The Lincoln (NE) Journal-Star (on-line) is reporting that, thus far, McCain has 89% of the GOP votes (17,003) while Ron Paul has 11% (2,071). For Nebraska, that is a surprising percentage for Ron.
What a hilarious story! Cops these days can quite literally taser all they want and go unscathed. Yet a college student throws some M&Ms at the police and gets arrested for assault. Had he used a Baby Ruth or one of those giant one pound Hershy's, the college kid would have probably been fried at the chair.
Ron Paul will be on C-SPAN2's Book TV on May 18 at 9:00am and May 26 at 7:00pm to discuss his new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto. (Times are Eastern.)
Ron Paul supporters head to the Republican beatification in Minneapolis-St. Paul to dissent from the belligerent social nationalism of McCain.
A reader adds an interesting detail on the seizure of "unclaimed" property:
Stephen, in reference to your blog post on LRC regarding the state of DE and unclaimed revenue...a state politicians son was employed in this revenue generating department and was indicted for stealing over 1 million $ from this lucrative pool of free money. http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2008/02/05/representative-vince-lofink-on-his-sons-guilty-plea/. I'm sure you're not surprised.
WebsiteOutlook.com, whose figures on economic worth and daily pageviews I reported in LRC vs. the Beltway, lists almost all websites. Here are some conservative and libertarian think-tanks and educational organizations, ranked by daily pageviews according to WOC:
Mises Institute: 45,433
Heritage Foundation: 43,562
Cato Institute: 27, 186
American Enterprise Institute: 9,507
Heartland Institute: 8,102
Foundation for Economic Education: 5,247
Institute for Humane Studies: 4,596
Reason Foundation: 3,121
Claremont Institute: 2,514
Mercatus Center: 717
Writes Rick Fisk: "As much as I do not appreciate the Council on Foreign Relations and what it seeks to accomplish, its page on Dr. Paul is one of the best compilations of his positions I've ever seen."
Remember when the FAA grounded hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights because Southwest had not met the FAA's arbitrary deadline for making a small wiring change that did not create a significant safety hazard?
Well, the FAA has just missed its third deadline for providing records to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in regard to a genuine safety hazard, namely 1,800+ airline mechanics who obtained their certificates fraudulently. The FAA has tested only a small fraction of those known to have obtained licenses from a "license mill" in Florida, and even then it has only partially tested them.
What is the OSC's response to this intransigence? Is the FAA punished? Does the OSC hold press conferences to denounce the FAA for ignoring the public safety in pursuit of its own agenda? Nope. It issues yet another 30-day extension for the FAA merely to provide information on the mechanic situation. An OSC spokesman justified this on the basis that "the agency is dealing with other issues, such as the grounded flights issue and recent congressional hearings." Funny how Southwest wasn't given any breaks like that despite dealing with such issues as high fuel costs and the stupid, unconstitutional TSA.
UPDATE: I had the Southwest story not quite right. Southwest found the wiring problem and reported it to the FAA, which then proceeded to ground most of American Airlines' flights. (Thanks to John Michael Hall for the correction.)
