Writes David Kinchen in the Huntington News: "Once again, a major political party -- the Republicans -- has rejected the one candidate who tells the truth; we're faced with the same old choices this November, between two Republicrats, Obama and McCain. It's no choice at all to an ornery registered Democrat like me who has strayed off the reservation many times.

"The candidate that I wanted to vote for -- again -- was and is U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, and his No. 1 New York Times bestselling book "The Revolution: A Manifesto" (Grand Central Publishing, 192 pages, $21) describes the mess we're in and how to return the U.S. to the nation the Founding Fathers envisioned.

"I was right when I voted for Ron Paul when he ran for President on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1988 and millions of Americans saw the wisdom of this 10-term congressman when they contributed millions of dollars to his Internet fundraising campaign earlier this year. Paul's book was published in April, but it's a timeless guide to solving the nation's problems, from our endless search for 'monsters to destroy' in the immortal words of John Adams, to our creation of government agencies that were never authorized by the Constitution to the bailout of financial institutions to the trillions of dollars of unfunded mandates brought on by imperial government.

"The 72-year-old obstetrician -- he turns 73 on Aug. 20 -- has been dubbed 'Dr. No' and I for one applaud his rejection of bloated government. When he was growing up, he says, there was no federal Department of Education and he rightly says education was better for it. Since Paul is only a couple of years my senior, I couldn't agree more.

"Here are some things Ron Paul opposes: the federal income tax, foreign aid, "going abroad in search of monsters to destroy"; U.S. troops in 130 nations -- including 75,000 in Germany and tens of thousands in Korea; the World Trade Organization; NAFTA; NATO; the Patriot Act; the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan; the United Nations; the Federal Reserve System -- he wants a return to hard money that existed in this nation until 1933 when FDR abolished it -- and bailouts of financial institutions, including the most recent one, the so-called Mortgage Reform Act just passed by the Senate and sent to President Bush for his signature." Read the rest.