problem and, in addition, diverts needed resources from the productive private sector to the parasitical public sector. Remember how much FDR's make-work programs did for the Depression?
According to the NYT:
Mr. Wright suggested that the attacks of Sept. 11 were at least in part a response by terrorists to terrorism practiced by the United States abroad. “You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you,” he said.
Obama's response definitively shows that he is a warmongerer and foreign policy will not change if he is elected:
When [Wright] states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as...he equates the US wartime efforts with terrorism, there are no excuses.
Is Obama referring to Wright's quote in the NYT? We were not "at war" for about a decade before the 9/11 attacks, so there could not have been a legitimate "wartime effort." But we did have a number of military interventions, we maintained international military bases, and we financially supported many unsavory regimes in the years leading to 9/11. There is only one true Peace Candidate, but, perhaps because he represents real change, he is not a media darling like McHillbama:
Too often we have supported those who turn on us, like the Kosovars who aid Islamic terrorists, or the Afghan jihadists themselves, and their friend Osama bin Laden. We armed and trained them, and now we’re paying the price.
This November will be, if the neocons get their way, a demonstration of the neocon idea of democracy: an all-neocon election that the neocons cannot lose. Hillary Strangelove will face John McStrangelove, a left-fascist against a right-fascist, both of them committed to perpetual war in the Middle East, the police and national security state, and global empire. (Thanks to Kev Hall for the URL.)
Writes Ron Paul: "Today is an exciting day for our campaign and our movement: my new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, is officially released.
""Although a short book, it is the product of many years of thought and action. It is a defense of the principles to which you and I have devoted our lives.
"My friends are calling it 'Ron Paul’s legacy.'
"These principles – individual liberty, sound money, the Constitution, and the foreign policy of the Founding Fathers – have had no home in American politics for a very long time. With The Revolution: A Manifesto, I’m letting the establishment know we’re not going away.
"Finally, Americans can hear and judge these great American principles for themselves, instead of through an unfriendly media filter. And they can learn once and for all that they need not be satisfied with the phony choices the system offers them every four years. Another way really is possible.
"Two days ago I did a book signing in New York at the Borders on Wall Street. All 530 copies had been sold before I even arrived.
"They had underestimated you again.
"Imagine the attention our cause and our principles could attract with a fantastic opening day today, with people marching into bookstores across the country for their copies. If it should become a publishing phenomenon, The Revolution: A Manifesto can fuel our revolution for a long time to come. You can make that happen.
"I hope you enjoy this book, which was a real labor of love for me. Please spread the word.
"And may the future be ours."
For this spy device, though maybe, in this fasciat economy and national-security state, it has no choice but to be part of the regime. BTW, can private protection against it be far away?
