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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 29, 2008 03:23 PM
There was a huge and noisy anti-bailout demo outside the Capitol this morning, festooned with signs saying "Mises Was Right" and "Austrian Economics Is Right." Ron also pointed out how great it is to have the predator-establishment defeated on Mises's...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 29, 2008 01:46 PM
What a heroic day! The people rose up against a coalition of every evil group in America: the central bank, Wall Street plutocrats, politicians, banksters, think tanks (including the pseudo-libertarian sort), big media, big academia, and big business, and won....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 29, 2008 01:12 PM
In order to feel good about themselves, politicos who perpetuate disastrous political policies come out with the canard of the nobodies. Examples include "Nobody thought the internet bubble would burst," "Nobody predicted the Iraq War would be a disaster," and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 29, 2008 01:02 PM
(Thanks to Tim Swanson)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 29, 2008 10:21 AM
Mr. Ostrowski, My support for Ron Paul's presidential campaign led me to LewRockwell.com, and I've been visiting the site as often as I can for the better part of a year now. The good Dr. Paul not only "cured my...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 29, 2008 07:39 AM
Writes Charles Burris:You are on-target in your assessment of the current moment as having potential revolutionary consequences against the power elite in both its Washington and Wall Street manifestations. Both the "objective" and "subjective" conditions are present and are continuing...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 27, 2008 08:40 PM
Lew, now perhaps the red-state fascists realize how foolish they were to dismiss Ron, and not to give him the airtime they gave the invincibly ignorant McCain et al. Too late, guys. You have been wed to the GOP because...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 27, 2008 06:06 PM
(Thanks to Kalim Kassam)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 27, 2008 04:59 PM
McBama favors the Billionaire Bailout. McBama won't say what programs have to be cut to pay for the Billionaire Bailout. McBama thinks "we should never hesitate to use military force." McBama wants to escalate the other unwinnable "land war in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 27, 2008 08:00 AM
Right after endorsing a trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street, McCain points out that Obama supported hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks. These guys should be slapped for every minute they waste arguing over drops in the bucket. Of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 26, 2008 08:16 PM
If this week has proved anything it's Bastiat's famous dictum: Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. When asked by U.S. News and World Report what he thought about bailing...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 26, 2008 06:19 PM
The pro-Fed Kochtopus is indeed either making excuses for the bailout or remaining silent. Most pathetically, the Cato Institute is planning a November conference on "Lessons from the Subprime Crisis" where the main "featured speakers" are three Fed bureaucrats, a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 26, 2008 01:22 PM
Since Rep. Barney Frank has emerged as the point man in this whole bailout business, it seems to me that Republicans actually can claim some of the mantle of 1994 and let Frank and the Democrats carry the water. After...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 26, 2008 09:34 AM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 26, 2008 08:21 AM
Ron Paul, of course, according to the poll. (Thanks to Dave and everyone else who emailed links.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 26, 2008 05:55 AM
As everyone around here knows, Jim, I hate the Republicans as much as anyone, and even more than I hate the Democrats. And I don't trust the motives of any of them (Ron Paul doesn't count, of course). But if...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 25, 2008 06:42 PM
Writes Jim Sheehan: "I just walked by the New York Stock Exchange. Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered to protest the government's bailout of Wall Street. Several were holding placards that read 'Stop the bailout! Read The Road to Serfdom by...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 25, 2008 05:45 PM
Writes Jay Roberts: "One of the great things about being a Ron Paul/LRC supporter, even more than now being able to deliver atomic 'I told you so's' to those who formerly laughed/indulged, is that one should now be financially prepared...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 25, 2008 02:04 PM
Writes Mike Martin: "So the plan is for the government to buy a whole bunch of garbage that the sellers don't want to sell at a market price, hold on to this rotten junk while pumping more money into the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 25, 2008 12:38 PM
Don't miss the Bob Higgs podcast on the phony financial crisis, or Stephan Kinsella on intellectual "property" or Bill Sardi on the murderous FDA. The champion podcast continues to be Ron Paul on the Panic; its downloads have used 100...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 24, 2008 10:08 PM
Writes Craig Spanton: "Thanks: For everything I have learned as a student of Austrian Economics for the past 15 years. Sorry: For thinking 'Oh no, please Ron Paul, monetary policy is not part of a winning presidential campaign.' "I feel...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 24, 2008 09:05 PM
Thanks to the friend who pointed out that the pseudo-libertarian Beltway mag can't stay away from attacking Ron Paul. Of course, their plutocratic Funder has despised Ron for almost a quarter of a century, ever since he refused to stop...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 24, 2008 06:00 PM
Writes Joshua Backing: "I just noticed McCain's 'Reform, Prosperity, Peace' banner. If he replaced 'Reform' with 'Gold', maybe he would be on to something. It is too bad for him that Ron Paul already wrote the book."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 24, 2008 05:57 PM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 24, 2008 03:21 PM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 24, 2008 01:34 PM
What bartender has not heard from drunks the same argument that Treasury Secretary Paulson is making to a Senate Committee in suggesting that we can have a critical debate on reform later, what we need now is a bailout? "I...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 23, 2008 10:30 AM
Isn't it amazing how the same media that ignored and marginalized Ron Paul during the GOP primaries suddenly has decided his opinion matters? Perhaps it's because he's the only politician not sticking up for federal bailouts (contra Rush Limbaugh, who...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 23, 2008 08:34 AM
At his counter-press conference, Barr criticized Ron's coalition of third parties and their joint platform. Ron was diluting the pro-liberty cause, said Barr. Ron should make up his mind and choose one candidate to support, added the Bobster. Well, Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 22, 2008 04:31 PM
The power elite is in a big hurry. They want this bailout of the super rich to be enacted quickly before the champions of the taxpayers and the working class have time to read the bills and expose the Fed's...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 22, 2008 06:23 AM
UPDATE Here is the LA Times political blog on Ron as the one opponent of the bailout crime....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 21, 2008 07:06 PM
As one of the countless libertarians whose life has been enriched by Burt Blumert's friendship, I was thrilled to see that the Ludwig Von Mises Institute has published a a collection of Burt's LRC esays. As Lew and David recount,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 21, 2008 02:44 PM
Here are two more strikes against Palin, and they are bad ones. 1. Jim Bovard reported last week on the Antiwar.com blog that Palin made this incredible statement in a speech to U.S. troops departing for Iraq: soldiers would be...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 20, 2008 09:06 PM
On Bill Maher's Real Time "Overtime" podcast of 9/13/08 (from 2:09 to 3:09), Maher and guests (Janeane Garofalo, John Fund, Roseanne Barr), discuss Ron Paul -- Bill wonders whether Paul will "stick to his anachro-capitalist principles and refuse federal aid"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 19, 2008 10:31 PM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 18, 2008 04:41 PM
The American Conservative's Dan McCarthy reports on Ron Paul's Minneapolis events. It's not just a report, though: it ends with a specific suggestion for where -- politically at least -- the movement might go in the future....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 18, 2008 03:00 PM
Writes Jenny Barwick: "I guess I am scared -- but I've lived the last two years or so with a feeling of impending catastrophe, even before I found LRC and Ron Paul and became able to put my nebulous unease...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 18, 2008 01:47 PM
(Thanks to Mike Conaghan)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 18, 2008 10:32 AM
Brian Farmer, writing in the New American, reports on Ron's counterconvention. Here's what he had to say about two speakers: Thomas Woods: Dr. Woods is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of the bestselling book...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 18, 2008 09:36 AM
Rachel Maddow's new show on MSNBC is getting more viewers than Keith Olbermann's, according to Drudge. That's due to her own abilities, and to Keith fatigue. How often can one watch a loud, in-your-face host who never has a guest...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 18, 2008 09:14 AM
(Thanks Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 17, 2008 03:57 PM
John McCain often has admitted he knows nothing about economics, and for the first time in history, it seems that a presidential candidate (other than Ron Paul, of course) actually has told the truth. I waited to see if the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 17, 2008 06:02 AM
Here he is, five years ago, on where the GSEs Fannie and Freddie were headed. (Thanks to Yaz.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 16, 2008 09:47 PM
Amy Goodman did cover Ron Paul -- specifically, the convention in Minneapolis. I still say Democracy Now spends 99.3% of its time pretending we don't exist, but it's their network I guess....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 16, 2008 08:29 PM
Andrew Sirkis writes: "Your blog posting of Amy Goodman interviewing Bill Richardson about the 500,000 murdered children was very interesting.... Have you seen the rest of the interview? I am only asking because I was wondering if Amy Goodman asked...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 16, 2008 04:24 PM
Says Burt Blumert: "I heard Barack on TV making fun, rightly, of Bush's 'Ownership Society,' and he pretty much quoted what you had to say (without attribution, of course) in your speech at Ron Paul's counterconvention in Minneapolis: "'Bush was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 16, 2008 03:29 PM
Here's Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviewing New Mexico governor and former UN ambassador Bill Richardson. He's a-ok with 500,000 dead children, too. (The YouTube is about a minute and a half long.) I respect Amy Goodman to an extent, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 16, 2008 10:12 AM
I received this email as part of an email list I'm a member of: Says one volunteer - "I will work and vote for... any Ron Paul endorsed candidate. What I object to is being forced to deliver McCain/Palin material...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 14, 2008 12:25 AM
I don't know, but it would be interesting to hear a reporter ask her if she voted for McCain in the caucus. But let's say she voted for Ron Paul in the caucus. So what. As his VP, Palin is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 13, 2008 09:50 AM
David Franke, the editor of Third Party Watch and partner of TPW owner Richard Viguerie, has launched an attack on Barr campaign manager Russ Verney. Russ Verney, Bob Barr’s campaign manager, just doesn’t get it. He persuaded his candidate to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 07:56 PM
Brian Doherty has an excellent and comprehensive interview on the Ron Paul/Bob Barr events of the last couple of days. The interview on the Pacifica Network's Morning Show starts about 74 minutes into the show and lasts for about 15...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 03:49 PM
Writes David Beito: "My respect for Mike Gravel has skyrocketed. Whatever you think of Palin, this interview is absolutely priceless. The smug pro-Obama Pacifica hosts are simply left speechless. Gravel gets in a few good licks at the end attacking...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 03:24 PM
The Republicans tried to force the cancellation of Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic (and the Rage Against the Machine concert). (Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 01:53 PM
From Ballot Access News: The Montana Secretary of State is not inclined to remove Ron Paul’s name from the ballot as the Constitution Party nominee, since all but five counties have finalized their ballots and sent the information to the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 11:43 AM
(Thanks to Minnesota Chris)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 10:06 AM
Writes Steve Berger:The idea of a foreclosure freeze is gaining lots of momentum in the senate. Nice magic bullet. Marginal borrowers will now have an incentive to default earlier than otherwise, mortgage lenders will see their cash flow reduced and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 12, 2008 09:23 AM
But it may not be too late. (Thanks to Adam)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 08:52 PM
Libertarian Party Founder David Nolan writes, "Barr. . . tooted his own horn and 'invited' Ron Paul to be his running mate. This was insanely stupid, for several reasons. First, because Barr has no authority to unilaterally change running-mates. Second,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 04:47 PM
Writes a Libertarian friend:Here is a letter from Barr asking Paul to be his VP today. If you read between the lines, it is clear that 1. Barr hates Ron Paul; 2. Barr expects Paul to say no to him;...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 01:24 PM
Bob Barr's campaign manager, Russ Verney, sure is funny: "Today our campaign is being criticized by a few people [my emphasis] for my decision to not attend a press conference sponsored by Ron Paul's political action committee...." A few people,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 01:08 PM
In a statement today, the Barr campaign manages to attack Ron Paul yet again (while somehow finding an excuse to praise President Bush for his "leadership" on 9/11). They say that Ron Paul's meeting yesterday was all about promoting himself,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 12:43 PM
The response of certain Libertarian Party people to Ron Paul's proposal reflects the influence of what I call "make-believe libertarians" within the LP. For every philosophically-centered and insightful Harry Browne, there have been far too many semi-reformed conservatives who have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 12:42 PM
No way, no how, no McCain. And isn't it funny that Gramm, who is an economist for all his other problems, had just one argument for Ron, that McCain would be slightly less bad than Obama?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 12:19 PM
Writes Nat Palmer: "The awesome thing about those who love and understand liberty is that if Ron Paul endorsed McCain, they would reject Paul. Not his ideas of liberty, but Ron Paul the man. There is no cult of personality,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 11:55 AM
Let's not forget that Nader and McKinney are right on far more issues than McCain and Obama, even if all four are very wrong on economics. Ron Paul knows what he is doing. Attacking the Republicrats is vitally important. But...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 11:05 AM
Good tv story: "Ron Paul urges Americans to vote for third-party candidate." (Thanks to Daniel) Update thanks to Travis....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 09:03 AM
Over the last fifteen minutes, I've had difficulty containing my laughter. "We can endorse these principles, but we also think it is important not to dilute our message." This has got to be the single most ironic statement of the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 11, 2008 07:32 AM
Barr's Field Director, Mike Ferguson, is living proof that one need not have an IQ above 50 to get high-ranking work on a major Libertarian Party campaign. The full text of his letter is below in case anyone needs it....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 10:41 PM
Murray N. Rothbard in 1956: "I am getting more and more convinced that the war-peace question is the key to the whole libertarian business." It's also one of the keys to the Ron Paul press conference....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 06:59 PM
My friend Bill Anderson is confused about the Ron Paul press conference today. I don't agree that "Ron Paul has no more in common with McKinney and Nader than he has with John McCain." Like McKinney and Nader, McCain (and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 05:32 PM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 04:43 PM
I've dreamed of this: The good leftists and good rightists all agreeing on gutting the empire, dismantling the national security state and ratcheting back the profligate corporatism. Anti-Fed and anti-war, a wonderful, cross-spectrum, short-term American populist program that would do...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 02:25 PM
Here's the Barr campaign's national field director, determined to take a disastrously stupid political move and make its impact ten times worse. Whose votes are they winning by doing this? What could possibly be going through their minds, other than...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 01:47 PM
(Thanks to Anthony Ajamian)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 01:42 PM
Dear LP, Mr. Barr's refusal to join Rep. Ron Paul and other Third Party presidential candidates at the Campaign for Liberty press conference today is most unfortunate and, frankly, a deal-breaker for me. I was prepared to hold my nose...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 01:20 PM
The Republican/Democrat duopoly has, for far too long, ignored the most important issues facing our nation. However, alternate candidates Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader agree with Ron Paul on four key principles central to the health of our...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 01:15 PM
By committing to attend Congressman Paul's press conference only to declare minutes before hand that "it just isn't worth it." This is according to Don Rasmussen, Events Coordinator of the Campaign for Liberty. Bob Barr has been slamming Dr. Paul...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 12:34 PM
So, Ron Paul has refused to endorse McCain. Libertarians would label him a sellout (and worse) if he had done so. Why then does Sarah Palin get a free pass? She has done far worse than endorse McCain--she has joined...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 11:23 AM
The BBC covers the arrows Ron Paul has loosed straight at the dark hearts of the Republican and Democratic parties....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 10:44 AM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 10:39 AM
CNN is streaming his press conference here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 09:38 AM
The American Majority Ron Paul The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 08:55 AM
During the latter stages of Ron Paul's presidential campaign, we kept hearing from one of Ron's officials - now on the McCain payroll - that John was spitting mad over Ron's fight through all the primaries. Poor baby. Word now...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 10, 2008 08:14 AM
Reports the Houston Chronicle: Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning, Houston-area congressman who waged a feisty Republican primary campaign for president, is expected on Wednesday to urge supporters to reject the two major-party candidates and vote for any of the four minor-party...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 05:59 PM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 05:58 PM
Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr has been kicked off the ballot in Louisiana. Meanwhile, Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root says Obama represents the "audacity of affirmative action." And in the best thing to happen to third...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 04:33 PM
Here's footage of Aimee Allen's rendition of this great song. Ron Paul discussed the concept of the universal soldier in one of the most powerful parts of his speech (my favorite part). I discuss the song in this LRC article,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 04:26 PM
Reports the Seattle Post-intelligencer: Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House bid earlier this year, is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 04:22 PM
And so they should be, about Ron Paul's historic "special announcement" tomorrow....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 02:41 PM
I'll be interviewing Anthony Gregory today here from 2pm-3pm ET. We'll share thoughts on Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic, the 2008 election, the prospects for liberty on the left and the right, and more. Email us questions here; archive...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 11:58 AM
Writes "rhino" on the Daily Paul: Ralph Nader "was here in Cincinnati and I went down to see him speak hoping that he would take questions afterwards and he did. I asked him if he was aware of a third-party...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 10:56 AM
The Economist magazine, actually The Keynesian Economist, doesn't have the worst article in the world on Ron Paul and his Minneapolis convention. Perhaps the Brits have a US office on Capitol Hill, hence the snotty faux-freedom tone. (Thanks to Bill...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 10:10 AM
Writes a soldier: "Some time ago Ron Paul asked GEN Petraeus about any US attack on Iran needing a congressional declaration of war. Well, come Sep 16th, he takes over CENTCOM. Come Sep 16th, it will be in his purview."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 09:02 AM
He was the only member of Congress to vote against naming a post office for the Republican Roosevelt - the evil, crazed, and bloodthirsty McCain hero Teddy. (Thanks, Norm.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 08:52 AM
Since you're making personnel changes, how about turning the Rachel Maddow Show into the Rachel and Pat Show? When Buchanan was on the initial episode last night, it was electric. I am a fan of Rachel's, and maybe she will...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 08:09 AM
There's a lot of noise being made by the left- and mutualist-libertarian crowd about the arrest of some so-called "anarchists" (scare quotes because anti-market "anarchists" are not real anarchists, i.e. anarcho-libertarians) and seizure by the police of "anarchist" and anarchist...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 9, 2008 01:46 AM
Michael Nystrom, founder and editor of The Daily Paul, has had it with the fascist GOP. That's pronounced "gopp," btw. (Thanks to Travis.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 8, 2008 02:29 PM
Wayne Allyn Root, the Libertarian party vice presidential candidate, says that the Sarah Palin nomination is the end for Obama. Libertarian party founder David Nolan, on the other hand, thinks McCain made a huge error with Palin. Besides, says Nolan,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 8, 2008 01:56 PM
The Fannie-Freddie bailout is "socialism for the rich," says Jim Rogers. Not for "homeowners in trouble" - not that that's a good idea - but for "Wall Street and the big banks." Actually, Jim, this is just more fascist corporatism:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 8, 2008 08:36 AM
Murray Rothbard used to tell the story of the trouble even the Communist Party had in sending its agents into, say, the plumbers union. They almost invariably became plumbers rather than Communists. And these were secret agents in a left-wing...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 7, 2008 03:13 PM
Writes Ken Harwood: "As you know:"About a dozen Massachusetts supporters of the Texas Congressman and GOP upstart decided to back McCain only an hour before the delegates began to cast votes for the presidential pick. “We decided the best course...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 7, 2008 07:00 AM
Bob Barr walked the GOP convention and the Ron Paul countervention. Some great photos from the Ron Paul event, including supporters of Barr and Chuck Baldwin. The NH ballot will have two LP presidential candidates, Barr and George Phillies. Barr...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 6, 2008 03:29 PM
The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash was sent by neocon Bill Kristol to make fun of the Ron Paul extravaganza in Minneapolis. It could be worse. Labash is smart and funny, and only laughs at a middle and working-class revolution. Commissar...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 6, 2008 12:53 PM
Here's a good-quality YouTube version of my speech at Ron Paul's rally: Part I Part II...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 6, 2008 08:40 AM
The Montana Constitution Party has removed Chuck Baldwin from the ballot and is putting the ticket of Ron Paul for President and Michael Peroutka on the ballot for Vice-President. Ron Paul was aware that the party planned to do this,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 06:58 PM
In reply to some comments I received regarding my "Ichabod!" article today on LRC I should say that I have never had any hope in the Republican Party. Years ago, when I was a registered Republican, and when I thought...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 06:31 PM
Thanks to Steve Vance for this report on the almost invariable result of Republican politics:In a last-minute show of unity, Bay State Ron Paul supporters decided to throw their votes behind Sen. John McCain last night. About a dozen Massachusetts...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 05:21 PM
would occur if the Ron Paul major announcement was that Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr were stepping aside for him to be the nominee of the Constitution and Libertarian Parties. I would even vote if that happened....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 12:12 PM
We can't know for sure what it's about, but Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin both say they'll be at the important Ron Paul press conference at the National Press Club in DC on September 10th at 10:30am, to discuss the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 11:31 AM
Writes Peter Gay: "I have just completed my voter registration form, and am out of the Nazi, I mean, Republican Party. The links you posted today about the Convention were well beyond the last straw - in my mind I...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 10:55 AM
Writes Cisse Spragins: "You got that right. I was a Ron Paul delegate to the MO State GOP Convention and the treatment there (and at the lower levels caucuses) was quite similar. The contrast between the MO GOP convention and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 10:50 AM
Writes a person from Texas: "I was a delegate to the Texas Republican Convention this year. If any delegate was known to be sympathetic to Dr. Paul, they were not allowed to speak to the convention. If they approached a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 08:25 AM
(Thanks to Kalim Kassam)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 5, 2008 08:20 AM
The St. Paul police state was centered in the convention, of course, where the Secret Service and black shirts (oh, sorry, black hats) spied on Ron Paul delegates, harrassed them, stole their property, and demeaned them, with the threat of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 10:14 PM
Lew, at least Senator Inhofe tried to correct the record when his delegation's votes for Ron Paul were ignored. As far back as 1976, in that famous convention where Jerry Ford "defeated" Ronald Reagan, the Indiana delegation head studiously ignored...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 02:38 PM
From the Boston Globe: In 1976 outsiders started a Revolution that took over the Republican Party. It was called the Reagan Revolution. In 2008, Ron Paul supporters see themselves in a similar position. Instead of fighting the machine, supporters of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 01:56 PM
Writes George Mora: "I also was very happy to see al-Jazeera's coverage of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty Convention. I think it shows the growing interest in the global Arab and Muslim community for Dr. Paul's philosophy of free markets...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 01:54 PM
The Republican party betrays and marginalizes Ron Paul supporters. (Thanks to WRH.) UPDATE Thanks to Mark Silva of the Swamp for reporting on the rollcall betrayal. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.) Really, the Republicans are a despicable bunch....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 01:40 PM
(Thanks to Anthony Ajamian)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 01:32 PM
There is a very interesting interview with Tucker Carlson while at the Ron Paul rally. He has some good insights about Ron and the movement, and I think he really understands why we like Ron Paul, and why he does...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 12:16 PM
In light of all the good coverage of what went on at Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty Convention, even by al-Jazeera, isn't it pathetic that all that [T]Reason magazine could muster was a snarky comment about how some guy from...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 10:47 AM
What can I say about a young and old crowd of 11,000 Paulians that cheered the names of Murray Rothbard and Frank Chodorov, except that they are also LRC and Mises.org readers? Murray always held that it is not enough...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 09:52 AM
The Democrats are close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It's amazing. First, they chose the far weaker of two candidates for the nomination. Actually, the voters probably chose Hillary but the crazy rules chose Obama. One of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 09:00 AM
Writes Steve Reed: "I wasted my time on the roll call, which just ended, so you wouldn't have to. Write an essay dissecting, say, - Das Gemeintum vor den Eigentum - ... oh, sorry, channeling my Middle European history there...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 07:24 AM
Writes Stephen: "It's a sad statement that Ron Paul's rally got a fairer shake in al-Jazeera than it did in Reason." Actually, that's true on almost every topic you can imagine. UPDATE Here are some great photos of the rally....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 4, 2008 07:11 AM
From MSNBC's initial report on Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic: "The most passionate of applause lines so far? Upon one speaker's single pronunciation of 'the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle,' members of the audience leapt to their feet...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 10:04 PM
(Thanks to Dustin Anderson)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 10:01 PM
Conservative, from Jim Antle of the American Spectator, liberal, from Chris Hayes of the Nation, and independent, from Christian Porth of al-Jazeera. UPDATE from Mike Nelson: a libertarian view....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 08:26 PM
Because NeoCons on both the Left and Right despise her; on the Left for her past support for Pat Buchanan and (supposedly) Ron Paul, and on the Right for the frightening realization (for them) that she will be the 2012...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 06:12 PM
Thanks to Dave Weigel, CPA, for this YouTube of Aimee Allen singing Universal Soldier at the Ron Paul convention, at Ron's request....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 12:26 PM
It was great to hear the Ron Paul convention crowd spontaneously chanting against the central bank. Here is the best video introduction to the case against the criminal gang who gives us artificial booms and busts, redistribution of wealth, world...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 11:51 AM
Here is the convention, including Tom Woods and me, and here is Ron Paul's amazing speech. (Thanks to Michael Nelson.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 01:07 AM
Besides Lew Rockwell's great speech, I was only able to catch a few minutes of Ron Paul's speech and other events at the Rally for the Republic. But what an inspiring sight that full arena was -- and what a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 12:22 AM
At the Ron Paul Convention in Minneapolis....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 3, 2008 12:21 AM
One musical star of Ron Paul's convention in Minneapolis was, of course, Aimee Allen, who rocked the house at the Ron Paul Nation celebration and the Rally for the Republic. Most moving was her singing of the heroic Universal Soldier,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 2, 2008 08:30 PM
The fascisticons refuse even to discuss the key issues facing our country....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 2, 2008 05:17 PM
One wonderful thing about the Ron Paul movement is how it has brought together such a diverse group of individuals in support of liberty. This convention has been a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. Last night...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 2, 2008 10:07 AM
First they deny Ron a chance to speak in St. Paul; then they deny him a chance to testify to the platform committee; now they deny him the normal access to the convention floor for a Republican congressmen. Here is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 2, 2008 09:11 AM
The Washington Times headline writer gets it wrong, of course, in this story. On the other hand, the McCainites did hire former RP campaign manager, Lew Moore, to try to persuade the RP delegates not to boo the Killer, etc....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 2, 2008 06:49 AM
Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic will be broadcast on CSPAN-2 from start to finish tomorrow....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 1, 2008 04:44 PM
Guess what? Obama is for spending a lot of money on science and technology in the US. Science Debate 2008 - the group of people who failed to get the Presidential Candidates to debate issues surrounding science this spring -...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 1, 2008 04:11 PM
A fantastic article from the Minneapolis Post. This is clearly the place to be this week in the Twin Cities....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on September 1, 2008 11:31 AM
What a time! Thousands of us filling up the streets here. I met some top Republicans from the city party, which was largely taken over by Paulians, I hear. But that's as Republican as it gets – the Big Government...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 31, 2008 11:33 PM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 31, 2008 05:34 PM
I was shocked to hear that McCain picked Palin, who is closer to Ron Paul on policy issues than to John McCain; I tend to believe the Bob Novak column that said McCain would have picked Joe Lieberman if he...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 30, 2008 02:04 PM
In Denver, we're so afraid of unarmed civilians, we send 2 cops for each protestor. This is undoubtedly what St Paul will look like next week also. Just imagine the Ron Paul supporters in that little group in the middle:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 30, 2008 08:21 AM
The police of St. Paul already are engaging in the smashmouth tactics against protesters, raiding the headquarters of the protesters with the usual goon-squad tactics of brandishing firearms and intimidating people with death if they resist. I cannot help but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 30, 2008 07:34 AM
Ron Paul supporters advocated that Ron pick her as his vice presidential running mate eleven months ago, stressing her libertarian policy stances and her family values....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 29, 2008 04:48 PM
From a February MTV interview: "He's a good guy," she added. "He's so independent. He's independent of the party machine. I'm like, 'Right on, so am I.'" (Thanks to David Muir)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 29, 2008 03:13 PM
I'll be speaking at Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic at 2:10pm on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, and now free tickets are available. Other speakers include Tom Woods, Bruce Fein, Bill Kauffman, Jesse Ventura, Tucker Carlson, and, of course, Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 29, 2008 08:32 AM
Writes Adam Bremer: "As a conservative who kind of 'woke up' when I heard Ron in the early debates (and then I gave money and went to his rally in Nashville) I appreciate your site, and check it on a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 28, 2008 04:12 PM
That seems to be the CV. I guess the network deserves to go down for what it did to Don Imus over an ugly joke, though now, as a political junkie, I watch Morning Joe instead. I also tend to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 28, 2008 12:18 PM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 28, 2008 08:57 AM
Writes Dustin Anderson: "In response to this post on LRC, here's Pat Buchanan on Russian TV talking about the Russo-Georgia conflict. And here he is on the McLaughlin Group talking about the same thing. Best of all, here is him...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 28, 2008 08:23 AM
All the usual suspects are criticizing earmarks again. Being anti-earmark, like McCain and the Beltway types, is a way to seem anti-spending while actually strengthening executive power. Earmarks do not increase spending; they are congressional allotments of proposed spending. If...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 27, 2008 01:35 PM
The folks at Operation St. Paul not only have giant billboards either up or going up, but they've also got the High Tide Ron Paul ad, with a new CFL ending, running on all the big screens around the Mall...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 27, 2008 10:22 AM
The boring Obama camp should have grabbed the electrifying, interesting, appealing Dennis Kucinich for VP. This is a guy who, in spite of his leftist, New Dealer bent, and his horrifying plans for the economy (I write about that here),...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 26, 2008 09:30 PM
But his opposition to making English the official language is not, in any event, at the top of the list. I oppose official languages and support full separation of language and state. I can see why some might disagree, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 25, 2008 04:24 PM
From the Brazosport Facts (Ron's hometown newspaper) story on the Minneapolis rally: "Carol Paul now is walking, talking and eating, Ron Paul said."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 25, 2008 08:58 AM
Writes Jeff Cloyd: "I have enjoyed your website for quite some time, and have been very enlightened by articles I read there. In fact, the decision my wife and I made to homeschool our two daughters was reinforced by articles...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 24, 2008 02:50 PM
Writes Trent Hill: "Last week, there was much excitement over the news that an independent ticket featuring Michael Bloomberg and Ron Paul would be placed on the ballot in Virginia. This was eventually shot down because the ticket was to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 24, 2008 11:33 AM
According to Rupert Murdoch's War Street Journal: "Two Nevada delegations are packing their bags "for the Republican National Convention Sept. 1, and if the latest party ruling stands, neither of them will be seated. "A fiasco at the state convention...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 23, 2008 03:36 PM
Hardcore RP delegates to the Republican national convention hope to convince enough McCain delegates to abstain on the first ballot to deny the fascist neocon the nomination, with the hope of eventually nominating Ron. They rightly point out that, as...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 23, 2008 12:18 PM
Valori Pyeatt, the granddaughter of Ron and Carol Paul, was married last night at the First Baptist Church in Lake Jackson, Texas, to Jesse Benton. No wedding stories yet, but here is one on their engagement....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 23, 2008 11:47 AM
Ron Paul delegates and alternates to the Republican convention - of whom there are many - do not plan to go with the flow on the glorification of war, the Fed, and the police state during the annointing of McCain....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 22, 2008 05:10 PM
[T]Reason magazine reported last April that longtime Cato donor John Stagliani was being prosecuted for the victimless crime of pornography. Now we learn over the Web today that another longtime Cato donor and sponsor of Cato University, Ross Levatter, was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 22, 2008 04:54 PM
Writes Charles Burris: "I.O.U.S.A., the highly touted fright documentary on America's skyrocketing national debt sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, premiered in 400 theaters across the nation Thursday night. This banal film was actually painful to watch, much worse...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 22, 2008 01:16 PM
Mrs. Ron Paul is no longer in the ICU, and is now in a regular hospital room....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 21, 2008 05:24 PM
After barring Ron Paul, the Republifascists will give the main convention speaking slots to the sanctimonious neocon monster Lieberman, the crooked neocon monster Giuliani, and the neocon war criminals Cheney and Bush. Also today, at a town meeting, when a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 20, 2008 07:21 PM
Says Ron Paul: "I am very happy to say she is doing much better and though I am still very concerned, I am cautiously optimistic of a full recovery.”...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 20, 2008 11:07 AM
One of Ron Paul's great gifts is his ability to make complicated issues understandable and indeed memorable to average people. For example, he notes that US meddling in the Caucasus is like the Russians arming and training the Mexican army...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 20, 2008 10:21 AM
Writes Andrew Malcolm for the LA Times: "Here's a good one: Just because former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia is the official candidate for president of the Libertarian Party, he thinks he should be included in this fall's televised...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 20, 2008 09:26 AM
Writes Lyndon Kroker: "I very much enjoy reading your web site. It has helped me learn a great deal. In fact, I have found out that ever since I was very young, I have been a libertarian - I just...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 20, 2008 08:30 AM
Writes Steven St. Jean: "Does this mean that Rockwell will be speaking at the Rally? "I wish I’d known that before I decided I couldn’t afford to go, and dropped my travel plans. "I’ve seen Ron Paul; I’ve seen Tom...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 19, 2008 05:28 PM
We'll be appearing at Ron Paul's big Rally for the Republic on September 2, 2008, in Minneapolis, just down the road from the "We Are All Georgians" meeting....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 19, 2008 03:54 PM
The Independent Party of Virginia has collected 70,000 signatures - seven times as many as necessary - to nominate Ron as vice president and Michael Bloomberg as president. The wrong order, of course, but still very neat. Could this ticket...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 19, 2008 03:45 PM
This is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages. This site shows you how to Use "Postage Paid" Envelopes to mail a brick to junk mailers!. You know those obnoxious "refinance your home" or credit card ... offers...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 18, 2008 12:56 AM
Writes Laurence Vance: "There is a Marine recruiter who has changed his mind about the military and is applying to be a conscientious objector. Just yesterday he sent me his application. He credits Ron Paul, me, and LRC with changing...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 17, 2008 08:00 PM
Bob Barr is trying to escape the shadow of Ron Paul, says McClatchy. Zogby says Barr is polling at 6%, and Ralph Nader at 2%. Also according to Zogby, the majority want Barr and Nader in the debates (duh!). Bestselling...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 17, 2008 10:09 AM
Writes Charles Burris: "On August 21 there will be a national premier of the film, I.O.U.S.A., in 400 theaters across the nation. The film purports to be an entertaining analysis of the serious financial situation facing America regarding its National...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 16, 2008 02:46 PM
Writes Gary North: John W. Robbins died on August 14, 2008. He was 59. He received his Ph.D. in political theory under Gottfried Dietze at Johns Hopkins University. He was awarded an M.A. from Johns Hopkins at age 21 and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 14, 2008 09:36 PM
Says the Houston Chronicle: Carol Paul, wife of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, remains in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital this morning after having her third surgery in a week. "Carol's surgery was successful. We are not out...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 13, 2008 08:35 AM
Here is the AP story. Carol and Ron, you are in our thoughts and prayers. (Thanks to Mark Fee.) UPDATE A better story in the Victoria Advocate....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 11, 2008 07:18 PM
So, the aggressor Georgia - which seceded from Russia - wants to resume its occupation of secessionist South Ossetia, and invades it. In other words, the MSM is a pack of lies. The neocons love Georgia, and denounce Ron Paul...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 11, 2008 08:59 AM
Says the review from the liberal Publisher's Weekly: "Congressman, Republican Presidential candidate and author Paul (A Foreign Policy of Freedom) says ;Let the revolution begin' with this libertarian plea for a return to 'the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 7, 2008 01:38 PM
There have been some excellent articles on LRC recently about China (Ron Paul on August 1 & Tim Swanson on July 22). Many conservatives, however, still have a China problem. Even real conservatives like Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 5, 2008 09:07 AM
Bravo to Ron Paul on his China comments! A nation that harasses people at every turn and which invades other countries without provocation is a country that does not need to lecture others about human rights. I truly am tired...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 3, 2008 09:48 PM
Ron Paul, of course. (Thanks to Eric Garris)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 3, 2008 09:09 PM
Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times political blog thought: hey, let's get some traffic for a change. So he covers the Ron Paul-Jesse Ventura counter-convention in St. Paul, which is tying the Ghastly Old Party in knots. As usual, the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 2, 2008 07:50 AM
Even before the indictment of US Senator Ted Stevens, the Alaska Independent Party's candidate Bob Bird was making a strong showing (see the poll on the lower right). Now The Wanderer has endorsed him as "pro-life, pro-Constitution, pro-peace, and pro-Alaska."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on August 1, 2008 07:24 PM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 31, 2008 06:24 PM
So protesters swarmed the Cato Institute today, protesting its support of NAFTA, and now, the I-69 highway being built that will connect Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. Recall that CNN dismissed Ron Paul as a crackpot for believing that any...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 31, 2008 12:02 PM
Writes David Kramer: "Ron Paul was on NPR today, on a very left wing show, BUT there was no anatagonism or condescension. The co-hosts seemed to like him and were very open to his views." And don't miss the Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 31, 2008 10:28 AM
Karen, thanks for the news on Steak and Ale going bankrupt. Some years ago, I held weekly meetings at the local S&A. Then the chain gave $5,000, the maximum donation, to Ron Paul's congressional opponent. I moved the meetings....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 29, 2008 08:27 PM
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...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 29, 2008 12:17 PM
To get out of the depression, make Ron Paul your vice president, says Mish. (Thanks to Winston Young.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 28, 2008 01:14 PM
Writes George Jones: "Thank you for that blog about Barack's brother. It is difficult enough being human in this world without the added pressure of having to explain the meaning of your 'racial identity.' As a black man I am...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 27, 2008 01:12 PM
First it was McCain's chief foreign policy adviser, former Chalabi flak Randy Scheunemann. McCain should have immediately called him on the carpet, Phil Gramm style -- maybe even fired him. Now McCain himself picks up the tarnished tactic and flails...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 25, 2008 07:02 AM
(Thanks to Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 24, 2008 03:27 PM
The progressive Democrats, like Dennis Kucinich, appear to have voted for more bankster-corporate-state welfare. The real defenders of the common man, like Ron Paul, oppose such fascism....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 24, 2008 12:49 PM
This time to reward the fascist Fannie and Freddie, other corrupt agencies, the banks, and politically connected borrowers. Oh, and this monstrous "law" includes further crackdowns on our privacy for the tax police. Just another day in the district of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 24, 2008 09:24 AM
A Continental jet flying from Houston to DC made an emergency landing in New Orleans Tuesday after losing cabin pressure. Ron Paul and 117 other passengers were safe. (Thanks to Jim Brownfield.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 22, 2008 07:00 PM
Now he will hold his libertarian counter-convention at the 18,000-seat Target Center. (Thanks to Ruby Justice.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 22, 2008 10:29 AM
After the huge success of Ron's The Revolution: A Manifesto, he's signed a contract to write his autobiography. The publisher is the same, Grand Central Books. According to the NY Observer, GCB paid a "major sum," and rightly so. But...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 22, 2008 08:33 AM
The new Harris poll shows Bob and Ralph getting 2% each. Bob was recently in Houston, but no, Ron's "technology team" did not raise money for him. It's like ascribing Ron's direct-mail fundraising success to the business-reply envelope. It was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 21, 2008 02:05 PM
'We know Ron Paul, and Bob Barr is no Ron Paul," writes Andrew Malcolm in the LA Times on their fundraising, spending, and debt. Andrew's conclusion: "Maybe Barr just needs his own campaign blimp."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 21, 2008 10:02 AM
"I think we are maybe 10 percent into this crisis. The economic distortions have been building for longer than we’ve seen in the history of the world. Never have we had such confidence falsely placed in a reserve currency." This...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 21, 2008 08:01 AM
Remember when police-statist Beck said that Ron Paul donors should be arrested by the army? On the same agitprop occasion, the since-disappeared neocon David Horowitz tried to smear LRC....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 20, 2008 08:46 PM
Thanks to Jeremy Glass, who drew the McCain-New Yorker cover, for this, which he created at the request of Mike Toles:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 19, 2008 04:42 PM
But how fun to see a Ron Paul presence on their site, trying to reform a pack of lies, and making trouble by telling the truth. (Thanks to Barbara Hoffman.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 18, 2008 04:18 PM
Antiwar Green party candidate Cynthia McKinney is interviewed in Newsweek. She goes over her top priorities and says the LP has reached out to her several times this year, and hints that there will be more 'mutual reaching." LP nominee...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 17, 2008 11:04 AM
(Thanks to Travis Holte)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 17, 2008 09:30 AM
Here is the Part 2 YouTube, and thanks to Travis Holte....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 16, 2008 08:54 PM
(Thanks to Travis Holte)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 16, 2008 12:25 PM
As a Dolphins fan (shhh, don't tell anyone) who loves the Steelers and their legacy, I've been following this topic with interest for some time, and here's an excellent, excellent (short) commentary in the Wall Street Journal. In the most...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 16, 2008 08:18 AM
(Thanks to Minnesota Chris.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 15, 2008 07:25 PM
Good for Roo Big and other Washingon (the good one) Paulian libertarians, for compiling this index for Ron Paul's important book, which unfortunately is missing one (shame on you, Grand Central Books). Whenever Roo & co. sell or loan a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 14, 2008 08:30 AM
Thanks to Minnesota Chris for that first segment; here is his playlist for the rest....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 13, 2008 03:40 PM
Libertarian nominee Bob Barr holds a small fundraiser at his running mate's "ostentatious mansion" near Las Vegas. GOP promises, cross its heart and hope to die, it will not try to knock Barr off the ballot in states where he...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 13, 2008 11:43 AM
Writes Marlow: "Your post referred to a Facebook page for Jesse Ventura. That Facebook page cites an appearance by Jesse on Al Jazeera Show. 4/09/2008 captured on Youtube. In that Youtube, starting at 6:05 and ending at 7:40, Jesse Ventura...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 13, 2008 08:19 AM
(Thanks to TW)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 12, 2008 06:47 PM
As this blog pointed out five months ago, McCain is constitutionally ineligible to be president because of his foreign birth. Now the NY Times is hopping on board. That was a political rally in DC today, wasn't it?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 12, 2008 05:45 PM
Ron Paul vs. Paulson and Bernanke. (Thanks to Minnesota Chris for all his work on these.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 12, 2008 04:21 PM
The LA Times political blog breaks into its fascinating back-and-forth of Obama-McCain, McCain-Obama, to report on Ron's march tomorrow in DC, WaPo's obit of Kent Snyder, the coming counter-convention at the University of Minnesota, and continued RP victories in various...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 05:34 PM
Running under David Gregory's show on MSNBC is the banner "Economic Meltdown." Gregory is clearly nervous. After all he has inside info: his wife is a high official of Fannie Mae. The Fed & co. have put us into a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 05:08 PM
(Thanks to Minnesota Chris.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 03:41 PM
Time magazine writes up political libertarianism, and why it's so big this year (the facts on the ground and Ron Paul). It's a decent article, though full--in the best MSM tradition--of howlers....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 09:03 AM
When Ron Paul warned years ago against central banking, the Fed bubble, the Fed bust, the bankruptcy of too-big-to-fail Fannie, and Freddie, and their bailout at the expense of you and me--not to mention a panic and crash, he was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 07:45 AM
...in opposing agression against Iran, notes Phil Weiss. "Paul has an intellectual manner and a gracious way of speaking." Read the whole blog post....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 07:39 AM
Ron Paul condemns the proposed blockade of Iran on the House floor. Here is Ron's opening statement in yesterday's hearing on Iran Policy. And here is Ron's Q&A on Iran in the hearings. (Thanks to Minnesota Chris for all three...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 11, 2008 06:48 AM
In the latest Zogby Poll: Obama - 40% McCain - 37% Barr - 10% Nader - 2% Someone else - 7% Undecided - 4% McCain, Obama nearly even with Independents. In a tight race, 9% stay with Barr and help...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 10, 2008 09:48 AM
Ron reports on his fight against the warmongers in Congress and elsewhere who threaten Iran and world peace. (Thanks to Minnesota Chris.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 9, 2008 11:20 PM
Over the three-day weekend the New York Times unveiled its list of "Poli-Book Best Sellers" for July. There at number four is Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto, one spot above Pat Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. Two...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 9, 2008 09:55 PM
Another great video from SlateTV, this one on Hollywood-spawned politicians, especially from the movie Predator (including a Libertarian). But aren't all successful pols predators by definition? No, there is Ron Paul. But the State is the greatest predator of them...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 9, 2008 03:44 PM
Progressive bloggers Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher have hired Ron Paul moneybombers to raise funds for a new anti-police state political movement....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 8, 2008 03:18 PM
About possible neocon aggression against Iran, and the results of such a horror, writes the aristocratic foreign correspondent Arnaud de Borchgrave. And don't miss the first comment at the bottom....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 8, 2008 12:52 PM
According to the generally untrustworthy Washington Post: "Over four decades, Russell Means has led an insurrection, posed for Andy Warhol, aspired to be an assassin and been arguably the most influential public figure in fighting racism against the American Indian....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 6, 2008 12:59 PM
See the results that really count. The boring homicide bomber McCain barely registers (of course)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 6, 2008 12:51 PM
Ron Paul Revolution Cola, and it's Jones, the real stuff. (Thanks to Johnny Kramer.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 6, 2008 10:12 AM
Congressmen are lusting for the blood of Iranians, says Ron Paul. They want to nuke that poor third-world country for refusing to bow the knee to the neocons. And we are supposed to look down on the Crips and the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 5, 2008 12:20 PM
Lew, thanks for that Post piece. But of course it'll be two days of fun -- the first day of the GOP convention, Ron Paul is having a book signing for The Revolution: A Manifesto at 1:00pm at a Borders...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 5, 2008 12:15 PM
According to the generally untrustworthy Washington Post: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) may have ended his presidential campaign, but the libertarian gadfly isn't exactly going quietly into the good night. Just because the national best-selling author has decided he won't be...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 5, 2008 11:15 AM
I had a cryptic call from Joe Becker in early September 2001. "Are you by chance looking for work?" I had met Becker a couple of months earlier, when I stopped in to Dr. Paul's office just to convey to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 3, 2008 09:07 PM
With the passing of Kent Snyder the freedom movement has lost a true champion. Most of you know Kent as the Chairman of the Ron Paul 2008 campaign, some of you may also remember him as the executive director of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 3, 2008 08:54 PM
Getting to know Kent Snyder was one of the greatest pleasures of working for the Ron Paul campaign. His character matched his philosophy: he wanted peace in the world and showed the way with his inner peace. (Kent had a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 3, 2008 01:16 PM
(Thanks to Travis Holte.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 2, 2008 09:30 PM
Writes Kevin Southwick: "I'm unable to attend Kent's service. He'd probably want me to simply support liberty with the resources I'd otherwise spend going to the service. So, I'll go to the Mises page and make a contribution. "I had...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 2, 2008 07:22 AM
That's the new personal site for Dr. Paul with links to his Campaign for Liberty, Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE) and National Endowment for Liberty (NEFL), Liberty Political Action Committee (PAC), Congressional House.gov site, and the Committee To...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 1, 2008 01:50 PM
Coming up at 2pm ET I'm interviewing Pace University's Joseph Salerno about the Fed. The program today is for the intimidated novice, a kind of "Fed for Dummies." Joe, by the way, is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 1, 2008 12:16 PM
Writes Joseph Becker, acting chairman of the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee: "I met my best friend of nearly a quarter century exactly as I should have – he was expounding the virtues of gold, silver, and platinum to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 1, 2008 11:47 AM
Writes Mark Grannis in the Washington Times: "Most presidential campaign books come at the beginning of the campaign season. This gives even a bad campaign book undeserved relevance. But the increased relevance is generally offset by discernable reductions in candor...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on July 1, 2008 09:41 AM
There is only one reason the Great Depression became a decade of high unemployment and low output and that is because of government intervention into the economy. I have no doubt that the credit-filled boom will continue to morph into...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 02:53 PM
Writes Spencer J. Hahn: "Let us not forget that it was that Democrat turncoat, Phil Gramm, who defeated Ron Paul in the 1984 Republican Senate primary. Had Ron Paul won the primary, he would have won the general election, and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 02:06 PM
I know that Bob Barr supporters consider some of my criticisms to be too philosophical and abstract, but here's a practical consideration: There are many voters out there who will write in Ron Paul. They will probably not be counted,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 01:36 PM
On Fox, he admirably makes the conservatives squirm at the idea that he'll hurt McCain, and he stands up to a lie about the new FISA bill only being for terror-related surveillance. He takes blame for voting for the Patriot...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 01:18 PM
Writes Tim Swanson: "The WSJ is making a big deal about Phil Gramm becoming the economic adviser to John McCain -- lauding him as a true Dr. No. Not that I'm a fan of trademarks, but Ron Paul has a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 11:10 AM
Writes Ron Paul: "The Freedom Movement has suffered a great loss. Kent Snyder, chairman of my presidential campaign, lost his tragic battle with pneumonia last week. Kent was a true lover of liberty. He was an American patriot. He was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 09:34 AM
It was fun to see Pat Buchanan trying to get a word in edgewise against the wealthy motormouth Katrina van den Heuvel (whatever happened to WASP manners?) on Morning Joe. Pat warned of a possible October Surprise against Iran to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 30, 2008 08:16 AM
From Arlington, Virginia, comes news of the death last Thursday of quiet libertarian giant Kent Snyder, after a long illness, at the age of 49. A sweet, smart guy with a 24/7 work ethic, Kent was a martial-arts champion, and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 29, 2008 02:55 PM
As a smart politician, Barr realizes that the ONLY interest the mainstream media has in him is as a "spoiler." That is, in the subversive and wonderful role he can play in hurting the evil John McCain. Indeed, the MSM...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 28, 2008 12:56 PM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 26, 2008 08:41 PM
Although it was sad to see Murray Sabrin fall short of the Republican Senate nomination in New Jersey earlier this month, in North Carolina victorious Ron Paul-endorsed Congressional nominee B.J. Lawson has been going from strength to strength. Lawson obliterated...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 26, 2008 03:40 PM
Neocon Glenn Beck, who once advocated martial law and the arrest of all Ron Paul donors, on what to do with Muslim prisoners....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 26, 2008 12:13 PM
One on the Fed, one on the "Revolution March." (Thanks to Minnesota Chris.) UPDATE A handsome YouTube of Ron on congressional regulation of moral and economic behavior (via Ron Paul News)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 26, 2008 08:30 AM
The school committee of Walpole, Massachusetts, has placed Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto on its summer reading list for middle-school students. (The article linked here incorrectly identifies the book as a biography.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 24, 2008 10:30 AM
McCain told Canadians that his campaign is about "reform, peace and prosperity," echoing Ron Paul's freedom, peace, and prosperity. In fact, of course, McCain is all about enshrining the power elite, mass murder of Muslims, and economic depression (though he...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 22, 2008 09:31 AM
Writes Michael Sinclair: "Thanks again for another good one by Gore Vidal. I'm also waiting for my copy of Pat Buchanan's new book to arrive. It will be good to get a fresh look at some of the 20th Century's...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 21, 2008 05:50 PM
Ron's presidential ccampaign may be "deceased," as Malcolm of the Times puts it in a financial roundup (with no debt and $4.5 million in the bank), but not in the hearts of the people....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 21, 2008 09:10 AM
In this clip from December, McCain claims he speaks for the troops -- not Ron, who dwarfed his competition in donations from American troops. McCain utters the typical early-2004 GOP propaganda, even though nowadays, even conservatives like Glenn Beck admit...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 20, 2008 10:59 PM
Obama, the only candidate this cycle -- besides Ron Paul, of course -- to get donations from actual Americans as versus the pressure groups, has decided not to take socialist funding, and instead depend on private gifts for his campaign....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 20, 2008 03:45 PM
The New York Times bestseller list for June 29 was released today. Pat Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and "the Unnecessary War" is up to #10, in its third week on the list. Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto is down to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 18, 2008 08:11 PM
Ron Paul dominates the Tim Russert Memorial Network. One of his great interviews. (Thanks to Kalim Kassam and Travis)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 18, 2008 09:59 AM
A video of one minute from Ron's great speech at FFF has gone viral on the web, when he indicts the Speaker of the House. Nancy, Ron explains, deleted from a bill in the dead of night a provision saying...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 18, 2008 08:48 AM
Or so says the RBS. Reports Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: "The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyses the major central banks."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 18, 2008 07:05 AM
Paul Mulshine on why the Republicans don't want Ron at their convention, and what it says about the Cainster...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 17, 2008 01:55 PM
Reports the Daily Telegraph from London: "Mr McCain will not even have it all his own way at the Republican convention in St Paul, Minnesota, in September. His onetime rival for the nomination, the libertarian Ron Paul, has revealed that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 17, 2008 12:48 PM
(Thanks to Bob Sample.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 17, 2008 09:25 AM
Mark Skousen joins the rest of the pack in lauding regime mouthpiece Tim Russert as a hero of tough and independent journalism. (I feel as if it's 1968, and the editor of Pravda has just died. All the expected encomiums...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 17, 2008 08:25 AM
A friend pointed out that one of the most important affects of the Ron Paul campaign is all the young people who, absent the Ron Paul campaign, would have associated free-markets with neoconservatism, and peace with socialism. Now, thanks...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 16, 2008 07:54 PM
Thursday I got a call from a friend disappointed over the end of Ron Paul's Presidential campaign. I told my friend that this is not an ending, but the beginning of the next chapter in an ongoing rEVOLUtion and, thanks...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 16, 2008 06:55 PM
The Tim Russert Channel (f.k.a. MSNBC) is scrolling across the bottom of the screen that Ron Paul may join Bob Barr on the Libertarian ticket. I don't know what basis they have for this. Probably it is an irresponsible exaggeration...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 16, 2008 06:43 PM
Here is what Ron says: "I don’t think that’s very productive. Supporters can do it, of course, but in most of the states it won’t count. And if they can change the rules in a primary and not count all...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 16, 2008 03:47 PM
May it come true! May Ron's supporters stay home this year and not vote....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 16, 2008 10:50 AM
As I recall, during his Meet the Press interview Russert tried to insinuate that Ron Paul was a hypocrite for advocating an amendment to the Constitution. His argument was: "How can you claim to be a champion of the Constitution...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 15, 2008 08:32 PM
Lew mentioned Russert's interview of Paul on Meet the Press. Here's the video....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 15, 2008 06:57 PM
I'm watching the semi-Russert CNN, to avoid the all-Russert MSNBC, and the less-Russert but more-fascist FOX. CNN just made fun -- haha -- of Ron's dropping out. First, it interviews a sweet guy who thinks Ron can still become president...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 15, 2008 01:57 PM
When I turned 16 in 1960, and got a car thanks to my sweet grandmother, the first thing I did was apply a "Goldwater for President" bumper sticker. It turned out that I needed a stack, because bad guys kept...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 15, 2008 01:42 PM
The real crime of Ron Paul, of course, is not that he is against the Iraq war, but rather that he is against government being at war with everyone at home. In its support of the IRS, the Puffington Host...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 15, 2008 12:17 PM
A major real-world rater of website traffic says these are the 100 best-read sites that cover politics: 1. The Huffington Post 2. Free Republic 3. Barack Obama 4. CNN Political Ticker 5. Daily Kos 6. The Politico 7. Real Clear...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 15, 2008 09:24 AM
The Huffington Post pretends to be antiwar while serving the prowar Hollywood and Democratic elite. HuffPo's unfunny attack on Ron Paul's leaving the presidential race naturally goes after his antiwar message. (Thanks to Keith Krider.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 14, 2008 08:35 PM
See Glenn Greenwald on the fascist leader-worship of the conservatives, and the power worship of the press. On the latter, it is instructive to remember the late Tim Russert. Indeed, how could we forget? Cable TV has been obsessed with...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 14, 2008 04:56 PM
Thanks to Minnesota Chris for this YouTube (and playlist of the other parts) of Ron's speech in Texas announcing his post-campaign campaign....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 14, 2008 12:00 PM
Ron's new campaign could be a real force in the fall, says the War Street Journal. As WarJo notes, the video of his "farewell address" has been viewed more than 600,000 times. Antiwar leftist Ralph Nader praises his friend Ron,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 14, 2008 10:49 AM
Antiwar conservative Democrat Bob Conley hopes to challenge bizarro Republican warmonger Lindsey Graham for US Senate in South Carolina. And one of Conley's boasts is that he voted for Ron in the SC Republican primary. Since the Republican party is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 14, 2008 10:15 AM
Gary congratulates Ron on his presidential campaign, on leaving it, and on his new organization....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 13, 2008 05:11 PM
Writes Steve Candidus: "I was at Ron Paul's rally indowntown Houston last night. "I had a grueling day at work and I knew that I had a very early morning today, but I simply could not let the opportunity go...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 13, 2008 02:51 PM
Another has only begun....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 13, 2008 10:01 AM
Writes the Boston Globe: "You can see the beginnings of a possible alliance this fall between Ron Paul, who formally ended his Republican presidential bid Thursday night, and Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party's nominee. "Paul was the Libertarian nominee in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 13, 2008 09:49 AM
Here is the official statement on the former RP2008 site, though even the LA Times's funny Andrew Malcolm is reluctant to believe it is all over (reluctant, that is, to believe that the days when large numbers of Paulians read...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 13, 2008 06:50 AM
But The Revolution Continues Tonight, at a rally adjacent to the Texas state Republican convention in Houston, Ron will thank all his donors and volunteers, and announce that he is closing down his presidential campaign, and is no longer a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 12, 2008 01:41 PM
See Justin Raimondo on populism vs. elitism....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 09:31 PM
Join Ron Paul and his other supporters for an ice-cream Freedom Rally of great importance, in the Hilton America's Grand Ballroom, 1600 Lamar, Houston, Texas 77010, adjacent to the Texas state GOP (pronounced gopp) convention, from 9:00 - 11:00 PM...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 06:22 PM
John Nichols, the progressive interested in libertarianism, writes: "The [Libertarian] party's embrace of Barr did not come easily. At the Libertarian convention in Denver, it took six ballots to settle the nomination. Even then, the convention choice did not settle...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 05:49 PM
One of Bob Barr's most heroic moments was when he, more than most in his party, stood up to the Clinton administration during the hearings on the 1993 Waco tragedy. It was one of those things that, despite an otherwise...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 05:15 PM
Now on YouTube, thanks to Minnesota Chris, and here's the playlist for all five parts....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 11:57 AM
Let's face it, folks. There is only one Ron Paul. Indeed, he is unique in the entire history of American politics. So I take with a grain of salt all the claims of various pols to be Ron Paulians. Oh,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 09:21 AM
Today on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the Republican host said the government should simply order, Mafia-style, car manufacturers to make only Prius-like vehicles, because of the alleged urgent need for "energy independence." Everyone in public life--ecept the heroic Ron Paul--seems to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 11, 2008 08:34 AM
Ron Paul tells a worried Neil Cavuto about his upcoming huge rally in Minneapolis against McCain and the other big-government advocates in the Republican party (that is, everyone but Ron!)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 10, 2008 05:29 PM
Writes Andrew M.: "I love the different perspectives of LewRockwell.com and while I am not Rothbardian (Paulian?), I would rather wave the black flag of freedom on the hill rather than wear the white badge of slavery for the good...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 10, 2008 05:17 PM
As the Republicans plot more evil at their tax-funded national convention in St. Paul, 11,000 Ron Paulians will have a privately funded celebration of freedom in the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2. Be there or...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 10, 2008 03:28 PM
Join Ron and his Texas supporters for ice cream and liberty on Thursday, June 12, 9-11 PM, in the Hilton Americas Grand Ballroom (4th floor), 1600 Lamar, Houston, Texas (adjoining the Convention Center where the Republican criminals meet to plot...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 10, 2008 02:51 PM
Allen Wastler of CNBC never thought he'd say it, but now that the race is "programatically" down to "two ponies" (make that two nags), he misses Ron for his serious economic ideas, and for his "serious internet troops."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 10, 2008 11:33 AM
What an amazing man is Ron Paul. He has always been a wonderful public speaker, but he just keeps getting better. What a talk he gave at the Future of Freedom Foundation conference on foreign policy and civil liberties. He...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 10, 2008 07:39 AM
Bush calls on world financial markets to value the falling fiat greenback more highly. George, if this were not your typical lying propaganda, I would tell you: Stop inflating! Establish a gold standard! Cut spending, taxes, and regulations, Future generations...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 9, 2008 03:54 PM
The various crooks and morons and powermad apparatchiks (not separate catetories) who run the Texas Republican party are worried that their disgruntled voters won't turn out, as they give the back of their hand to Ron Paul supporters at the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 9, 2008 02:12 PM
The disabled Iraqi war veteran - who had to be brought to the platform in a wheel-chair - and who was booed by the McCain "water-cooler- warriors" for announcing his support for Ron Paul, shows how sociopathic most Republicans have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 9, 2008 01:53 PM
Writes Michael Gaddy: "Have you heard about the young man who began his speech at the Colorado GOP convention with 'I am a disabled Iraq war veteran and a Ron Paul supporter' and was booed loudly by the McCain supporters...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 9, 2008 09:32 AM
In internet market share. McCain also trails Obama and Clinton, according to the Republican Leadership Trust. BTW, it strikes me that Ron's 20+% is probably also the rough number of libertarians and libertarian fellow travelers in America, thanks to him....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 8, 2008 02:37 PM
Re Steve's blog to the effect that both Hillary and Obama are unelectable, I have wondered, for some time now, whether the political establishment - via its dutiful MSM - is also aware of this and has promoted these two...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 8, 2008 02:10 PM
If I was in the MSM, the accuracy of my predictions would not matter. I could say what I wish, however wrong, and remain on the air, get promoted and get fat raises. However, since I'm not, I am, ironically,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 8, 2008 01:56 PM
UPDATE Thanks to Greg Richardson for Part Two of the Ron Paul video....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 8, 2008 07:58 AM
The tax-eating Texas Republican convention has long ignored the government law in order to prevent insurgencies. But the Ron Paulians have overturned at least one of their tricks....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 8, 2008 07:40 AM
That is what Repuglican elites fear will happen to their staged state convention in Houston next week, instead of the schemed glorification of McMurder....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 8, 2008 07:02 AM
Let's see, Lew . . . The D.C. think tank's "responsible, respectable, important work" has accomplished exactly . . . what? Leviathan has continued to grow apace, the GOP continues to bamboozle millions into believing that it's the party of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 7, 2008 07:53 PM
As Ron Paul pointed out last night at the wonderful FFF conference on foreign policy and civil liberties, it's because of the latest threat to attack Iran. There are always the Fed's monetary debasement, the gas-guzzling wars, and taxes and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 7, 2008 09:31 AM
Here's an interesting article written about Murray Sabrin's communications director (and LRC-contributer), George Ajjan. George is extremely capable in the realm of politics and has a keen understanding of the way elections work...but don't count this against him! He has...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 6, 2008 10:30 PM
So asks The Nation in a somewhat decent article. Good as The Nation can sometimes be, it generally has an inane remark quotient of about three per article. The winner in this one goes to, "Then there's their [Paul and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 4, 2008 09:03 PM
I'm not holding out hope that the GOP will admit its mistake and allow Ron Paul to be its standard bearer, but how can you not love a petition that declares this? We, the undersigned, pledge to NOT vote for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 4, 2008 05:15 PM
John McCain has proposed that he and Barack Obama start having their general election "debates" next week, long before the GOP and the Democrats hold their nominating conventions. This way, the conventions could be rendered safe for the political establishment....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 4, 2008 03:05 PM
I have just had the very sad news of the death of this wonderful Austrian economist. What a smart, learned, and delightful person she was, and what a great lady. She seemed to know everything about F.A. Hayek, the common...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 4, 2008 08:38 AM
New Mexico 14% South Dakota 17% Montana 22%...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 4, 2008 06:51 AM
I was interviewed by a reporter from Mexico City's major paper Excélsior for my thoughts on the Ron Paul Revolution. Here's the column, which explains the great cause Ron has led, one that transcends electoral politics, and touches on his...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 3, 2008 03:17 PM
The NY Times is shocked, shocked!, that political opponents are digitally removed from state-controlled Russian TV. Do I find the Kremlin's practice disgusting? Yes. But I also see the hyprocrisy of the whole story. First, we enlightened Americans also have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 3, 2008 01:04 PM
Ex-Nixon official Kevin Phillips may be awful on economics - like his old boss - but it's fun to see him going after Ben and the Fed, and recognizing Ron Paul as the key anti-Fed figure in America today. But...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 3, 2008 10:21 AM
Writes Dena Bunis of the Orange County Register: "There's been lots of talk this election season about change – most of it over the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. But there's another group of voters out there clamoring for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 3, 2008 09:07 AM
... says Stu Rothenberg. His cute (he thinks it's astute) bit of circular logic goes like this: Bob Barr and the Libertarians are just an asterisk. They are insignificant. They will draw no votes from either candidate. So, don't cover...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 3, 2008 07:30 AM
Alex McGrady writes to Mark Thornton and me: "I'm in Minnesota where we just held our GOP state convention. Dr. Paul came to speak to the convention. He was rather unceremoniously kicked out of the room reserved for his speech...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 2, 2008 02:03 PM
Ron Paul and his fervent antiwar supporters are "still pulling heavy support away from McCain," points out The Nation's John Nichols....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 2, 2008 10:16 AM
Mr. Barr was just on FOX, and as always, he is an impressive and well-spoken public figure. He condemned government spending, seemed to call himself a "true conservative," and said that he would not seek votes that would otherwise go...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 01:32 PM
Gary Halpin writes that there are two such book clubs in the Denver area. Of the newest one he says: We have had 3 meetings, and are currently discussing 'Economics for Real People' by Gene Callahan. Many of the people...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 01:18 PM
Joseph Salerno discusses the gold standard on C-Span. Scroll down. When Ron Paul formed a Shadow Open Market Committee to track the Fed's depredations, he asked Joe to be a member. Now you can see why....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 12:39 PM
Lew, in this interview, I see Root appeals to base conservatism by giving a caveat, while discussing energy policy, that he "usually hate[s] France." This reverberates with the Republican bias of 2003 against France. What is with the Francophobia, anyway?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 12:22 PM
"Ron Paul's fight for the Republican nomination is ending, but his followers are attempting to turn his failed candidacy into a lasting movement that would alter the landscape of American politics." All in all a surprisingly positive article in the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 12:20 PM
Indeed, the Ron Paul Store has had to shut down temporarily because of high demand. In the meantime, see the RP t-shirt (and other liberarian wearables) at the LRC Store. (Thanks to Kitty Carr.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 11:25 AM
Read Mr. Krblich's comments below, and you will see why Ron Paul and the Paulians have wrought a great victory this year. And they did it with real libertarian ideas, not by compromise and trimming. Though I am fascinated by...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 10:56 AM
Charles Krblich II writes regarding LP VP on RP: "I was a witness to the 'Debate' when Ron Paul spoke of Blowback and Rudy Guliani responded with his insane remark. My initial (emotional) reaction was to side with Rudy, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 10:27 AM
Ron Paul supporters promote his revolutionary manifesto in the public square. Have you read it? Given it to your children, your friends, your business associates? This is the book that could change America....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 10:06 AM
GOP conclaves normally have all the dissent found in a North Korean communist party meeting. It's 100% to zero for war, empire, the police state, corporatism, and other doctrines of red-state fascism. But this year, there is news at the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 08:39 AM
Tom Woods blogged about people starting book clubs, and yesterday Revolutionaries in Maryland had their first book club meeting. I was in attendance, and it was everything I hoped for and more. Ron Paul's message was discussed as an abstract...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on June 1, 2008 08:03 AM
Watch McCain, sitting next to Ron Paul. The truth sure burns....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 31, 2008 02:54 PM
Newsweek's Daniel Stone does a decent interview with Ron, though he refers to dedicated Paulians as "fanatical," something he would never say about the rabid warmongers and statists who populate Newsweek....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 31, 2008 12:33 PM
Kevin Tuma writes about comments he found on Libertarian VP nominee Wayne Allyn Root's website on Ron Paul's pro-peace foreign policy, and the neocons' "War on Terror." Writes Kevin: "Says Root: 'I love Ron Paul! Ron Paul is my hero'...and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 31, 2008 12:12 PM
1500 Paulians turn out in Branson, at a counter rally to the Missouri Republican gang, in cabal assembled, where they were shut out, to hear a great speech from Ron and get his new Manifesto. Like Ron himself, no Paulian,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 31, 2008 11:22 AM
The Minnesota Republican gang, in cabal assembled, cheated Ron Paul followers out of any delegates to the national cabal, also in Minnestota. I'm shocked, shocked. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 31, 2008 11:02 AM
Here is Ron Paul's wonderful, inspiring answer on the issue of medical marijuana. Notice how wonderfully he incorporates history, constitutional arguments and the basic moral issues involved in his response. Boy does he nail it. It is clear he cares...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 05:13 PM
In relation to the idea that "Barr May Take Republican Votes," one of the Onion's famous "man on the street" answers is: "So up until this nomination, our best choice to ensure public rights and personal freedoms was John McCain?"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 03:25 PM
Writes Roo Big: "Our sole delegate from our little county has been reporting back from Spokane. She says until you've been in a room with 1,000 other Ron Paul supporters, you haven't lived! All sorts of skull-duggery and rule bending...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 02:29 PM
Spreading the libertarian message is infinitely more important, Ron Paul tells supporters outside the Minnesota Republican cabal. (Thanks to Paul Likoudis.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 01:27 PM
Ron Paul has famously had thousands of wonderful YouTube videos made by supporters, spontaneously, without any central direction by his campaign. The musical ones have been especially impressive. This grassroots media have been one of the most inspiring aspects of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 01:26 PM
He has a #1 New York Times bestseller, published by the same publisher that released Colbert's own recent book. His supporters keep making waves around the country and are still newsworthy. So what's the deal, Colbert (and everyone else)? EDIT:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 11:52 AM
Writes Andrew Garber in the Seattle Times: "Give Ron Paul supporters credit for tenacity. "John McCain may have a lock on the national Republican presidential nomination, but that hasn't deterred Paul's followers in this state. "They're still turning out in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 11:05 AM
Young Ron Paul supporters seek to work within the GOP rules in Missouri, and are demonized. Are the Republicans particularly evil, or is this the universal character of all organizations that seek to rule others through force and fraud? Both...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 09:32 AM
"Stop talking about war and imperialism, about the Federal Reserve's dollar destruction and recession, about wild government spending and taxes and orders, about the growing dictatorship and police state. Support corruption. Support aggression. Support our nominee." That is the message...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 08:48 AM
In that video of Condoleezza Rice responding to Ron Paul, she sure says "um" a lot. Doesn't that seem odd for someone who's surely a polished public speaker and who's spoken extemporaneously on complicated matters countless times? Not really, when...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 30, 2008 01:28 AM
On war and empire, libertarian truth vs. neoconservative lies....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 08:39 PM
Thanks to Deb Wells for letting me know that there is a big Ron Paul Rally tomorrow in Branson, Missouri, outside the state Republican convention in support of embattled Paulin delegates. Paulians will meet at the Tri Lakes Center, 2527...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 08:21 PM
A month before the Libertarian party nominated him for vice president, Wayne Allyn Root appeared on the Bob Grant radio show in New York City. There, Mr. Root said that Ron Paul is not a good communicator(!), and that he's...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 07:33 PM
Here's Charles Goyette's interview. Paul says he has not endorsed an heir and does not know who he will vote for. He does not want to try and manage his supporters and thinks there are many options for people to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 03:58 PM
Harry Browne had a great plan for a Libertarian's first day as president. Libertarians everywhere should see this as a great standard, a model, a starting point. (Of course, Ron Paul would also have a great plan, I'm sure, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 01:47 PM
Writes Mark Carroll: "Unfortunately, my son served two tours in Iraq. Fortunately, he is now out of the Army, and he's a huge Ron Paul supporter. "A few weeks ago, a guy in his unit (still in the Army, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 11:56 AM
You can get a Ron Paul t-shirt and a collection of Ron Paul merchandise (such as buttons, stickers, mouse pads, key chains, magnets, hats, wristbands, etc.) for $25, including shipping. Go here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 09:47 AM
Writes Abu Hatem: "Never in the history of the United States has any candidate espoused Arab and Muslim American values like Ron Paul. A fervent follower of politics and international news for many years, I never believed I would actually...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 29, 2008 08:05 AM
Ron's The Revolution: A Manifesto will be #5 on the NY Times Bestseller List for June 8th. This is up from #7, but down from #1. The book took a drop because the publisher ran out of copies, and was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 28, 2008 04:29 PM
Lew, Mike Huckabee unwittingly (redundant?) reveals the recent shift that has occurred in the American political landscape. Whereas a few years ago, libertarians were merely thought of as Republicans who liked to smoke pot, people are now beginning to recognize...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 28, 2008 02:15 PM
Writes Rand Paul: "The Washington Post recently claimed that I was paid to be a surrogate speaker for my father, Ron Paul. This is an outright lie. "I was never paid to speak for my father. In fact, the vast...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 28, 2008 12:49 PM
Ron Paul's best primary state was yesterday's showing in Idaho, 24% of the GOP vote. According to "The Green Papers," the foremost authority on the primary process, Ron Paul won 6 national delegates from Idaho. This brings his current total...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 28, 2008 09:30 AM
The Nation's John Nichols, the progressive political blogger with an interest in libertarianism, gave us some of the smartest Ron Paul coverage. Now he turns to the Libertarian nominee....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 28, 2008 08:10 AM
Why the 24% in Idaho? Well, that state, like the rest of the American West, has always had a strong libertarian streak. Opposition to federal power is stoked by the vast amounts of land the feds continue to squat on,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 28, 2008 07:53 AM
With 24% in Idaho, I believe this is Ron Paul's best showing in a primary state. Idaho has a proportional delegate allocation, so, if this percentage holds, Ron Paul will win 4 or 5 national delegates from Idaho. UPDATE: Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 27, 2008 10:16 PM
Writes Russell Atkatsh: "We are gearing up for the convention! See this write-up from the Seattle Times": SPOKANE — Hundreds of Washington Republicans will arrive in Spokane this week with their party's presidential candidate all but chosen. Arizona Sen. John...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 27, 2008 07:24 PM
James Pethokoukis writes, "Now since the Barr-Root ticket has scant chance of winning—though it just might spoil John McCain's chances for victory—you would think its policy proposals would be bold ones with lots of details. Barr and Root are in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 27, 2008 03:58 PM
Ron Paul in the Clark County, Washington, Republican convention. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 27, 2008 10:23 AM
Thus the continued hit pieces, this time in the federal government's house organ. The charge: the frugal Ron employed some trusted family members in his campaign for very long hours at very small salaries. Oooh! (Thanks to Nick Badalamenti.) UPDATE...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 27, 2008 09:35 AM
Writes Lance Connelly: "Just another example of how Switzerland respects liberty much more than 'the land of the free.' I particularly like how not only did the government have to return the man's funds (they stole) because no crime was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 27, 2008 09:15 AM
Amidst all the nonsense about "The Iranians Are Coming, the Iranians Are Coming," Jimmy notes that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons. I remember when Ron Paul, during one of Republican debates, shut up all his pygmy opponents by mentioning that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 26, 2008 10:15 AM
Not some government-manufactured unit like the fiat dollar, but gold, for peace, trade, and prosperity. As the empire's currency collapses--as Hazlitt, Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe, Salerno, Hulsmann, and Ron Paul have predicted--even the Establishment is noting the evil of monetary nationalism...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 26, 2008 09:36 AM
The Washington State Republican convention, that is, where--says the Seattle Times--"Hundreds of Washington Republicans will arrive in Spokane this week with their party's presidential candidate all but chosen. Arizona Sen. John McCain has only to await the national convention in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 25, 2008 05:18 PM
With no candidate receiving over 25% on the first ballot, here are the results: Bob Barr: 153 Mary Ruwart: 152 Wayne Root: 123 Mike Gravel: 71 Geo. Phillies: 49 Steve Kubby: 41 Mike Jingozian: 23 Ron Paul (WI): 6 Christine...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 25, 2008 02:44 PM
Almost everyone seems middle-aged or older; it is entirely unlike a Ron Paul meeting, which is always predominantly young people....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 25, 2008 01:40 PM
Here are my impressions on the first 90 minutes of the LP presidential debate. Bob Barr--the candidate most likely to get more than the obligatory half of one percent. The question is, is he a conservative libertarian like Ron Paul...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 25, 2008 08:56 AM
I was there, and it was a surprise in some ways. Most candidates outperformed my expectations. They all seemed to give mostly good (or at least decent) answers. Some were great answers. There is still a lot of libertarianism in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 25, 2008 03:58 AM
Since the LP national convention is in Denver this year, I had the good fortune of being able to attend Anthony Gregory's funny and informative talk last night to a group of LP delegates and activists. Happily, I also spotted...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 24, 2008 02:52 PM
Not bad for the NY Times, but a few errors. For example, in discussing young people's response to Ron, the Times says: "Of course, Ron Paul is a lot closer to Barry Goldwater than to Eugene McCarthy." That is not...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 24, 2008 11:25 AM
I like the idea of Freedom Tour '08, which some folks are doing for free this summer on behalf of Ron Paul and his ideas. But they're in danger of having to cancel their stops in certain cities. Here's what...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 03:47 PM
Finally, someone (Collin Levy) points out the one and only reason that the Libertarian Party convention is such a big deal this year: Ron Paul....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 03:02 PM
Writes Paul Likoudis: "Concerning the possibility of Obama picking Hagel: Why is no one pushing Ron Paul as Obama's running mate? "Since Dick Cheney has turned the VP office into the Most Powerful Office in the Land, Ron Paul is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 01:54 PM
Writes Brian Engle: "As you said: 'So to McCain, Obama -- as a non-veteran -- cannot comment on veterans affairs.' "Does this work for any subject? Could we say that McCain, having never been a Muslim, cannot comment on Muslim...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 01:16 PM
Commies in Minnesota tell their pals in the FBI to spy on the Ron Paul movement because it is potentially violent! Ron Paul worships the Prince of Peace (a statement that got him booed at a Christian right rally), he...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 12:51 PM
Ron and his best-selling book will be featured in the NY Times's Style Section this Sunday. Not like the news section or the Week in Review, but hey, we'll take it....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 11:51 AM
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), whose chances of being Obama's VP pick increase every day (I put it at about 20 - 25% at this point), recently suggested that if Bush attacked Iran w/o Congressional approval he could/should be impeached. Speaking...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 09:05 AM
Obama calls Israel one of "our strongest allies." What does that mean exactly? We give them $3 billion a year. They can't supply any troops for the Iraq war we are fighting on their behalf (Bush said that, not me,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 23, 2008 08:30 AM
Ron Paul's bestselling book is finally back in stock at Amazon....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 22, 2008 09:21 PM
I'm having a very good time at the LP Convention in Denver, so far. Readers skeptical about the LP will be happy to hear that there are lots of LRC fans and Ron Paulians at the event. Indeed, a number...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 22, 2008 09:11 PM
I have had a long-running skepticism concerning both the propriety and effectiveness of electoral politics as a way of advancing the cause of liberty. Nonetheless, I see the educational value in the presidential campaign of Ron Paul, whose efforts will...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 22, 2008 10:05 AM
As Ron Paul points out, the useless Democrats agree with the Republicans, in an eery replay of their last aggression: the Dems will not "rule out the military option" against Iran for allegedly not obeying the global hegemon. Let's translate...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 09:11 PM
Some Ron Paul people, understandably upset by their treatment, plan to make trouble at that convocation of burglars and fences known as the Republican convention. I can't see the point myself, but I don't put much faith in standard politics....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 08:43 PM
Writes Joe: "I don't even know where to begin with the multiple levels of straight faced, unblinking absurdity and evil that Gate's congressional testimony contained. Please read. Maybe worth sharing with your readers. "Here's the sick logic: 1) strange brown...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 05:36 PM
We can know that, because she is $31 million in debt. In his own campaign, Ron has almost $5 million in cash, and no debt. And compare the profligate Rudy's financial performance in the same LA Times political blog post....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 04:57 PM
A friend in the publishing world who enjoys sending me news items he thinks I'll like has sent me the New York Times bestseller list for June 1. Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto is up to #5 after being...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 04:30 PM
Democratic party "strategist," Paul Begala, commented in a cable-TV seance last night that John McCain received only 72% of the GOP vote in Kentucky, and "he had no opposition." Math was never a favorite subject of mine in school, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 10:30 AM
The GOP will nominate their weakest candidate since Wendell Willkie. He’s a dead man walking. The Democrats could nominate a candidate, Hillary, who would be a lock to beat McCain. Instead, they appear to be about to nominate a complete...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 21, 2008 10:17 AM
Ron Paul gets 15%. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 10:14 PM
The Swiss love Ron Paul, and why not? He is Swiss in spirit. And here is a great Swiss review of The Revolution: A Manifesto: "Ron Paul's campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination has probably done more to expose...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 08:26 PM
The proclaimed nominee has, by monarchical Republican standards, again lost face, this time in Kentucky. Here are the votes: McCain 73% Huckabee 8% Ron Paul 7% Uncommitted 5% Romney 5% Giuliani 1% Keyes 1% (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 07:38 PM
That's Washington, all right -- look at this whopper, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation, which will bring you none other than the classic neocon Victor Davis Hanson to talk about -- Liberty! Now I don't know why they have to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 06:54 PM
Meanwhile, in the Occupied Kingdom of Hawaii, the Republicans are dissing Ron Paul supporters too. (Thanks to Paul Likoudis.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 10:58 AM
This ad (.pdf) for the Manifesto was supposed to run in today's USA Today; I never see that paper, so I haven't seen it in print. But it's a good one. Also, Ron Paul will be signing books at the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 10:39 AM
John McCain is in Miami, denouncing the idea of lifting the immoral, anti-civilian, protectionist sanctions against the Cuban people, and Obama for maybe opposing them. Here is an idea for Obama: point out that you agree with all the Popes...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 10:00 AM
Georgia division, as red-state fascists steal delegates from Ron Paul supporters. But can we really be surprised? The Republican party is a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization, as the feds themselves put it. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 09:54 AM
The Republican gang in Maine blackballs Ron Paul supporters....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 09:45 AM
Writes David M. Russell: "I started out attacking Islam with a vengence. I was a Christian Crusader. Then an Iranian guy on YT sent me several emails questioning my hostility. He was able to bring me to my senses with...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 20, 2008 08:43 AM
Writes Rick Fisk: "The book people sold 750 copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto (all that they had in the store). I bought one and took the one I pre-ordered through Amazon with me and Dr. Paul signed both of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 08:36 PM
Just so people know where I'm coming from when I do political analysis, here's my preference list for President: 1. Ron Paul 2. Libertarian Party nominee 3. Nader 4. Clinton 5. Obama 6. McCain I try not to let my...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 08:35 PM
Writes Rand Paul: "Ron visited Kentucky this weekend. More than 700 students and supporters crowded into the Bowling Green High School Basketball Arena. Nashville and Bowling Green television and print media covered the event. Ron's grandson, Will Paul, introduced him....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 04:30 PM
The Baltimore Sun's political blog, when considering the Ron Paul bestseller, poses my Amazon review against J. Davis's....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 04:26 PM
That's what James Pethokoukis says in US News & World Report. (Thanks to Darel.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 04:04 PM
This is a fundamental, human right. Well, within the context of property rights, anyway, and it is thus all the more significant that the way this right is made possible in practice is the market economy. One of the few...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 03:36 PM
The New Yorker calls the death of the GOP "The Fall of Conservatism." They can't bear the onerous burden of reality. Nothing exists to the right of Frum, Kristol, and Brooks. Having made that determination, they're right, of course, that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 01:59 PM
Doug Wead on the continuing GOP conspiracy against Ron and the Paulians. Contains a great story on the bigwig campaign against Ron, and the outrage that anyone should dare to dissent from the partyline....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 10:45 AM
Writes Kristin Larabee: "The picture of the LRC billboard in your Saturday blog made me smile, and I must concur with the gentleman who paid for the ad that education can indeed make a big difference. For example, a mere...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 10:22 AM
Writes Tim Swanson: "Two months, ago Paul peaked at just over 85,000 supporters and then slowly dipped down into 84,000. In the past 3 weeks his fan base has increased and is above 87,000 now." The reason? His new book,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 19, 2008 12:29 AM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 17, 2008 09:44 PM
This classic speech by Ron Paul explains the most fanatical and dangerous ideological groupling in the US foreign policy "community." Interested in the bloodthirsty bunch that agitated for war in Irag, and now wants war in Iran, Syria, and many...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 17, 2008 08:49 AM
Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times political blog thinks Ron has a "mean, vicious, cruel, and uncaring" side for being the only congressman to vote no on a resolution telling Myranmar what to do, but yes on resolutions congratulating US...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 17, 2008 12:17 AM
While all political systems are collectivist in nature, there was at least a time when Republicans could be counted upon - even as they expanded the powers of the state - to speak in individualistic, anti-collectivist words. Apart from a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 16, 2008 10:29 AM
Thanks to Kit Maira on what really is the talk of the nation....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 07:22 PM
Here's Ron Paul being interviewed on the People's Radio....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 06:52 PM
A respectful, even positive, review of The Revolution: A Manifesto....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 05:51 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON--After months of rigorous debate and calculated scientific inquiry, a panel of ten of the nation's leading scientists approved, in a 9-1 vote, the following conclusion: given the Earth's current position in relation to the Sun and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 03:32 PM
Here's Ron Paul-endorsed candidate Murray Sabrin getting some press coverage this weekend as he challenged the maniacal McCain and his neoconservative coterie including Joe Lieberman. Given Lieberman's comments this weekend, it is imperative to stand up to the bipartisan warmongers...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 03:13 PM
Writes Anthony Ajamian: "Much like Charles and Matthew said, Ron Paul changed me. Not so much my political views as I've been a libertarian since I could register to vote, but how I saw things as a whole. When the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 12:41 PM
Ron is interviewed on KTSA in San Antonio about The Revolution: A Manifesto, McCain, and the Fascist Convocation in Minneapolis....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 11:59 AM
Be sure to get a ticket....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 11:28 AM
Of course, the great libertarian athlete has not given up, but is winning the laurels in new ways. Writes conservative James Antle in Politico: "As an author, Ron Paul has accomplished something he failed to do as a Republican presidential...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 10:35 AM
Writes Charles Krblich II: "Last year (coming from the most fascist of the right), I never would have agreed with Matthew Dailey -- the man who wrote you. Now however, I find that a common ground exists between us. Not...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 10:10 AM
My Texas friends tell me yes. I've seen him in action with conservative groups, with a masterful grasp of arcane facts -- but a Game Boy has more memory, and is less inane. Today he tells the WSJ that McCain...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 15, 2008 09:48 AM
Writes Matthew Dailey: " "I'm a twenty-one year-old living in northern California. About a year ago, I was the most leftist of the left, a product of my high school education I'm ashamed to say. But when Ron Paul entered...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 07:05 PM
It's too bad Judge Napolitano has to share the show....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 05:16 PM
I just came out of a Books-a-Million store where, under "New Books on Politics" there was no sign of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. I asked one of the clerks about it and she said it wasn't even in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 10:35 AM
Our friend Professor Murray Sabrin, a Ron Paul Republican, is on the verge of winning the New Jersey GOP nomination to run for the U.S.Senate. The primary is in three weeks. Please do what you can to support him with...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 09:38 AM
Bill Kauffman, author of Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism (which I review here), reviews Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 09:21 AM
Go, Ron, go! He demolishes the evil myth of modern finance: the alleged necessity of central banking, fractional-reserve commercial banking, and monetary depreciation. No wonder the whole establishment fears him, including the Beltway. (Thanks to Kalim Kassam.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 06:12 AM
I am not at all surprised by Paul's 13%. I just moved out of the state, but when I was there, the RP Meetups were big and lively -- often going across the state line to help out in Iowa....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 14, 2008 12:16 AM
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....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 13, 2008 09:00 PM
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.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 13, 2008 12:43 PM
Ron Paul supporters head to the Republican beatification in Minneapolis-St. Paul to dissent from the belligerent social nationalism of McCain....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 13, 2008 10:39 AM
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."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 13, 2008 08:29 AM
"We're pretty much reprinting around the clock!" Do you have your copy yet?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 12, 2008 05:58 PM
Although I wouldn't consider the nomination his, yet. For a while, I would have said it was his for the taking. But many libertarians, and enthusiasts from the Ron Paul Revolution, might find this unsatisfactory: "In a news conference, Barr...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 12, 2008 04:23 PM
Law professor and famous blogger Glenn Reynolds writes a decent review of Ron's important new book. Despite the review, Ron is right on foreign policy, right on earmarks (an executive vs. congress issue, not a spending issue), and right on...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 12, 2008 08:18 AM
As Andrew Malcolm notes in the LA Times political blog, and as highlighted in red by Drudge, there is still a lot of opposition to Cap'n McCain within the Republican party. The Ron Paul guerillas will never give up, as...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 12, 2008 08:00 AM
One of a multitude, a man writes: "I had never heard of the Mises Institute or Austrian Economics until I heard of Ron Paul. Now I read everything I can on your site, and rent books from the library from...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 11, 2008 07:38 PM
Especially, of course, among the anti-McCain Ron Paul activists. Says AFP: "While John McCain is practically assured the Republican presidential nomination, many party members are having a hard time accepting him -- and showing it with symbolic votes against him...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 11, 2008 04:08 PM
His new book is #7 on tomorrow's New York Times bestseller list, #1 on the NYT list for May 18, and now #2 (up from #14 last week) on the Wall Street Journal's list....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 10, 2008 06:53 PM
Not the Ron Paul people in Utah. No kowtowing to the Republicans for them....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 10, 2008 01:40 PM
Ron Paul suporters continue to fight, much to the outrage of the Republicans....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 10, 2008 01:36 PM
My review of Ron Paul's book will appear in Sunday's Orange County Register -- but it's online now. If you appreciate the review, you can click on the "Recommend" button at the top of the article. If enough people do...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 10, 2008 12:14 AM
Next Wednesday (May 14, 6:00 p.m.) Ron Paul 2008 National Youth Coordinator Jeff Frazee will be speaking on a panel at Harvard's Institute of Politics (79 JFK St., Cambridge, Mass.). The topic is "Civic Engagement and the Youth Vote in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 9, 2008 12:25 PM
Writes the Boston Globe: "Senator John McCain is sailing toward his coronation as the Republican presidential nominee while the Democratic candidates battle fiercely. But Republicans also are engaged in some tough infighting that could disrupt the national convention and make...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 9, 2008 10:58 AM
If I may add, it would also be a contest between a disciple of the Prince of Peace and a devotee of Mars the god of war and between a biblical Christian and an imperial Christian....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 9, 2008 09:26 AM
When asked his preferred opponent, Obama or Clinton, McCain said Ron Paul. The war criminal meant it as a joke, but if only: a general election between a man of peace and a mass killer, between an Austrian economist and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 8, 2008 08:06 PM
Marc Scibilia and Israel Anderson are coordinating Freedom Tour '08, which aims to hit 28 cities in five weeks starting next month. Music, speakers, etc., tied up in a Ron Paul/freedom package....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 8, 2008 01:34 PM
They've both had books at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. notes the Boston Globe. In fact, when it comes to the warfare-welfare state, Ron's book is about the audacity of nope....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 8, 2008 11:20 AM
Chris, that event was by invitation only. I think even in D.C. people would want to see him....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 8, 2008 09:05 AM
Inside the beltway, only a "small group" of conservatives meets with Dr. Paul, unlike the rest of the country, where thousands want to see him at every stop. He discusses plans for a July 12 rally in Washington, convention activities,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 8, 2008 08:34 AM
Ron's The Revolution: A Manifesto will be #1 on the May 18th New York Times bestseller list, to the cheers of every good libertarian and conservative, and to the snarls of every bad guy. How sweet it is....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 7, 2008 05:12 PM
An intelligent leftist would have kind words for Ron Paul's book, if only because the man is honest and says sensible and courageous things. Well, the review I'm linking to is written by a leftist, all right, but.... (Thanks to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 7, 2008 04:48 PM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 7, 2008 10:20 AM
Ron Paul has a million votes....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 10:23 PM
See the other three parts of this fascinating show here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 08:06 PM
New Jersey Senate candidate Murray Sabrin (who's running for the Republican nomination with Ron Paul's endorsement) takes on John McCain. Video here; text here (scroll down)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 07:02 PM
At least that is the claim of the semi-socialist UK Independent....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 04:01 PM
"I bought 41 copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul," says one respondent. "We need a man with sound monetary policies in office to prevent things such as this stimulus check from happening again."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 02:37 PM
Ron Paul has never stopped running for president, because his campaign is about changing the party and the country. Jesse Benton talks to WaPo....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 07:44 AM
It's the backs of these shirts I like. It's the book cover from you know what....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 6, 2008 12:14 AM
Ron Paul is once again the leading receiver of military contributions to presidential candidates. The Air Force Times elaborates....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 11:20 PM
As you may have noticed, Amazon.com has sold out of its copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto. In fact, many people are reporting that their local bookstores are sold out as well. However, the Mises bookstore still has copies in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 11:51 AM
(Thanks to Scott Johnsson)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 10:01 AM
"Candidate's a long shot, but local supporters still strong," says the Star News....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 08:32 AM
The "underground legion" is giving Indiana voters a choice, says the Tribune Star. The occupying forces of McCain are vulnerable, insist the Paulian irregulars....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 08:23 AM
The Ron Paul alliance continue to resist McCain's deathstar, reports the LA Times political blog....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 07:48 AM
Ron Paul will sign copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto at BookPeople bookstore, 603 N. Lamar, Austin, Texas, on May 19 at 7:00pm....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 4, 2008 02:39 AM
Writes Scott Johnsson: "I had driven five hours down from the University of Maryland to see Ron Paul in North Carolina. Dr. Paul's speech at UNC was as good as ever. Afterwards, he patiently took pictures with hundreds and hundreds...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 3, 2008 11:36 AM
That is Ron Paul's prediction. And by the way, LA Times, watch his book create many more Paulians, not just please and educate his present vast following....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 3, 2008 09:15 AM
And his new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, is "already a major bestseller," says Wolf Blitzer. (Thanks to Mark Bednarczyk.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 2, 2008 05:17 PM
Professor Sabrin, a Ron Paul Republican running for the US Senate in New Jersey, is putting a big bet on a longshot in the Kentucky Derby. If he wins, the rotten Republican establishment loses. (Thanks to Max Raskin.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 2, 2008 04:52 PM
Thousands to cheer Ron and his message of freedom in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, where he is campaining, much to the Charlotte Observer's astonishment....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 2, 2008 04:23 PM
It's news at the LA Times that Paulians can't stand the fascist neocon warmongering Keynesian parasite for the state....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 2, 2008 09:17 AM
The Revolution will debut at #14 (out of 15), but as we know, that is only the beginning....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 2, 2008 08:42 AM
Writes Omar Hossino: "You are right when you say that Islam blesses gold currency. In fact, many early Islamic writers did not even consider fiat as truly 'money.; Ibn Khaldun, an Islamic theologian and historian, writes that the beginning of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 04:36 PM
Especially in a time of financial crisis. A good piece on the Senate race Ron Paul (a Sabrin supporter) calls the most important in the country....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 04:05 PM
Max, I'd look at it the same way Ron Paul looks at earmarks. The money has already been budgeted for book purchases, so why not direct it toward a good end?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 02:48 PM
Sure, there's the usual MSM eye-rolling at the Ron Paul Movement, but the LA Times's political blog has covered the campaign well, Andrew Malcolm is a snappy and interesting writer, and, well, they like getting hits, so they write about...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 01:44 PM
Slightly snarky, but given that the mag is neocon, the piece on Ron's book could be far worse....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 11:40 AM
Reports Matt, linking to the CNN story: "RON PAUL'S BOOK HITS #1 ON AMAZON..."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 11:32 AM
Just a notice for those who don't follow the official campaign site. Ron Paul will be speaking this Monday, May 5, at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne at 7:00pm. Details here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 11:20 AM
Ron Paul may benefit from the fact that brick-and-mortar stores didn't stock many of his books because that means the purchases will take place over a period of weeks instead of all at once, possibly keeping the book on the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on May 1, 2008 07:17 AM
And in more than book sales, as America is discovering. Here is the CNN Political Ticker on his book success....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 08:37 PM
Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto is already the bestselling libertarian book in history, and it's only begun....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 05:41 PM
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...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 04:59 PM
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...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 04:23 PM
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....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 03:28 PM
The Revolution: A Manifesto....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 03:05 PM
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...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 01:56 PM
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,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 12:05 PM
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...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 10:17 AM
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...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 30, 2008 08:05 AM
Ron Paul participated in what turned out to be an incredible interview tonight on the Bloomberg channel. This is well worth the watch. Part 1, part 2, and part 3....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 29, 2008 10:35 PM
Not to speak of the Party of Lincoln, Hoover, and Bush, the Repugnantcans? Too much enthusiasm for freedom, too many new delegates, too many young people, the wrong guy (Ron Paul) winning fair and square, so Benito Beers shuts down...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 29, 2008 01:26 PM
Writes Barbara Hoffman: "It was pouring rain in NY, so I got on the subway for the trip to Wall Street. Saw a man wearing a Ron Paul hat; he came in from Westchester for the signing. We went to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 29, 2008 12:22 PM
But then Alan was hired by J.P. Morgan & Co., and he became a willing executioner for the Fed, and then then head counterfeiter himself. This depression, the result of his easy money for Wall Street regime, is Alan's. Early...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 29, 2008 11:37 AM
I just got back from a Murray Sabrin fundraiser in Newark where Ron Paul and Peter Schiff both spoke. Selfishly, the highlight was my chance to speak with Dr. Paul for a few minutes. He said he was surprised that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 09:32 PM
Part 1 and Part 2. Unfortunately, neocon Brian Kilmeade is allowed to talk....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 08:55 PM
"The signing [in NYC] was pretty remarkable. Sold out of 530 books before he even got there. More than 850 people showed up…2nd biggest signing in that store besides Bill Clinton. Incredible!"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 08:06 PM
The Libertarian Party has issued a press release calling for "increased coordination and communication between federal and state law enforcement agencies in order to help to apprehend and convict child predators and those who engage in child pornography." While child...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 02:30 PM
Writes Vijay Rajwani: "Some frontline information on Dr. Paul’s book signing today in NYC: I asked for a long lunch break to go see him – I arrived at 1:25 pm, to find that the top floor of Borders on...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 01:14 PM
Frank Rich on--among other questions--Ron Paul, the republican primary, and what they portend for McFascist in November. (Thanks to Anders Mikkelsen.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 12:38 PM
On CNN this morning, to talk about The Revolution: A Manifesto....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 12:28 PM
Watch the clip here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 11:16 AM
Ron Paul will speak at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University this Friday; details here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 09:47 AM
The Republican party continues to be terrified that Ron Paul will run as an independent. Their own internal polling show he'd get so many votes he'd cause the defeat of McCain. Such a run is not in the cards, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 28, 2008 09:22 AM
First an interview on CNN's American Morning (8:24am; all times Eastern), then a radio interview on FOX Radio on Brian and the Judge (Brian Kilmeade and Judge Andrew Napolitano, 10:00am), a book signing at the Borders on Wall Street at...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 27, 2008 08:23 PM
According to the Houston Chronicle--NB: long an enemy of Ron's--he may use his unspent campaign donations for a unique venture: "To further Paul's Libertarian-leaning agenda, his campaign is exploring a novel way to use millions of dollars in leftover donations:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 27, 2008 06:06 AM
"I first met Doctor Ron Paul on Monday, April 11, 2008. Like many students across America, I had participated during the previous year in what supporters dubbed the Ron Paul Revolution. It was, of course, not so much a Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 27, 2008 05:57 AM
In Nevada too. From the story: "Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican with a libertarian’s heart, followed his second-place finish in Nevada’s January presidential caucus by out-organizing the state’s Republican establishment. In the process, the Paulites embarrassed the campaign of Arizona...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 27, 2008 05:46 AM
Of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 26, 2008 03:33 PM
Guiliani, after all, made him a "celebrity," Ron notes, with his warmongering myths and smears. Unlike the Rudester's, Ron's campaign continues to be strong, though the staffers are down from 150 to 15. Indeed, it is vibrant, as the recent...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 26, 2008 03:24 PM
In an interesting and interested article with a nice touch of humor....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 26, 2008 10:41 AM
Why do they keep packing the house and cheering their man, as at the College of Idaho? Don't they realize they are through, beaten, defeated, irrelevant, the media always seem to ask? In fact, like Ron, his supporters know that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 26, 2008 08:29 AM
From The Revolution: A Manifesto: We are engaged in a great battle of ideas, and the choices before us could not be clearer. I urge those who agree with this important message to educate themselves in the scholarship of liberty...Learn...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 25, 2008 02:39 PM
Jamie Kirchick (a.k.a., Kirchickenhawk), the youngster at the left-wing New Republic magazine who teamed up with the Cato Institute (and, incredibly, a real, live, neo-Nazi) to slander and defame Ron Paul, thinks American taxpayers should devote some of their tax...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 25, 2008 01:13 AM
LRC readers may enjoy my article "The Ron Paul Evolution" in the April 21 issue of The American Conservative, in bookstores now. It includes some of my own reminiscences about the campaign, but more importantly, it also looks at some...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 24, 2008 07:35 PM
Paul delegates might not give a suitably fascist atmosphere to the Republican convention, worries Patrick Ruffini (via Dan McCarthy). When speakers call for more mass murder, in the name of one people, one state, one leader, not everyone in the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 24, 2008 02:42 PM
And gives a campaign update....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 24, 2008 11:53 AM
This magnificent antiwar 60-second spot was televised: UPDATE from Chris Rye of the American Liberty Coalition: "Here's a page showing the spots we purchased in Philly. We're going to be airing the ad in other states for the remaining primaries,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 24, 2008 10:33 AM
The newspaper hails a fellow warmonger. Any deviations, from the Times's viewpoint, can be forgiven in a man who backs perpetual war in the Middle East. Ron Paul, who did much better in Pennsylvania than Huckabee, is an afterthought in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 24, 2008 09:28 AM
(Thanks to Lynn.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 24, 2008 08:51 AM
Ron Paul will speak at UNC Chapel Hill on May 2. Details here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 04:38 PM
My wife and I stopped at our local "Trader Joe's" store yesterday afternoon. On our way in, I noticed a car decked out in many Ron Paul stickers and magnetic strips. I stopped and chatted with the woman who owned...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 10:50 AM
I have no idea who these people are, but they have all kinds of good ideas for promoting Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto, and on top of everything else are also organizing book clubs around the book....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 09:55 AM
It's true that Ron supported the libertarian-sounding Reagan of 1976 against Rockefeller Republican Gerald Ford, but when Reagan was in office, Ron Paul battled his endless spending, deficits, and six tax increases. Reagan's one, lonely tax cut, Ron did back,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 09:44 AM
Ron Paul's great showing in Pennsylvania (and New York) illustrates a point I have been making for years. The libertarian movement needs to focus on the Rust Belt. We are the nation’s leading experts on big government because we live...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 09:30 AM
Barnes & Noble is stocking a reasonable number of copies of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto, though still not enough. But Borders and Books A Million seem to have decided to stock (I am not kidding) one copy per...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 08:35 AM
The LA Times political blog, which has thrived off its Ron Paul coverage, is glad Ron is back too [folks, he was never actually away], though it can't help a little typical media eye-rolling....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 08:11 AM
That was neocon Mark Steyn's sarcastic headline in National Review, but for once he's right. All Hail Ron Paul and the Paulians for getting 16% in Pennsylvania (and as high as 28% in one county). Here are the details. The...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 07:57 AM
Great suggestion from Jason. I'm buying a box of the books to give away to friends and acquaintances. And then another box when that one's empty . . . Ron's new book really is the roadmap for our campaign for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 01:16 AM
The Revolution: A Manifesto is #20 overall on Amazon as I type this. Jason Rockwood writes: "You know, Thomas, if every single person who bought a copy of Ron Paul's book bought just one additional copy, think of what it...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 23, 2008 12:03 AM
I just read Part I of David Gordon's The Kochtopus vs. Murray N. Rothbard. Even though I've been paying attention to the Cato Institute and been involved with the Mises Institute for over ten years I have been having trouble...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 11:48 PM
Not being reported on the news, but he is also beating Huckabee....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 09:04 PM
Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto is ranked #3 in Nonfiction at Amazon. And that's before any national media exposure for it, which we presume will occur beginning on the official release date of April 30 (though the book is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 01:44 PM
Writes Izzy Lyman: "I voted in today's Pennsylvania primary, and I was pleased to see Ron Paul's name first on the ballot. After voting for the Doc, I also voted for Patrick Kocher, a homeschooler and a farrier. He is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 01:10 PM
While Bush and his two satraps meet to plan more pork-barrel spending and other evils, including the subjugation of Canada and Mexico by DC and its power elite, Ron Paul stands against them....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 10:48 AM
The Missoulian writes: "Ron Paul spoke at the University of Montana on Monday night, but he tailored his message to neither universities nor Montana." Just his principles. (There's also a pretty good video at the link above. And thanks to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 09:26 AM
More than 1,000 kids turned out to cheer Ron at the Universersity of Montana. "Paul brought the standing-room only crowd to its stomping feet enough times to make the gifted orator Obama blush," notes an incredulous newspaper. Read the story....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 22, 2008 08:33 AM
Latest development in the rEVOLution is Paulvile, an effort to establish establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 21, 2008 08:59 PM
(Thanks to Butler Shaffer.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 21, 2008 05:04 PM
Writes Stephen Fairfax: "My copy of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto is being shipped to my home via UPS. Amazon sent an email with the tracking number. I subscribe to Amazon Prime, which means 2-day shipping at no extra...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 21, 2008 03:24 PM
"Writes Jonathan Martin of Politico: "No, this is not a overdue April Fool's Joke. "Ben Smith just let me know that he heard a Ron Paul ad on KYW, a news station in Philly. "I thought Ben may have had...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 21, 2008 02:57 PM
The LA Times political blog continues to cover Ron because he is so much more interesting than the other Republicans. While making fun of Ron's frugality, Andrew Malcolm notes that Ron is well in the black, while Rudy, who got...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 21, 2008 11:18 AM
Writes Neal Winkler: "Ron Paul delegates were also kicked out of the conventions in Missouri. Points out Brett Rouse, commenting on the expulsion of the Pauliand in Florida: "The following is the preamble to the Party Rules of the Republican...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 21, 2008 08:27 AM
Don't support McCain? We're calling the sheriff....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 20, 2008 07:55 PM
Writes Joe Schembrie: "As Dr. Higgs mentioned, John Maynard Keynes wrote that the debauchery of currency occurs "...in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." "Yet polls show that if Ron Paul ran for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 20, 2008 02:15 PM
So, the Republican hierarchy has informed some delegates to the national convention that they ought not think of themselves as having any real input into the process. The role of the delegates, they were told, is to "contribute to the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 20, 2008 11:47 AM
Applaud when ordered. Otherwise, stay out of the way. Ron Paul delegates get an email of instruction. (Thanks to Eric Garris.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 19, 2008 07:21 PM
Congratulations to Christopher D. Pille for his review of Ron's new book on Amazon: "This book is a must-read. "I truly believe that historians will one day write of THE REVOLUTION as the book that inspired a national movement to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 19, 2008 05:15 PM
In a Wall Street Journal story on Campaign Hook-Ups, it notes: "Jesse Benton, 30, had a serious girlfriend in Washington when he signed up to be communications director for Texas Rep. Ron Paul. That quickly ended when she complained about...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 18, 2008 09:36 AM
Paul will be speaking at a fundraiser for his friend Murray Sabrin who is running for Senate from New Jersey. The event will be held April 28 at the Hilton Newark Penn Station at the Gateway Center in Newark, New...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 18, 2008 07:53 AM
Although Hillary or Obama would do, too. Scott Horton has a great new interview with Michael Scheuer on how US foreign policy is al Qaeda's biggest ally. Only Ron Paul would have worried bin Laden, says Scheuer, former head of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 17, 2008 06:36 PM
Thanks to all the folks who emailed to say they'd received shipping confirmation from Amazon, and that their Ron Paul book was on its way. Told you the system was crazy!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 17, 2008 11:39 AM
Amazon is once again saying The Revolution: A Manifesto will be in stock within 8 to 10 weeks. This is a crazy, nonsensical statement, since the book's official release is less than two weeks away. But let me share some...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 17, 2008 07:06 AM
Writes Brian Holk: "The debate tonight is great. Two pandering politicians sponsored by the military industrial complex subjected to questioning from two slavering sycophants from the corporate media. "A real debate would include all four of the major party candidates...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 16, 2008 08:25 PM
Write Barry Goldwater, Jr., and John Dean about the new book, Pure Goldwater: "A basic reason why Barry Goldwater still matters, aside from his being a historical figure and fascinating personality, is found in the way he viewed others and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 16, 2008 05:17 PM
Ron Paul will be speaking at an event for U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey Murray Sabrin at the Hilton Newark Penn Station on April 28 from 6:30-8:00pm. Details here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 16, 2008 03:32 PM
Ron Paul will be signing copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto at the Wall Street Borders store on April 28 at 1:00pm. Details here. UPDATE: Newt Gingrich will be signing books at the same store the very next day, so...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 16, 2008 03:26 PM
US News interviews Ron on government plans to bailout various special interests, and to damage the economy, the dollar, and private property rights even more....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 16, 2008 09:37 AM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 16, 2008 08:27 AM
NEWS FLASH: debasing a currency causes prices to rise! Well, it's apparently news to these guys, who stumbled upon a study that backs up what Ron Paul (and the rest of the Austrian school) have been pointing out all...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 10:37 PM
This August in Lake Jackson, Texas, Ron and Carol's granddaughter, Valori Pyeatt, and Ron's press secretary, Jesse Benton, will be getting married. A story on the couple, who met through the presidential campaign, is due out shortly in the Wall...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 05:04 PM
The real, that is, versus the phony. Here are the McCain recipegate shenanigans. For a real cookbook, of Ron Paul's and other family and supporters' favorites, phone 1-800-RON-PAUL for a copy of Carol Paul's. It is free for the asking....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 04:46 PM
How dare Ron bother Ben Bernanke, instead of kowtowing like everyone else? (Thanks to Gary North.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 03:14 PM
Writes Keith Mercer: "I have been a financial adviser for 20 years. While I have had a tendency to occasionally rant about fiat money and such things, people usually responded like I was the crazy uncle in the family. Amazingly,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 01:22 PM
For joining Barney Frank in opposing evil federal intervention against internet gambling. (Thanks to Norm.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 10:24 AM
Reports a young friend of Tom DiLorenzo's: "Ron spoke to a packed house at Goucher College last "evening. He was amazingly well received by the mostly college-aged crowd. There were a lot of senior citizens in attendance as well, which...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 08:53 AM
"Journalist" Dan Calabrese writes: Before Dick Cheney passes from this life to the next, he ought to receive another Presidential Medal of Freedom for boldly protecting this country while interminably catching holy hell for doing so. (He already got it...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 15, 2008 07:20 AM
Goucher College in Baltimore invited Ron Paul for their President's Forum this evening (as in President of the College, not President of the US). The sophomore who introduced him did a wonderful job, Ron Paul's speech was inspiring, and then...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 14, 2008 10:24 PM
Ron Paul, that is. Ralph Nader, who is also calling for a new, independent investigation of the 911 murders, praises Ron for his opposition to war and imperialism, and domestic imperialism in the guise of the war on drugs. (Thanks...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 14, 2008 03:18 PM
We can only hope! Writes George Will in Newsweek: "Compact and Feisty Bob Barr, 59, probably will seek and get the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, which convenes in Denver on Memorial Day weekend. Given the recent fund-raising prowess...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 14, 2008 10:59 AM
The Ron Paul forces that control the GOP in Spokane, Washington, withdraw the party's endorsement of the Bush-McCain war. (Thanks to Tim Schut.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 14, 2008 09:00 AM
Writes Brian Engle: "Yesterday, I was getting my oil changed and happened to overhear a comment from a woman talking to her friend about having to write a paper on monetary policy and the gold standard. She was complaining about...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 13, 2008 03:13 PM
For his opposition to that counterfeiting, redistributing, impoverishing (for most), enriching (for the few), lying pillar of the power elite, the US federal reserve, which is destabilizing the world....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 13, 2008 01:25 PM
From the Orlando Sentinel: "Presidential candidate Ron Paul has already lost his bid for the White House, but that hasn't stopped his loyal followers from staging a political uprising within Orange County Republican Party ranks and beyond. "The push to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 13, 2008 12:52 PM
Writes Rob Chase: "We had our Spokane County, WA, convention today. Out of 111 possible delegates to our state convention, our Ron Paul slates won 107!"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 13, 2008 12:45 PM
Ron's brilliant freedom primer, a book that can change America--and the minds of your friends and family and business associates--is now available from Amazon (though the long shipping reference is an error--it will ship FAST). The Revolution: A Manifesto could...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 12, 2008 05:08 PM
Sara Ganim in the Centre Daily Times: "As long as there are supporters, Ron Paul says he’s not going anywhere. "Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul addresses the crowd at Penn State's Intramural Building on Friday, April 11, 2008. "And...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 12, 2008 04:38 PM
Nice coverage and photos of Ron Paul at his alma mater today....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 11, 2008 09:14 PM
GL writes: "Hi, Kathryn, just got back. Great rally in Gettysburg! There were dozens of Ron Paul signs along US 15 on the way up."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 11, 2008 03:56 PM
From Ron Paul, naturally....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 11, 2008 10:12 AM
To try to keep Ron Paul supporters in line....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 11, 2008 08:05 AM
Here is Andrew Malcolm in the Chicago Tribune on The Revolution: a Manifesto, which he correctly calls the "Next Chapter in the Ron Paul Revolution." Malcolm is funny and sarcastic, as usual, but good for him for his continuing coverage...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 11, 2008 07:41 AM
As Ron asked all the right questions, such as why we are still at war in Iraq when the whole thing was undertaken under false pretenses (i.e., a big lie), and whether or not Congress should first declare war, as...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 10, 2008 01:54 PM
Writes Brendan: "As I watched Petraeus glaring at Ron, I couldn't help but think, with that long face, angular, hunched shoulders, and that glare, who does Petreaeus remind me of? Why--General Grevious!"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 10, 2008 11:41 AM
Those who have yet to understand the vacuous nature of electoral politics need only pay attention to the current presidential circus. I don't know what additional evidence would need to be presented to demonstrate how elections serve but one purpose:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 10, 2008 09:48 AM
Once again, Ron is the only man in the House of Unrepresentatives not to take the prowar, CIA line. He refuses to do what is constitutionally none of the US government's business: intervene in China. He is also keenly aware...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 10, 2008 09:08 AM
Ron Paul asks the two proconsuls of the province of Iraq, Petraeus and Crocker, the questions all decent people want answered. Catch Petraeus's fury in response. In our militaristic system, the hard-faced, violence-purveying generals must never, ever hear a discouraging...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 10, 2008 08:02 AM
Thanks to Robert Wegner for this item from AP demonstrating how the rEVOLUtion is changing American politics for the better: "[Chelsea Clinton] really has gotten more questions on whether or not her mother believes the U.S. dollar should be tied...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 9, 2008 08:55 PM
OK, OK, how many times do you say that under your breath every day without posting the offending material? But the Little Frummer Boy is just too much. Why is the GOP losing the youth vote, he asks -- ignoring...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 9, 2008 09:38 AM
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear--kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fevor--with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 8, 2008 09:13 PM
At Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, April 14, 2008 (nice website!). Ron will also speak at Penn State this Friday....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 8, 2008 07:06 PM
Ron Paul's, of course. Here's what I've heard: Tomorrow is the date when books will be shipping from the publisher's warehouse to fill bookstore orders. So the book will start showing up in the stores sometime between then and the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 8, 2008 04:16 PM
That's part of the libertarian creed, so no surprise it's the motto of the Ron Paul volunteers. In Minnesota, much to the upset of the warmongering police statists who form the Republican establishment, Ron Paul people got six of 12...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 8, 2008 08:21 AM
This YouTube about Ron Paul's new book is also very good....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 07:11 PM
Watch the YouTube; buy the handbook....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 05:06 PM
Writes Joshua Reid: "With the travesty that we all just witnessed in the Republican primaries I was curious to why I had not seen a lot of people exclaiming for a Ron Paul Write-In on the ballot in November. I...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 01:19 PM
The Sage of Batavia has a new book out. Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism "For those who have been neoconned into believing that conservatism means unquestioned support for the warfare state, Ain’t...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 12:25 PM
In a speech in Pennsylvania, Ron says that although he didn't coin the word "revolution" to describe what he was all about, he came to embrace it. He goes on to say that he was motivated to scratch down a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 12:06 PM
... and it's not all hostile. After all, McCain is (a) not conservative, and (b) a dead duck anyway. Increasingly, conservatives recognize that all the likely candidates from both major parties worship the state. Hence, for millions of us, the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 09:44 AM
Yes, says Justin Raimondo, if Barr runs as an antiwar populist, though that would offend the kochosphere. "[Populism], of course, is the element in the Paul campaign that most alienated the more 'cosmopolitan' elements of the libertarian movement, and in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 08:44 AM
McCain and company do not want Ron Paulian Murray Sabrin to win the nomination for US senate in New Jersey, so they keep recruiting or trying to recruit opponents. The latest has said no, so Murray is left with his...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 7, 2008 08:18 AM
Jon Friedman is correct: the mainstream media ignored Ron Paul, and when they didn't, their eyes were rolling in disdain at having to mention a libertarian. Jon also notes that the media deliberately turned away from the amazing Ron connection...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 6, 2008 11:10 AM
Writes Erik Ellison: "Just saw Wired did a tribute to D&D founder Gary Gygax by rolling up D&D versions of famous people. The included a great version of Ron Paul."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 5, 2008 09:28 PM
It was SRO in a 650-seeat auditorium at Pitt for Ron, reports Jeffrey Herbener (from his students who attended). 700 kids at least, though no media....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 4, 2008 03:13 PM
Of all the MSM media, the LA Times's politial blog has treated Ron the least unfairly. Still sarcastic, of course, but at least the coverage has been regular. See the latest example....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 4, 2008 03:05 PM
The webzine deigns to notice that Ron Paul is still a candidate, and being greeted enthusiastically at Pennsylvania colleges. What is the matter with Ron, that he won't bend the knee to McCain? Maybe it's beacause McCain is not the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 4, 2008 11:32 AM
Tom Woods is exactly right about the brilliance and coming influence of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. Here, btw, is the table of contents: 1. The False Choices of American Politics 2. The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 4, 2008 10:34 AM
Writes Ben Hardesty: "I had the privilege of seeing Ron Paul speak at Pitt last night. He was riveting. Here's an article about the other speech he gave yesterday, at IUP. Notice the extreme snarkiness of the author contrasted with...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 4, 2008 09:04 AM
Young people know they have been cheated by the power elite and its wars, taxes, fiat money, bailouts, and police state. That's why the Ron Paul Revolution is a permanent one. And unlike the Trotskyite-neocon permanent revolution, Ron Paul's is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 4, 2008 08:25 AM
In a private election game for smart kids at 500 coleges and universities, the leaders are Ron Paul and Stephen Colbert. Hillary, McCain, etc. are way behind. In other words, government politics is as messed up as anything else run...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 3, 2008 10:22 AM
Justin Raimondo's article today exposes what most ordinary, non-Kochtopusian libertarians must consider to be a shocking takeover of [T]Reason magazine by pro-war, pro-state neocons. A few of Justin's points are worth reiterating here on the blog: [T]Reason's new editor, one...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 3, 2008 05:04 AM
Chris K. sends me an excerpt from the latest issue of "Imprimis," the neocon newsletter published by Hillsdale College. In particular, he highlights a ridiculous smear of Ron Paul by one Charles Kessler, the Harvard-educated professor of government at Claremont...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 3, 2008 04:28 AM
Bob Barr introduces Ron Paul....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 08:50 PM
Congratulations to Ron Paul supporter Kane for winning the ECW Championship at Wrestlmania XIV. Today ECW tomorrow the world!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 07:52 PM
Those Jesse Ventura videos were even better than I expected. Surely it's a good sign that "revolution" is on more and more people's lips -- and will be even moreso when Ron Paul's book arrives. The establishment has been wanting...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 07:21 PM
Besides being a circumscription of our personal freedoms, such a move threatens all of e-commerce, explains Declan McCullagh. Need I mention that the soundest guy on this -- and the leader in congress -- is Ron Paul? Nah. You knew...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 06:53 PM
Ron is the one opponent of Fed fascism on Capitol Hill, and the only person to understand the business cycle. (Thanks to Chris Rhoades.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 11:34 AM
Writes Jeffrey R. Snyder: "Jesse Ventura speaks on the need for a non-violent revolution to rid ourselves of the Republican and Democrat 'two party dictatorship,' to permit Americans to cast a vote for 'none of the above,' to send a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 08:52 AM
Good for Glenn Beck for an interview about something other than the Hillary-McCain-Obama reality show. (Thanks to Chris Rhoades.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 2, 2008 08:09 AM
I always liked the late Henry Gonzales of Texas. He tried to impeach George H.W. Bush for war crimes, and he battled the economic crimes of Bush's family ally, Alan Greenspan. Gonzales could have been far more effective if he...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 1, 2008 07:58 PM
In reference to my post, a reader writes: Ron Paul is speaking in Bellefield Hall in Pittsburgh; the 110 Music Hall refers to a completely different venue. Meetup folks here said that there was a switch in where he was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 1, 2008 04:12 PM
I turned off his one-note rants when the alleged war skeptic refused to even mention Ron Paul. Recently--no surprise--the rich socialist Keith has been attacking Wal-Mart, the working man's friend. Here is a link, if you can stand it, to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 1, 2008 01:24 PM
The campaign website has Dr. Paul at two Pennsylvania universities this Thursday. That's not a lot of notice, so I figured spreading the news far and wide (which is what an LRC blog entry does!) couldn't hurt: 1. Ron Paul...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 1, 2008 10:56 AM
The ex-congressman wants to run for president on the Libertarian party ticket, and may have his friend Ron Paul's blessing, reports the LA Times. The McNeocons can't be happy at this news....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on April 1, 2008 07:56 AM
The three contenders: one's worse than the other. Obama may be slightly better than Hillary on foreign policy but he won't leave Iraq either. He's worse than Hillary on domestic policy and is more likely to last two terms. Yuck....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 31, 2008 08:18 PM
Our friend Murray Sabrin has the New Jersey (and national) neocons on the run. They keep trying to put up big government losers (like themselves) to run against Murray for the Republican nomination for the U.S. senate, but none of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 31, 2008 06:50 PM
A letter is circulating the meetups from a Captain Tucker, who is stationed in Afghanistan. In the letter, he suggests sending liberty care packages to him (to share) or to "any soldier." In his list of suggested items is Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 31, 2008 07:44 AM
Rod Dreher has brought to our attention Alasdair Macintyre's 2004 essay urging the importance of not choosing "between two politically intolerable alternatives..." "Why should we reject both? Not primarily because they give us wrong answers, but because they answer the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 29, 2008 06:10 PM
In an interview with Scott Horton on Wednesday, Barr said he takes the encouragement for him to run "very seriously, and [thinks] it also reflects a great deal of dissatisfaction with the current candidates and the current two-party system." And...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 28, 2008 10:10 PM
Don't miss this excerpt from The Revolution: A Manifesto. It's a taste of why this book, if read by enough people, can change the future....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 28, 2008 04:55 PM
...a copy of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. The book is as handsome as it is significant. From the moving dedication to his supporters to the sections on false choices, foreign policy, the Constitution, economic freedom, personal freedom, money,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 28, 2008 03:27 PM
Terrible rumors from Russia continue to swirl around the Middle East that the Cheney-Bush junta has decided to bomb Iran on April 4th or 6th, targeting not only nuclear-power research facilities but ships, planes, antiaircraft installations, and the Iranian pentagon....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 28, 2008 09:35 AM
The TMS, based on the theoretical work of Murray N. Rothbard, gives us the best possible look at the speed of the Federal Reserve's counterfeiting press. The Mises Institute maintains it here. And here is more on the theoretical basis,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 28, 2008 08:58 AM
And Ron's revolutionary Manifesto is our Common Sense. And thanks to Kitty Carr for reminding me that, though the list price from the publisher is $21, "the price is now $14.28 at Amazon, with an additional 5% knocked off if...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 28, 2008 08:28 AM
then why is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation planning to hire 140 new employees to deal with the forthcoming wave of bank failures. Fortunately, the FDIC recently moved into a Taj Mahal-like structure in Northern Virgina--ironically about two blocks away...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 06:59 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE REVOLUTION: A MANIFESTO by Ron Paul A Grand Central Publishing Hardcover Publication date: April 30, 2008 $21.00 192 pages ISBN: 0-446-53751-3 CONTACT: Erica Gelbard 212-364-1290 erica.gelbard@hbgusa.com THE REVOLUTION: A Manifesto By Ron Paul “The real truth...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 02:43 PM
I'll be speaking at the Libertarian Party of Ohio annual convention on the evening of April 5. My topic is "State Opposition to Federal Tyranny." Also on the agenda is libertarian radio talk show host extraordinaire Brian Wilson, who's been...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 01:41 PM
I haven't seen this posted anywhere, so here goes: Ron Paul will deliver a lecture in the President's Forum Lecture Series at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 14 at 7:30pm, in the college's Kraushaar Auditorium. Afterward he'll sign...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 10:47 AM
Writes rave dj susan28: "Today I was asked by MoveOn.org to explain why I don't support McCain, and I cheerfully obliged them - but I think my response might have been more than they bargained for :). I've copied it...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 10:06 AM
Writes Wayne Uffleman: "I was just talking to my RP supporting classmates and we all had the same thought about the Time article. The print media love to put Ron Paul's economics off to the side by making a snide...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 09:29 AM
Why has the media blackout ended? A neat post from Paulians in Europe....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 08:15 AM
And catch the reference to a Ron Paul-Mike Gravel ticket....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 08:06 AM
"To write off Ron Paul as a loopy reactionary ignores his courageous stand on Iraq and Israel," says the leftish London Guardian to plug a must-read article on "Washington's Good Doctor," by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the sort of brilliant intellectual-journalist that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 27, 2008 07:33 AM
"Paul's leave-us-alone libertarianism hasn't fit in with a party anxious to read our e-mail, improve our values, assert American power abroad and subsidize friendly industries at home. The party's recent mix of 'national greatness' neoconservatives, evangelical theoconservatives and K Street...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 26, 2008 02:33 PM
Writes Elizabeth MacDonald on FOX Business: "Time to listen to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the lone voice of reason in Congress today who’s got to feel like he’s shouting into a field of cotton with his repeated warnings about the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 26, 2008 02:07 PM
Writes Steven Heller, co-chairman of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, in the NY Times: "Although Ron Paul may be mathematically out of contention for the Republican nomination, from what I can tell, he has inspired...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 26, 2008 01:18 PM
I agree that they make it difficult to go third party for President but the way the three candidates keep shooting themselves in the foot makes you wonder. McCain was either confused or never knew about Iran being a Shiite...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 26, 2008 09:05 AM
Thanks to Tom Rambo for this Ron Paul YouTube....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 24, 2008 11:08 AM
In Missouri, party functionaries keep caucus reports secret from Paul supporters. What McCainite shenanigans are they hiding? (Thanks to Steven Winters.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 24, 2008 10:21 AM
Monday night on the first hour of George Noory's Coast to Coast, the radio show with the largest nighttime audience in the world and more than 600 affiliates, Ron Paul will talk about his important new book, The Revolution: A...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 23, 2008 03:23 PM
Articles: Bob Higgs, Gary North (3), Mike Rogers, Ron Paul (2), Vin Suprynowicz, Bill Bonner, Lew Rockwell. And blogs....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 23, 2008 03:15 PM
Press secretary Jesse Benton clarifies it on FOX News...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 23, 2008 02:33 PM
Without Tucker, MSNBC is a partisan swamp. He gave some class and intelligence to the place--while the rest seem focused on biting Hillary's ankle. Now I rarely tune into the GE network at night. Shame on MSNBC for firing Tucker....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 22, 2008 04:40 PM
Writes Dave Matthew: "Would this MSM story have been published, would these questions have been asked, without Ron Paul? Let's see what their answers are, and if they're published, too. The Revolution begins..."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 22, 2008 04:29 PM
An appreciation from an Obama supporter of this hyper-creative volunteer ad: "After viewing this ad/promotional video I have an understanding of his position on the war, the presidency and why we are in a whole heap of trouble. It is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 22, 2008 01:29 PM
That is Ron Paul's presidential philosophy....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 22, 2008 10:22 AM
Butler Shaffer writes to Bill Moyers: "Your program, 'The Body of War,' was well done. However, in showing various members of Congress speaking out against this war, you failed to mention one of the very few who has consistently opposed...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 21, 2008 11:52 PM
Writes Chris Rye: "We just posted The Making of The High Tide. Shows all the different layers of renders and compositing that went into creating the visuals of the piece. Enjoy!" And here is The High Tide....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 21, 2008 11:41 PM
Mary Ruwart, scientist and famously persuasive, widely respected, and radically principled libertarian author, has declared her bid for the 2008 Libertarian Party nomination for president. I've long loved her book Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression, which her...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 21, 2008 09:01 PM
And McNeocon can forget an endorsement. See the Newsweek story on Ron....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 21, 2008 06:44 PM
That's why he was "kicked out of the republican party," says Peter Schiff on CNN. In fact, Ron has educated millions on the evil of the central bank, and helped build the base for real monetary reform....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 21, 2008 10:49 AM
(Thanks to Mark Bednarczyk)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 20, 2008 08:14 PM
The Nevada Republican Party has invited Ron Paul to be a keynote speaker at at their state convention on April 26th in Reno. Expect no such intelligence and tolerance from the national Republicans in St. Paul....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 20, 2008 11:37 AM
The funda-neocon site that so viciously opposed Ron Paul for president announced the other day that it would have an exclusive scoop on Ron's congressional column. I took this as eyewash, since that would be illegal, not to speak of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 20, 2008 11:16 AM
Now Robert Novak, long time adjunct of Karl Rove's, refers to the "paranoid grievances on the left and right that built support for Ron Paul's presidential candidacy." Can't have people questioning the official counterfeiter and its bankster pals. Just believe,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 20, 2008 10:45 AM
Ron Paul has amassed the money and the dedicated volunteers to take over the Republican party county by county, says the LA Times blog. The paper also notes that Ron's very solvent campaign has no debt....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 20, 2008 10:07 AM
I've said for years that New York State is fertile ground for libertarian ideas. We proved it this year. NY was one of Ron Paul's best primary states with 6.2%. New Hampshire was barely higher but much money was spent...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 20, 2008 09:25 AM
"The occupation of Iraq began five years ago today, but few realize that the march to war began ten years ago under Bill Clinton, when regime change became official U.S. policy. In 1998, I took to the House floor in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 19, 2008 09:43 PM
Ron Paul is not turning his voters, his donors, nor his volunteers over to a warmongering police-statist. Notes the LA Times blog, riffing off the same story that so exercised Comrade Kristol: "He won more than 800,000 primary votes, more...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 19, 2008 09:03 PM
Watch the video and thanks to Asdfjkll....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 19, 2008 08:51 PM
That's the neocon line. Note that this attack on Ron Paul (and me) contains no argument, just the typical eek-a-mouse PC rhetoric. (Thanks to Ron Vitiello.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 19, 2008 06:41 PM
In Missouri, and many other states. McCain the Barbarian will have to reckon with them....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 18, 2008 01:53 PM
This time in the good Washington. (Thanks to Justin Raimondo.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 17, 2008 08:36 PM
Murray Sabrin's sole primary opponent, Joe Pennacchio is in serious trouble. A booklet has been discovered penned by Pennacchio under the alias "Joseph Penn" entitled The Nationalist Agenda: A Blueprint for the 21st Century. Can the stakes be any more...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 17, 2008 03:31 PM
In Missouri Republican county conventions....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 17, 2008 02:40 PM
I was a guest on Ron Paul Revolution Radio this morning; this link takes you to the mp3, the first 18 or so minutes of which is the second half of my segment. We talked about The Politically Incorrect Guide...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 17, 2008 12:36 PM
Writes Russ Mohan: "Ron Paul is quoted positively and prescriptively near the end of the article. What's next? An acknowledgement by the New York Times that the Iraq-upation was, and is, a lie? The mind reels..."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 17, 2008 10:58 AM
The slime brigade is smearing Obama, and for the same reasons, as Justin Raimondo shows. (Thanks to Anthony Gregory.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 17, 2008 09:51 AM
Marketwatch: "Acting quickly to prevent a run on major global financial firms, the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.25% and offered to lend money to a longer list of firms than ever before....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 16, 2008 08:45 PM
And who's next after bankrupt Bear, Stearns? Lehman Brothers? They can all count on a bailout. As a prominent German economist told me this weekend, the central bank will ignite global hyperinflation rather than let Wall Street and the big...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 16, 2008 04:05 PM
Last week: Gary North (x 2), Ron Paul, Fred Reed, Floy Lilley, Jim Cox, Michael Gaddy, Tom Woods, Bill Lind, and Lew Rockwell. And here are the top blog posts....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 16, 2008 01:01 PM
Writes Michael Scheuer: "Just a note to say that the reception of my new book by the establishment press has given me some small idea of what Dr. Paul has gone through. Defending America effectively seems to be a filthy,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 16, 2008 12:03 PM
Republicans fear aliens: principled supporters of what are, in popular rhetoric, Republican principles. In fact, of course, the Republicans are the preeminent party of fascism, perpetual war, the police state, militarism, socialism for the rich, nationalism, and dictatorship. No wonder...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 15, 2008 10:35 AM
Amazon.com has just added Dr. Paul's forthcoming The Revolution: A Manifesto to its "Look Inside" program. Click on the book cover image and you'll find a link to a six-page excerpt. This may or may not work for you depending...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 15, 2008 08:37 AM
You have no privacy rights. Everything you do is the business of the federal police state, in its perverted view. So not only have the feds wrecked havoc on foreign countries and put us into a punishing recession, they have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 14, 2008 03:23 PM
The Revolution lives! Take a look at this amazing 60-second volunteer-made spot. For a hi-res view, go here, and thanks to Steven Winters....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 14, 2008 08:31 AM
... over the death of two members of the Trough family. 1. Retired Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH) dies at age 90. 2. "The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 13, 2008 11:32 AM
See Alan Bock from the Orange County Register....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 13, 2008 09:03 AM
Writes Minnesota Chris: "I'm not sure why it was put on Youtube and promptly pulled, but see this unaired campaign ad." It's back (thanks to Diane Mickelson.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 13, 2008 08:59 AM
There is supposed to be a vote this week on the McCain-DeMint One Year Moratorium on Earmarking. I can not find the text of this amendment (anyone?), so I don't really know what it says, but it is co-sponsored by...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 12, 2008 05:06 PM
Global currency debasement is a disaster, as Ron Paul is the only one to note. (Thanks to Bob A.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 12, 2008 10:01 AM
The Fed takes its "boldest" (read, most reckless and damaging) action since its previous Great Depression, to bail out Fannie Mae and the rest of the fascist government - business partnerships underlying the crisis, and which cannot be saved, though...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 12, 2008 09:41 AM
Normal people like Philip Weiss are outraged and astounded to know that using your own cash, honestly gained and (dishonestly) taxed, can be a major-league federal felony. Spending $10,000 or more of your own cash without filling out a federal...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 12, 2008 08:36 AM
Jack Hunter, pro-Russell Kirk and pro-Ron Paul, on what he says is the damage done by Bill Buckley....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 12, 2008 08:23 AM
"Mr. Speaker, I rise in somewhat reluctant support of this vote to override the President's veto of H.R. 2062, the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2008. Although I voted against this authorization when it first came to the floor, the main...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 12, 2008 08:18 AM
Exposed of being a Ron Paul Republican who will stand up for civil liberties, that is. Opponent: "You know what? If you support Ron Paul, then you need to support my young primary opponent. Because he's a Ron Paul Libertarian,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 10, 2008 12:42 PM
Scott Horton interviews Ron for Antiwar Radio....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 10, 2008 10:29 AM
Ron Paul explains on CNN this morning that if he had been focused on gaining power over others, his campaign would be done, but since he wants to influence the climate of ideas, his work will never end. As to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 10, 2008 07:52 AM
My hometown newspaper ran my Letter to the Editor about Science Debate 2008 today. Things have changed since I sent the letter: Huckabee dropped out, yet he is one of the invitees to this debate. That was close! Now they...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 10, 2008 07:29 AM
From the Amazon page for The Revolution: A Manifesto: "The real truth about Liberty. This book takes a wrecking ball to the political establishment. Senator Goldwater would have loved it -- it's The Conscience of a Conservative for the 21st...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 9, 2008 01:56 PM
The Fed-Wall Street-big bank combine is coming down. As Ron Paul notes, it is crazed financial profligacy that brings down empires. And this time, we also have a central bank with global reach, and no restrictions on its ability to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 9, 2008 10:46 AM
Obama and Hillary sent their top guns to Meet the Press today and Ed Rendell (for Hillary) simply ate Tom Daschle’s (Obama) lunch. It was embarrassing. The look on Tom's phony face when Ed proposed a re-vote for Florida and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 9, 2008 08:57 AM
Check the number of views of this anti-Hillary take-off of an old Apple ad, though I wish I could post an accurate version with Cheney onscreen, and Ron Paul as the solution! (Thanks to Rolf Lindgren.) This pro-Hillary ad is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 8, 2008 09:19 PM
The safe congressional seat of Republican Dennis Hastert, ex-speaker of the house, corrupt tool of Tom DeLay, and no friend to Ron Paul, has been won by the Democratic candidate. (Thanks to Brad Funkouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 8, 2008 09:00 PM
Philip Weiss on the one congressional voice of conscience on the Middle East....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 8, 2008 06:30 PM
Writes Ron's son: "Is the Revolution Over or Just Beginning? "Reports that Ron Paul has quit the Presidential Race remind me of Mark Twain's famous quote, 'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.' The Ron Paul Presidential campaign continues albeit...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 8, 2008 05:29 PM
According to the Victoria Advocate, a newspaper in his congressional district, "Ron Paul says not so fast. Despite reports indicating otherwise, the Texas Republican is not ending his long-shot campaign for presidency, Paul’s top spokesman said Friday. “'Dropping out is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 8, 2008 04:55 PM
Mark Kurlansky at the LA Times gives a very favorable review to Nicholson Baker's new book, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II: The End of Civilization, which Kurlansky describes as "a meticulously researched and well-constructed book demonstrating that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 8, 2008 01:41 PM
The NY Times (the newspaper of empire) and Fortune (the CIA business news) celebrate (prematurely)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 7, 2008 08:14 PM
I have never heard of this paper, but apparently it seeks to worm its way into the good graces of the establishment media by taking cheap-shots at Ron Paul. The rest of the media performed their assigned tasks by ignoring...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 7, 2008 06:04 PM
CNN: Spokesman: Ron Paul Will End Presidential Run...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 7, 2008 01:42 PM
Here's CNN's take on last night's Ron Paul YouTube....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 7, 2008 08:24 AM
No, not the conventions. The release of Ron Paul's manifesto. Says Dr. Paul: "Most important will be the continued emphasis on the message. That message, simply put, is the message of human liberty. A more detailed outline of this message...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 6, 2008 09:50 PM
Ron announces that he will work through his FREE Foundation and his Liberty PAC, which will take the place of the winding-down presidential campaign. There will be no DC march, at least one organized by Ron, but an RP...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 6, 2008 08:42 PM
At least that is what ABC News is reporting, implying it comes from inside sources. UPDATE from Salon....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 6, 2008 08:09 PM
Ron Paul Republican Murray Sabrin is now one candidate away from winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Citing health reasons, candidate Anne Evans Estabrook, a millionaire who planned to self-finance her campaign, dropped out of the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 6, 2008 02:41 PM
Ron's campaign has changed America, and it's changed his supporters, points out MSNBC. As for himself, since his congressional victory, Ron says, “I’m still involved, nothing has changed." He has not called McCain to congratulate the little fascist, and hopes...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 6, 2008 08:38 AM
Actually, it would be far easier to remember neocon truths, given how few there are of them. But still, let's not forget the anti-Ron Paul Roger Simon and his prevaricating pumping up of Peden in Pajamas Media....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 08:14 PM
Dr. No says Yes to peace and decency--the only person in Congress to do so--by refusing to endorse a bloody colonial occupation, complete with almost total anti-civilian protectionism, for which American taxpayers are unconstitutionally looted. Want to know why the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 07:00 PM
Writes Daniel: "RP spoke today before the annual lobby day of the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association here on the Hill. They are the group that wants government to stay out of their business. It was an enormous success....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 03:18 PM
And he won't, apparently, until Ron drops out of the presidential race, according to this Texas newspaper story, which also reports that "Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said Paul 'remains in the (presidential) race and will do so as long as...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 02:44 PM
Writes Tom Donlin: "I read your blog entry about Dr. Paul being returned to Congress for another term. I also see you mentioned our neocon radio mouthpieces, Edd Hendee and Pat Gray of KSEV. Good commentary! I bet they're wondering...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 01:43 PM
"So does Elizabeth Kuchinich's husband," says an early post on the LA Times political blog (and thanks to Gary North)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 08:37 AM
Of all the blather coming out of the trap of Hillary Clinton, the one thing ABC Radio chose to broadcast at the top of the hour all day long the day before the Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont primaries...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 08:19 AM
Here are some of Ron's comments last night: "I am honored that the voters in the 14th District expressed their continued confidence in my leadership by overwhelmingly reelecting me to the House of Representatives. I have no Democrat opponent in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 08:09 AM
Well, some of them, anyway. With 100% of the precincts reporting in the 14th congressional district, Ron Paul got 70.2%, With only 29.8%, and so much establishment bling, the Pedster may not even be a viable candidate for the neocons...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 5, 2008 07:48 AM
Beating challenger Chris Peden better than 2-1, AP declares Ron Paul the winner for reelection to Congress. Paul faces no Democratic opponent....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 09:46 PM
Ron Paul on the inevitable financial storm that will be the result of interventionist legislation and monetary hegemony....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 09:26 PM
UPDATED: At 1:25am EST, Ron Paul is leading 70-30! Paul 37,106 Peden 15,740 with 267 of 269 precincts reporting...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 07:49 PM
On the economic crisis, in Forbes, and thanks to Minnesota Chris....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 04:08 PM
I hear that Ron Paul and Bob Barr will be meeting soon to discuss a possible independent or third-party ticket, and possible cooperation in other political and educational efforts. Great news!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 03:59 PM
Thanks to famed rave dj susan28 for this: Let It Be (thanks to the Beatles for the riff and Ron Paul for the inspiration!) when i see the world in times of trouble, Dr Paul, he emails me; speaking words...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 03:06 PM
A funny-awful neocon attack on Ron Paul, his book publisher, his age, Floy Lilley, LRC, and the "Mises crowd," which brought us Lincoln's war. (Thanks to Robert Frasconi.) Preorder Ron's great Manifesto here....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 11:38 AM
They'll be available here after 7:00pm Texas time, though there may be exit polls too, for one of the two congressional primaries the MSM care about (Kuchinich being the other). Thanks to Alan Turin....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 10:51 AM
Today is, of course, voting day in the presidential primaries in Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Texas. It is also, far more importantly, primary day in Texas congressional district 14, with neocon Chris Peden--aided by the MSM and the other...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 4, 2008 08:33 AM
Writes Jim McElroy: "Saturday night on Fox News Watch, Jane Hall from American University said, 'Ron Paul has more support among young voters and is getting zero coverage; and he's treated like a gnat at the debates he's been allowed...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 3, 2008 09:44 AM
The liberal Democatic Huffington Post tracks all the candidates' horoscopes, including Leo Ron Paul's....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 3, 2008 08:22 AM
Writes Brad Funkhouser: "The GOP shrinks to rump party status as the sane flee the Imperial Party in droves."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 2, 2008 10:50 AM
We all eagerly anticipate Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. Being released at close to the same time is Bill Kauffman's Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle American Anti-Imperialism. How can that not be...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 2, 2008 10:23 AM
And the government's murder and jailing of peaceful pot smokers. An interview with NORML....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 2, 2008 09:22 AM
Writes Jenny Hoff of KXAN about Ron Paul: "Despite the relative impossibility (unless something big goes down before the national convention) of being the Republican nominee for president, Congressman Ron Paul still managed to draw thousands to his rally in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 2, 2008 09:10 AM
"To uphold the constitution." See Jessica Bernier's endorsement of Ron in the Burlington, Vermont, Free Press....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 2, 2008 08:22 AM
Thanks to Brad Funkhouser for the poll....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 1, 2008 09:01 PM
Amazon.com has lowered the price of The Revolution: A Manifesto to $14.28, a 32% discount. Preorder this handbook of the Ron Paul Freedom Movement now and help raise its Amazon ranking, now at 167. By the way, if Amazon lowers...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 1, 2008 07:50 PM
After a long period of inactivity, I posted a little something at Huffpo. The media and public awareness turnaround is already happening because of Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, and the multitudinous forms of the r3VOLution. I hope I can continue...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 1, 2008 12:50 PM
Ralph Nader was interviewed on one of the cable "news" channels last night. He has been a very hot media story ever since he entered the presidential race, and why not? Unlike Ron Paul, Nader poses no real threat to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 1, 2008 12:34 PM
As usual, Glenn has done great work in exposing the hate-filled McCainite Rev. John Hagee, whom John McCain has praised in return, and here is more. Thanks to Ralph Raico, who notes that it also "mentions the latest TNR smear...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on March 1, 2008 09:40 AM
Says Chris Peden: "Republicans Voting in the Democrat Primary: Don't do it!! We have been getting reports that Republicans are voting in the Democrat primary for Hillary. The thought being that polls show that McCain can beat Hillary, but can't...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 29, 2008 04:18 PM
Here, as usual, the warmongering, big-government neocon portrays himself as, in effect, a Ron Paulian....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 29, 2008 02:59 PM
The anti-Paul Chris Benzion questions the reliability of the PPP poll, but atill thinka Ron will win....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 29, 2008 01:10 PM
Today is Murray Sabrin's Money Bomb. I cannot think of a candidate more fit to carry on Ron Paul's message of limited government, liberty, and peace. Here is some information on the great Ron Paul-endorsed Republican....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 29, 2008 12:37 PM
Ron Paul has a letter today in the War Street Journal: "I was delighted to read in Judy Shelton's op-ed, 'Security and the Falling Dollar' (Feb. 15), that at long last the security implications of the dollar's collapse have made...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 29, 2008 09:36 AM
February 29th is the birthday of the great person who is First Lady in the hearts of all Ron Paul revolutionaries. Here Carol writes about her husband and their life together....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 29, 2008 09:22 AM
Against the great Fed counterfeiting machine and its chief operator, Ben Bernanke. Here Ron is interviewed on monetary policy by FOX Business....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 28, 2008 09:47 PM
Okay, I'll admit it: I'm selfish like nobody's business. I have a personal reason not to like the prospects of Obama, which, of course, I will not express at the voting booth, but which, nevertheless, makes it hard for me...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 28, 2008 06:50 PM
Writes Tudor Smirna: "Greetings from Romania, and long live the Ron Paul revolution! "In response to the funny ballet blog, let me tell you that I had an encounter with the Romanian traffic police today and can testify to the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 28, 2008 04:05 PM
Thanks to Eric Garris for these results, from Public Policy Polling. According to PPP, Peden is a deer on the hood of Ron's pickup truck. The same firm, btw, concluded that leftwing antiwar congressman Dennis Kucinich will also beat his...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 28, 2008 11:42 AM
Due to the demand (unintentionally stoked by this site when I blogged it prematurely), Aimee Allen--singer, songwriter, producer, director--has now YouTubed her spectacular music video on Ron Paul and his revolution....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 28, 2008 08:53 AM
As the obituaries start to roll in, I'm sure there's not much I can say about the man's life that won't be said in the next few days. (I eagerly await David Gordon's review.) Nor will I insult Buckley as...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 27, 2008 06:00 PM
Or is that faint praise for Ron Paul (YouTube) in this congressional gathering? In any event, it is great to see Ron teach basic economics (and morality) to the lying chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Thanks to Dustin Anderson.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 27, 2008 01:48 PM
Here is Ron's opening statement (YouTube) during the Bernanke hearings. He is the only one, as usual, who speaks truth to power. As Ron argues in his books, central banking is an economic, political, and moral evil. One reason the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 27, 2008 12:30 PM
Is Ron coasting to victory over his creepy neocon opponent for the Republican nomination in Texas's 14th district? Many people think that, and from their lips to God's ear. But I'm a worrier, and I don't like some of things...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 26, 2008 04:57 PM
Writes Ron Paul: "What thrilling rallies we've just had in Texas. First there were the Students for Ron Paul at the University of Texas in Austin. The media said 4,000 came. Our people think there were more like 7,000. In...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 26, 2008 11:32 AM
Writes Michael W. Arnold: "I'm an American living in socialist Holland since I graduated from university about a year ago. Today, I saw an advertisement for the Belastingdienst, the Dutch IRS, which I just had to share. Ignoring the fact...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 26, 2008 08:37 AM
A network news channel was interviewing a Texas voter the other day. This man was very troubled by the current state of politics and thought it was time for a change. When he was asked about voting for Ron Paul,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 25, 2008 04:20 PM
Here is the four-part video of Ron and perhaps 7,000 students at the University of Texas, Austin. And note what inspires these great kids and all Ron Paulians--the pure, unadulterated message of liberty: no foreign wars, no Federal Reserve, no...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 25, 2008 11:42 AM
Check out this photo of Ron Paul's rally in Austin this weekend....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 25, 2008 09:36 AM
Ron Paul's success in building a big, enthusiastic grassroots movement brings with it a serious problem: the potential for phony Ron Paul Republicans who seek to take advantage of it. This was made clear to me when I read an...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 25, 2008 12:23 AM
In this article about Nader's entry into the race, Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer finds Nader irrelevant -- because he's been supplanted by Ron Paul. "There is unhappiness in the electorate," he says, "and Ron Paul's bid captures that anger."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 25, 2008 12:14 AM
Thanks to Mark Thornton for this video, old (well, January), but very neat....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 01:29 PM
Writes Rick Fisk: "My family went to see Dr. Paul speak yesterday at UT's main mall. What a crowd and what a speech! When we approached from Guadalupe, it seemed the entire city had become Ron Paul's own. There was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 12:35 PM
Now that I'd like to see! Writes Glenn Jacobs: "After reading the Galveston Daily News endorsement for Chris Peden, Ron Paul's congressional opponent, I am reminded of Thomas Paine's great quote: 'What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 12:28 PM
Writes Robert Grözinger: "By me. Some extracts are linked at the bottom of the page. The book can be ordered here. Or here."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 12:20 PM
Not McCain, though he fights him too, but Chris Peden, the neocons' choice to kick Ron out of Congress. He's also the chosen errand boy for the local rip-off pressure groups. Now I am not normally for mandatory testing, but...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 12:15 PM
Writes Brian Dunaway: "Greetings from the Texas 14th. I just voted for Ron Paul...twice! Eat you heart out! :)"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 12:00 PM
Another report on the enthusiastic rally and concert for at least 4,000 supporters at the University of Texas, Austin. As the Herald-Zeitung notes, "the exuberant crowd cheered throughout Paul's address whenever the candidate touched on his themes of bringing the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 11:57 AM
... as the Harley riders say. Fred Barnes, who competes with Kid Kristol for being wrong all of the time, now announces that McCain's the only Republican who can win, and aren't we lucky that no true conservative got the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 24, 2008 08:30 AM
Barack Obama vs. Ron Paul (and thanks to Mark Thornton)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 23, 2008 10:05 PM
He reiterates that he will not run as an independent nor as a third-party nominee in November, according to this report, but he once against demonstrates that he has called forth a vast movement for peace, freedom, and sound money,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 23, 2008 09:18 PM
At least in what they hope and scheme for, his defeat for Congress, says Joel Skousen....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 23, 2008 08:47 PM
Maybe I should trademark that phrase? Nah. But as more and more dairies go raw, that is, produce healthier milk, only Ron Paul has worked to stop the leviathan from suppressing this market development in favor of the big FDA-approved...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 23, 2008 12:25 PM
A great comment by Ron on one of John Maynard Keynes's central planning monstrosities, which rewards the rich and well-connected in the name of fighting poverty. Keynes hoped the World Bank, like the IMF and the Bretton Woods System, would...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 23, 2008 11:51 AM
So said our friend Murray Sabrin in a May 19, 1976 letter to the New York Times. Murray is running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. If you're in the New York City area next Friday (Feb. 29), join...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 23, 2008 07:30 AM
Justin Raimondo is still cheering for a third-party or independent run by Ron after his Republican primary race with a neocon who looks like Sean Hannity, but is even dumber....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 22, 2008 02:34 PM
A few days back, we all saw the Pajamas Media piece reporting that Paul is down double-digits to Chris Peden in the race for his congressional seat. Well, the Paul campaign has exposed the piece as yet another NeoCon smear...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 22, 2008 02:06 PM
Here's Murray Sabrin, Ron Paul-endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate, speaking to a Republican meeting in New Jersey. His main opponent, Anne Estabrook, read from notes as she addressed the small gathering. When asked for her views on the Second Amendment,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 22, 2008 02:05 PM
A decent article from the usually sarcastic Andrew Malcoln at the LA Times, who notes in passing that Ron drove Romney out of the race....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 21, 2008 08:15 AM
Ann Coulter explains vividly the fraud that McCain-Feingold perpetrated on the country, feigning "morality" while assuring big-media dominance of presidential campaign funding. Ironically, McCain's self-anointed reputation for being "above it all" is destroyed for good with today's NYT story recounting...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 21, 2008 08:11 AM
Some of his detractors say he's a protectionist, but of course he's not. In the video Lew posts, Ron Paul again reiterates his free trade principles concerning the evil embargo on Cuba and US sanctions as weapons of war. It...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 20, 2008 03:46 PM
Ron Paul has always advocated free trade with Cuba: no barriers, no subsidies, and complete freedom for Americans to buy Cuban goods, and American farmers and businessmen to export to Cuba. Ron also knows that free trade means exporting capitalism...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 20, 2008 03:30 PM
That has always been the Ron Paul philosophy on fighting the Federal Reserve, the warfare state, and the income tax, and it is his philosophy as a presidential candidate. See the CNN story and video....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 20, 2008 01:16 PM
LRC on Ron Paul's computer at 1:52 in this clip from CNN. (Thanks to LvM for the tip)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 08:45 PM
In a press release that has been widely distributed, U.S. Senate candidate (and LRC-columnist) Murray Sabrin, has struck political gold. By defining himself as the true limited government candidate against his (liberal) primary challenger, Anne Estabrook, Sabrin has begun to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 07:13 PM
I guess political ambition is one in which the "successful" people eat their own. Lately, as she has fallen behind Obama Barack, Hillary Clinton has decided to "go populist," which is a euphemism for appealing to base envy. It seems...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 07:00 PM
This is a Keynesian article, but it still has much good information. Need I mention the only presidential candidate who understands the central bank and its business cycles, and who knows how to build a sound prosperity for the future?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 05:04 PM
Two neocons--Roger Simon and town councilman Chris Peden--attack Ron in typical chickenhawk fashion. See Tom Woods's piece today on Ron's opponent, and thanks to Michael Giannone for reading the Pajamas Media, poor guy....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 04:11 PM
A friend writes: "Loved the article on Chris Peden. As a Houston native I've watched this guy for a while. He's as big of an opportunist as they come. That's how he went from praising Paul to attacking him in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 03:17 PM
Of course, the Bush regime refuses to lift its illegal and immoral anti-civilian trade embargo on Cuba, despite Fidel's resignation. Need I point out that among the bloodthirsty protectionists running for president, only Ron Paul advocates free trade with Cuba?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 09:58 AM
When Dick Cheney was interviewed by Tim Russert on Meet the Depressed on Sept. 16, 2001, the neocons had apparently not yet invented the fable that bin Laden attacked us because "he hates our freedoms." In this interview Cheney says...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 19, 2008 09:50 AM
Although I do think he's probably less of one than Hillary and McCain, and maybe less of one than Bush, here Obama is advocating war in Pakistan. Sure, he sounds less bad on foreign policy than McCain, now. And Bush...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 18, 2008 09:23 PM
A great truth-telling video from 1983 with Dom Armentano. (Thanks to Chad Parrish.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 18, 2008 04:29 PM
The man-who-would-be dictator and commander-in-chief of endless war thinks the real problem with the Republican party is the "Taft wing," i.e. Ron Paul. And McCain is right for once. Ron Paulism is the only opposition to McFascism in the GOP....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 18, 2008 02:26 PM
The LA Times's Andrew Malcolm predictably yucks it up over this effort to raise money for Ron, but it's just another indication of the incredible diversity of his support. (Thanks to Ralph Raico.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 18, 2008 11:44 AM
A conversation with Professor Rachel Douchant and Christen Mitchell. Note: Rachel is the sister of LRC's own Stephen W. Carson. Thanks to Sean for the YouTube....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 18, 2008 08:59 AM
Given this, Ken Sturzenacker wonders what funny business Ron Paul might have been subjected to....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 17, 2008 11:53 AM
Just before the Wisconsin primary, Erich Roden writes about Ron Paul in the Milwaukee Sentinel. (Thanks to Steve Bartin.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 16, 2008 06:19 PM
Obama, though he is no Ron Paul, is next, says Justin Raimondo....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 16, 2008 05:18 PM
About the Fed blowing up the housing bubble, and about the coming bankruptcy of government-sponsored private entities (i.e., fascist) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He tried to get the taxpayers off the hook. Now Fed and friends are bringing down...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 16, 2008 03:06 PM
Ron Paul was a big hit at Georgetown University, where he outdrew Condoleeza Rice....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 15, 2008 04:42 PM
A decent video from the NY Times of all places. (Thanks to Stuart Swirsky.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 15, 2008 03:24 PM
Neither sleet nor snow, especially snow, is stopping the Ron Paul supporters in Wisconsin. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 15, 2008 02:01 PM
According to the American Research Group, Ron is polling at 11% among likely Republican presidential primary voters (and 23% among Democrats and Independents!). (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 15, 2008 01:56 PM
Then so are the Founding Fathers. Ivan Eland on the great Jeffersonian statesman of our time....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 15, 2008 01:47 PM
The House Republicans did their usual song and dance to try to stop two neocons from being found in contempt of congress. Only Ron Paul, along with Walter Jones and Wayne Gilchrest, had the courage to put principle above party....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 15, 2008 08:58 AM
I forget exactly when it happened, but at some point I realized that conservatives are not actually pro-free market at all. Yes, they are not as overtly communistic and anti-private property as the left, but they do not truly grasp...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 07:26 PM
I threw together my earlier post on the subject in a hurry. Nicholas Del Medico wrote to correct my shorthand about what's going on with Romney's delegates: "He can't 'give' McCain his delegates. He can only ask that his delegates...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 06:02 PM
Writes John V. Walsh in Counterpunch: "I submit that the war parties, Democrat and Republican, very effectively use a divide and conquer tactic--and the antiwar forces play into it, usually quite eagerly. So when some on the left have good...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 02:12 PM
The antiwar movement within the US military helped end the war on Vietnam. So it is extremely encouraging to note that, according to opensecrets.org, the top three employers of contributors to the Ron Paul campaign are the U.S. Army, the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 11:24 AM
As usual, Anthony and Ryan are dead on. The modern "fight" against abortion is little more than a shell game, as the so-called Right-to-Life lobby has submarined everything that would have effectively overturned Roe. Here is the thing to keep...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 11:13 AM
According to the Freedom Democrats Blog, the nine Ron Paul Republicans running for Maryland Congressional seats did pretty well and won four out of the seven primary races: Joe Arminio, 2% in the Republican Primary in the Maryland 1st. Lost....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 08:22 AM
Abortion is a serious ethical issue. I have been pro-life most of my life. I am anti-state, so I don't favor jailing women and doctors as a solution, but I am not generally pro-abortion in any meaningful sense. I oppose...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 14, 2008 12:38 AM
On January 22--the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision--Ron Paul was the only presidential candidate who spoke at the March for Life in Washington DC. Huckabee did speak at a Right to Life rally in Atlanta, but said:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 13, 2008 09:10 PM
There will be a real debate on war and the Middle East, says Phil Weiss. That's why, adds Justin Raimondo, Obama is about to be smeared as a bigot. By no later than Monday, he predicts....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 13, 2008 03:01 PM
That's the 'buzz' since Paul announced that he will not seek the presidency on a third-party ticket: However, efforts to push a Barr candidacy were given new impetus last week when Rep. Ron Paul sent a letter to his supporters...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 13, 2008 09:28 AM
Huckabee got killed yesterday including in a state where he could have done well. He's at 4% in Wisconsin, the next state to vote. Huck, quit while you're ahead. You've had your fun at the country's expense. You paved the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 13, 2008 07:08 AM
Writes Mark Elam, Ron's congressional campaign manager: "The views counter on YouTube for our new Ron Paul video has been non-functional for 24 hours. They have been showing only 213 views from the first few minutes the video was up...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 11:49 PM
Thanks to Philip Weiss for reporting on a foreign slur. Ron is not "anti-Israel." He is pro-Israel. What Hoenlein means to say is that Ron will not violate his oath of office to send Israel or Egypt or any other...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 11:36 PM
"There once was a liar named Peden, Whose fibs we had better be heedin'. A neocons' tool, Promoting their rule, On March 4th we must do ballot weedin'." Thanks to Harry for that limerick, and thanks also to Jason Bennett...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 09:51 PM
Is one that isn't for Ron Paul, says Jennifer Reynolds....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 09:46 PM
Ron Paul has 4% in Virginia. Yikes! Copperheads everywhere are in mourning. Ron got 7.5% in Buffalo....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 06:38 PM
This one is in Austin, Texas, and thanks to RonPaulBillboards.com and Fernando Labastida....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 05:01 PM
For those interested, Trevor Lyman has organized a money-bomb for Murry Sabrin that will occur on February 29th. He's calling it a Scholar of Freedom money-bomb. Sabrin's campaign is turning out to be one of the most promising. Endorsed by...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 02:38 PM
Amazon has slashed the price for Ron Paul's upcoming book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, by 1/3, now selling for $14.28. Amazon is treating it like it is already on the New York Times Bestseller List, even though it has not...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 02:31 PM
A hard snowstorm hit Garrett County (Maryland) this morning, and when I drove to Route 40 Elementary School to vote, the storm had overtaken the ability of the plows to clear the road. Nonetheless, my trusty old 1993 Subaru Legacy...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 11:40 AM
Ron Paul will not, of course, support the candidate for McDictator....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 09:54 AM
Writes D. Saul Weiner: "As I am sure you know, there is a meme going around that we should refer to our president as the Commander-in-chief (CIC). When the presidential candidates were employing this term during the debates, Ron Paul...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 09:24 AM
. . . . They'd be Ron Paulians. But, alas, they are not. They are all sychophantic, bootlicking toadies for the Republican Party. Never was this fact made so clear than by the hilarious cover of the current Newsweek announcing...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 07:04 AM
Not to be overlooked is that Ron Paul invites us all -- absolutely everyone we can possibly get -- to take a stand in Washington on a date to be decided soon, but no later than 3-4 months from now....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 12:30 AM
Ron Paul will focus on his Congressional primary; after March 4 he will continue the Presidential campaign "as long as new people are coming into the campaign and the funds are there to run it."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 12, 2008 12:10 AM
But as L. Neil Smith says,these are the issues, immigration and abortion, that the badguys can always count on to divide—and to fatally weaken—the general freedom movement. I'm not saying they're not important, or that I don't have my own...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 02:26 PM
Sounds like a leader of invading space aliens. Instead it's a Houston TV station that has long hated Ron Paul. Here is yet another example, and catch the chosen photo at the bottom right....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 10:37 AM
Writes Mike: "I caught a bit of a TV show on surfing the other day. The imagery when the wave riders catch a big one is pure unadorned freedom. I was also struck by the effort they go through to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 09:32 AM
Not Warren, but his father Howard, who was a stalwart of the Old Right, and a favorite of Murray Rothbard's. Karen De Coster shows one reason why. BTW, Repubican Congressman Buffett--a proto-Ron Paul--was not only good on economics; he opposed...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 09:23 AM
Newsmax puts him on the cover, and thinks he will (indeed, has) changed the face of the GOP, and didn't it need a facelift! UPDATE from Jack Mayer: "Could they have picked a worse picture of Dr. Paul for the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 08:26 AM
The Washington State GOP finally resumes the vote count. Will Ron Paul move up? Will the count be honest? (Thanks to C.J. Watson.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 08:15 AM
...there would be a revolution against war taxes. That's one reason politicians (except Ron Paul!) love central banking and inflation. Watch the YouTube, and thanks to Joe Schembrie....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 11, 2008 07:42 AM
Writes Chris Rye: "Thought you'd like to see our Ron Paul billboard that just went up in Stevens Point, WI. Our American Liberty Coalition PAC raised the funds over a couple days to pay for it. It started Wednesday and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 11:50 PM
Ron Paul teen Cody Hauer of Owatonna, Minn., is fighting the government tickets, totalling $500, he has gotten for DWP--driving while Paulian. The 18-year-old has a Ron Paul decal on the rear window of his car....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 11:38 PM
...get out of Iraq. Seems the American people are Ron Paulians! (Thanks to Jay Henderson)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 10:22 PM
Lew: I don't think Ann Coulter's listening to Ron Paul will have much of an effect on her. Ron is known to use some three and four syllable words, which would be too much for her to digest....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 07:41 PM
In answer to an audience question at a YAF meeting, points out Burt Blumert, Ann Coulter said: "Ron Paul is very smart. So I don't want to talk to him too long for fear that he will convince me."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 06:24 PM
Today, there were two political rallies at the Civic Center in Lake Jackson, Texas--one held by Ron Paul's opponent for congress, neocon Chris Peden, and one held by Ron. Peden had about 50 supporters. Meanwhile, a plane from the Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 05:20 PM
Has no one noticed that the states in which Ron Paul has done the best - Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington - comprise the heart of traditional "populist" politics? Montana was the home of Jeanette Rankin - one of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 01:33 PM
From a longer article in the Houston Chronicle: "Paul's spokesman Jesse Benton said the national staff would likely be reduced from 150 to about 50, with those who worked in the Super Tuesday primaries in states such as California being...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 10:38 AM
Writes Mike: "Ron Paul’s decision to take a hiatus from the national campaign to defend his Texas congressional seat has caused much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in certain quarters of Ron Paul Nation. This is misplaced energy....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 10, 2008 10:14 AM
With Huckabee gaining enough delegates, McCain will not (mercifully) have a lock on becoming the Republican nominee. By September 1, when the Republican convention convenes, an economic tornado devastating the U.S. dollar and turning an inflationary recession into a depression...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 11:42 PM
The media first ignored, then disparaged, then once again ignored Ron Paul since January 1st. The media certified five candidates as contenders. Three are gone: Rudy, Fred and Mitt. Another, Huckster, was rejected in two states where he should have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 09:47 PM
For months the major media have ignored Ron Paul as much as possible, and they have especially done so for the past six weeks or so. When he announces he's not going to run as a third-party candidate, thus (to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 09:20 PM
Writes Robert Rehfeldt:"Regarding Ron's latest message: He's doing the right thing by ruling out a third party run, for several reasons. First, there is absolutely no chance for a third party to win in November. The system is rigged against...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 08:05 PM
From CNN: 37% of the vote in, Huck 27%, McCain 23%, Ron 21%. Error Notice: the earlier results showing Ron winning were from the Spokane TV station's local area, and not the whole state. Thanks to Connor Boyack....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 07:42 PM
Writes Charles Porter: "Just got back from doing my patriotic duty. Not too many people showed up in my little town of about 500 in Washington State. The results were: Huckabee 28 Paul 22 McCain 10 Romney 5 Thompson 1...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 04:58 PM
It seems counterintuitive to suggest as I have that those who wish to stop McCain (Hillary) should support Ron Paul and not Huckabee who has more delegates. Leaving ideology aside, let me give you some practical reasons for doing so....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 02:03 PM
Writes Mike: "Ron Paul Nation has been in a state of suspended animation since the results of the Super Tuesday vote were announced. We watched as a total news blackout by our lying media worked again to rob our man...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 11:04 AM
I'd rather see Hillary than McCain in the White House. The disturbing thing is socialized medicine. But, the system is already a socialized mess and Hillary will just help us blow it up faster. McCain means a war against Iran....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 9, 2008 09:32 AM
Writes Jason Rockwood: "I'm a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I follow emerging trends in media culture. I've been appalled at the media blackout of Ron Paul, and I decided I needed to do something to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 10:42 PM
Writes Dr.Paul: "Whoa! What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had. If I may quote Trotsky of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 09:36 PM
Writes Philip Weiss: "I admit that I've ignored the Ron Paul campaign. I love the fact that he talks about Israel and Palestine, but his economic libertarianism makes this big-government type leery. Then today I learned that Paul has hired...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 07:31 PM
From Third Party Watch's blog of yesterday's CPAC Conference: One really, really interesting thing I observed was the amount of applause Romney supporters gave Ron Paul. Other than on the foreign policy issue, they were cheering as loudly as the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 01:53 PM
Thanks to Tex for the intro and parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Ron Paul's astounding speech at Liberty University....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 01:52 PM
John Mashek of Neocon News & World Report is worried. Why, he wants to know, doesn't Ron go away (after endorsing one of the national socialists opposing him)? Why doesn't he play the game? Why doesn't he promote red-state fascism...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 01:45 PM
Thanks to Clyde Wilson for this message from one of his former grad students now teaching there: "I just got back from hearing and personally meeting Ron Paul. It was great! The 10,000 strong Liberty University student body showed hearty...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 01:40 PM
I wake up and find that the stand-up comic has decided that the best way to help his good friend John McCain and hurt Ron Paul (and help Hillary) is to stay in the race. Huckabee has received far fewer...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 8, 2008 08:47 AM
In a Survey USA poll of VA GOP voters, and thanks to Brad Funkhouser....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 10:54 PM
The presidential campaigns become increasingly amusing. With McCain and Huckabee the leading candidates on the Republican side, and Hillary and Obama leading the Democratic legions, the prospect of any of these four sitting atop the throne of state for four...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 09:51 PM
...Ron Paul carries on, says the Swamp political blog of the Baltimore Sun....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 09:40 PM
Writes Joseph Long: "Ron Paul will be speaking at my Alma Mater, Liberty University, during their chapel, or convocation, service tomorrow. Eventually it will be online. Even though the Falwells support Huckabee, don't think all bad about Liberty. It was...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 08:22 PM
Thanks to Alyssa Snyder for these videos of Ron Paul at CPAC: 1, 2, 3. UPDATE from Jive Dadson: "Here's the fine intro to Ron from Bob Barr."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 05:48 PM
Writes Ron Holland: "We are exhibiting at CPAC. Typical mostly conservative audience but Ron Paul just finished speaking and his speech and the reception from the audience was unbelieveable. With Romney pulling out and nothing left but McCain and Huckabee,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 04:26 PM
Actually, Al Pacino playing Vince Lombardi. Watch the YouTube. (And thanks to Jim Ostrowski.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 04:22 PM
Writes Heidi Wyss: "Items like these two posts, 'Mike Holmes on Ron Paul's Political Future' and the link to this are why I make sure I check the LRC blog every day! I tend to agree Dr Paul has little...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 04:06 PM
Ron is knocking it out of the park at CPAC. GOOD FOR HIM!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 03:54 PM
Writes Minnesota Chris: "Apparently the fuel efficient $2500 Tata Nano from India, which will give far more people the ability to get around, is a BAD thing, if these idiots are to be believed. "On another note, there seems to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 03:09 PM
Lew, this is why I respectfully disagree with Holmes. Yes, it's great that he's been in the debates, and a single one-on-one debate with McCain would make it all worth it. But I very much doubt this will happen. Why...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 03:02 PM
Writes Texas CPA and libertarian political analyst Mike Holmes: "Here is my brief take on Ron Paul and the third party option. First, as we both know, third parties suck. Their leadership is poor generally and even the best of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 02:39 PM
Robert Pape joins Ron's board of foreign policy advisors, along with international trade scholar Leon Hadar, and defense and national security analyst Ivan Eland....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 02:23 PM
And then there were two, plus Ron Paul, the only anti-fascist candidate in either party....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 01:50 PM
National Review's Donald Luskin, the investment guy who just joined the Ron Paul campaign as an advisor, has now endorsed John McCain....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 01:10 PM
This summary of Ron Paul's difficulties in attracting more voter attention than he has is excellent; one of the best yet! I find Jim's explanations "Sixth" and "Ninth" to be at the core of the problem. I would add -...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 12:25 PM
Here are some quick thoughts. My optimism about Ron Paul was based on my view that he would start out with a base of about ten percent, the soft libertarian vote. In a sharply divided field with an extremely mediocre...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 10:10 AM
Writes H.C.: "After sifting through the results of California's primary, a phenomenon has occurred that can only be explained as a statistical miracle. "In California, a state larger and more diverse than many countries, each and every congressional district returned...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 7, 2008 12:11 AM
Writes Stephen Dolenc: "I am a sophomore at Virginia Tech. I had a message of hope I wanted to share with your readers in this time of disappointment brought on by the primary and caucus results. "I am convinced that...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 11:28 PM
Writes Kathryn Muratore: "The Baltimore GOP had a Super Tuesday party and straw poll. The R3volution turned out, despite 4 conflicting Ron Paul/GOP events in the area last night. One of the congressional candidates paid for a Ron Paul info...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 08:14 PM
...is the heart of Red-State Fascism. Consider last night's election returns. Ron Paul did poorly in Arizona and Utah for obvious reasons, and in California for reasons I don't understand. In much of the North and West he did quite...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 04:09 PM
Laurence Vance's theory confirmed: Writes CH- "You are correct, Americans LOVE war. No group of Americans love it more than Evangelical Christians (I’m a Southern Baptist myself). I have had church members, good Christian people mind you, email me video's...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 04:04 PM
Attending the caucuses here has confirmed what I've always suspected: The Libertarian Party is a complete waste of time and energy. The Libertarian primaries took place the other day apprently. However, given the fact that several other Paul supporters in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 03:19 PM
The Ron Paul campaign announced this morning that at least 42 national delegates spots have been won by Paul. Alaska: 3 Colorado: 4 Iowa: 4 Louisiana: 3 Maine: 3 Minnesota: 9 Nevada: 8 N. Dakota: 5 West Vir.: 3...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 02:45 PM
Ryan said that the election results prove that Americans absolutely love war. He is so right. I said the same thing after the Iowa and New Hampshire results. The results of Super Tuesday in the Bible Belt states confirms what...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 12:10 PM
Libertarians in California and Missouri went to the polls yesterday. Ron Paul was not on either ballot, but he appears to have won anyway. In California, there were 12 candidates on the Libertarian Party ballot. But write-in votes came in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 12:05 PM
My thoughts on Super Tuesday: 1. After all the delegates are allocated in California, McCain will have well over 700 delegates; he won all but two of the counties (lost by a hair to Romney in Fresno and Shasta), so...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 11:26 AM
Michael Reagan said last night that there were two kinds of Republicans: Reagan Republicans and Rockefeller Republicans. He is wrong. There are three kinds of Republicans. He omitted Ron Paul Republicans. Ron Paul Republicans, although in the minority, are the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 08:22 AM
My in-laws sent this great Ron Paul story they heard last night working the polls in Southeastern Connecticut: While we were standing outside of the polls with our Ron Paul signs in Stonington, CT, our neighbor, former Congressman Rob Simmons...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 07:30 AM
*Hillary wins again and will be the nominee. *On the Republican side, the revolving buyer's remorse continues. People do not like the three remaining candidates who have received media coverage in the last 35 days. The GOP is heading for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 6, 2008 12:35 AM
Well, I managed to convince myself to go to my precinct's caucus tonight, which is no small feat since I hate campaigns and elections like poison. I told myself that as a political science teacher, I should make it...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 10:40 PM
Ron Paul's best primary state tonight so far. Why? Because we are experts in what big government does to a state. And Ron did the best in the county most devastated by government, the Bronx (11%)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 09:36 PM
...out of the counties that vote for Ron Paul? (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser for the link.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 05:54 PM
Dr. Arthur Robinson, publisher of Access to Energy , writes: Ron Paul favors free enterprise because it is morally right and because it is Constitutionally required — not because it is more efficient and more productive. Ron Paul favors a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 03:14 PM
What good has the entire House of Representatives ever done for society (well, except for Ron Paul and a couple of others)? This collection of lowlifes steals our property to fund their mass murdering wars and other crimes. Oh, and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 02:24 PM
The media is reporting that Huckabee won all 18 delegates at the West Virginia state Republican convention, but... After Ron Paul's 10% showing on the first convention ballot, his name was dropped out of the running for ballot #2. The...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 01:55 PM
Writes Sabine Barnhart: "I am reading 'Light and Liberty' by Thomas Jefferson, and came across the following remark: “'I indulge a single hope only, that the choice of President may fall on one who will be a friend of peace,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 01:01 PM
Lew, indeed Ron Paul is at the top of the New York ballot. Moreover, the two spots below him are blank and the quitter Rudy is next. I can't bear to do my final Rudy Implosion Update as I might...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 11:21 AM
Writes Elizabeth Wright: "When I went to vote this morning, here in the Bronx, I was not sure if Ron Paul would be on the ballot. Well, not only was his name there, but it was at the TOP of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 10:39 AM
Thanks to Marc Guttman for asking me to post Ron's congressional "farewell address" from 1984, which he had read here, but which was not online. What a magnificent milestone in the Revolution....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 10:11 AM
The straw poll was meaningless, Ron Paul was a strong second place by winning 35% of the delegate spots. There are still 20% of the smaller townships that could hold caucuses by March 1. The delegates then meet at the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 09:35 AM
He beats Hillary's attendance from a few days earlier....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 09:30 AM
Young people see through the absurd lies about us coming from Cato, Reason, Steve Horwitz, and other beltway haters and losers. B.C. from Ursinus College writes: "I'm a college junior and an avid reader of LRC and Mises.org, and I...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 07:20 AM
Tom, the whole "pro-Confederate" thing is just laughable. They obviously know we're not "pro-Confederate" in any sense -- what is there to support in a government that (like the U.S. government at the time) condoned slavery, imposed a fiat currency,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 5, 2008 12:26 AM
Today the campaign announced the endorsement by seven members of the Montana State Legislature. State Senator Aubyn Curtiss of Fortine State Senator Jerry O' Neil of Columbia Falls State Representative Rick Jore of Ronan State Representative Roger Koopman of Bozeman...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 11:28 PM
Seattle's morning newspaper, the PI (Post Intelligencer) has an article today titled "Givers Here Like Paul, Obama." As the reporter speculates, Washington could be the first state where Ron Paul comes in first!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 09:35 PM
Regarding John Zmirak's reference to Pope Pius IX and the principles of freedom, it's interesting to note that Pius IX corresponded with Jefferson Davis during the War for Southern Independence, wishing him (and all Americans) a return to peace. Davis...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 02:41 PM
From the aristocratic Greek shipping magnate and brilliant writer, Taki Theodoracopulos, comes the funniest and most pointed Ron Paul endorsement of all. (Thanks to David Gordon.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 11:37 AM
John Zmirak does not accept the libertarian view of the state which, according to him, is "that every State in history has been a tyranny (except perhaps medieval Iceland)", nevertheless he comes around to a very compatible political program for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 10:49 AM
Obama is, like Hillary, a wholly owned subsidiary of the military-industrial complex. On the Republican side, McCain salivates for world war, and while Romney is not insane, he is prowar too. Huckabee is a junior McCain. Then there is the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 09:45 AM
Marc Scibilia's very neat one-man band tribute to the Ron Paul r3VOLution (and thanks to Blake Masters)....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 4, 2008 09:34 AM
Chris Rhoades sends this along: Check out what they did in the Tennessean today. Never mind that when Paul spoke here, he rallied 1600+ Tennesseans. Never mind that you see signs everywhere for Paul and none for any other candidate....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 10:19 PM
From the top Maine political site: Paul Brings New Faces to Maine Caucuses By Jessica Alaimo Networking among the who’s-who atmosphere of “The Maine Event” in Portland, where Republicans gathered after the caucus, were two high school students. Carrie Paul,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 08:00 PM
Only 3 points behind Huckabee: McCain: 46% Romney: 23% Huckabee 12% Ron Paul 9% Thanks to Brad Funkhouser....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 07:57 PM
This article by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media is spot on. Whatever you think of Ron Paul, you have to admit that the media are notoriously biased against him. The Fox News Channel unfairly excluded him from its January...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 07:56 PM
Congratulations to the Boston Meet-Up groups, which are placing this magnificent full-page ad in the Boston Globe, pointing out that only Ron, of all the candidates, has opposed the monstrous Iraq war. (Thanks to Bob Simmons.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 11:30 AM
Thanks to Murray Sabrin and his organization, Ron Paul won the Bergen County GOP Straw Poll in the heart of the Republican Establishment. What does this mean? It shows that not only Paul's message resonates with conservatives, but Sabrin's does...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 09:01 AM
Field Poll: "On the Republican side, John McCain has opened up an eight-point lead over Mitt Romney. McCain is now supported by 32% of likely voters in the GOP primary, compared to 24% for Romney. Another 13% are supporting Mike...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 3, 2008 09:00 AM
Here are the videos: (first three minutes have bad audio) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 10:58 PM
Ron Paul did a great job in the MTV/Myspace forum. Of course, some of his answers may have been too scholarly for the audience, which appeared to be populated mostly by the kind of people you'd expect to get their...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 06:03 PM
Writes Sarah Grable: "Joel Salatin, author of Everything I Want to Do is Illegal (among other farming books) has endorsed Ron Paul. He is well known among small farmers for grass-fed livestock production techniques."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 01:35 PM
Writes Stephanie Emmert: "Please watch the last debate before Super Tuesday, tonight on MTV from 6-7:30pm. It's called 'Closing Arguments, A Presidential Super Dialogue', with Democrats AND Republicans together! They will answer questions from audience members in MTV's New York...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 12:58 PM
So far. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 11:49 AM
The NY Times calls Vijay Rajwani's heroic quest to be a Queens delegate for Ron "quixotic," but it's a decent story from Jonathan P. Hicks, who didn't write the headline....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 11:38 AM
Juan Cole is sound on the bad Republican candidates and "Islamofascism," but he joins the neocon blackout by ignoring the one candidate in either party to oppose this evil, and to speak out against it, Ron Paul. Shame on you,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 10:52 AM
Another sign of the Greenspan-Bernanke Depression. Meanwhile, all the non-Ron Paul candidates want to wage more Mideast wars of aggression, spend more at home, and crank up the Fed's printing presses. (Thanks to Thomas Lombardi.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 09:46 AM
Despite the fact that Ron Paul is in 3rd place among Republican contenders, and this has occurred for the last 2 days, Intrade still places him 5th down in their listing. They still have Huckabee and Giuliani appearing ahead of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 09:32 AM
Writes Keith Hamburger: "I think the news is under-reporting the Ron Paul Denver rally turnout saying it was 1,600. I was at the rally last evening and the room had seating for 1,500. It was shoulder to shoulder, standing room...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 09:21 AM
The huge crowd in Denver is berserk for Ron Paul. UPDATE from Kevin Southwick: "There are 3 more videos. The viewer can access them here. It's a great speech, summing up the philosophy, the campaign, and the revolution."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 2, 2008 01:26 AM
Ok, so Benito is out. Next target, McCain. Update: The Ron Paul supporters in the link above managed to generate positive media coverage for Ron Paul by behaving respectfully. On the flip side, LRC reader and Ron Paul supporter Jason...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 10:16 PM
Thanks to Jeff Schulman for discovering that Ron Paul has received more military donations than all his opponents combined. Paul: $286,764; 1349 donors McCain: $79,597; 413 donors Romney: $29,250; 140 donors Huckabee: $24,562; 94 donors Obama: $81,037; 466 donors Clinton:...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 09:12 PM
Writes Jeffrey Wolf for the AP: "Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Friday his three remaining GOP opponents are making a mistake trying to write him off while he continues to draw huge crowds and raise millions of dollars on...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 08:43 PM
Maybe the Ron Paul campaign is reading this! These guys want a Ron Paul interview on the Number One rated Morning Radio Show in Seattle. Listen to the YouTube. Update: He's getting mad, now....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 08:22 PM
Ron Paul explains the facts of foreign policy to neocon Laura Ingraham. What fun! (Thanks to Mark Filhiol.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 07:20 PM
What else can we conclude when they vote with their wallets for the only candidate who promises to bring them home? From Q4 FEC reports: Total Military Member Donations to McCain, Romney and Huckabee Donations Combined: 732 Ron Paul Total...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 04:38 PM
In case you haven't heard, the people who pledged on RonPaulBookBomb.com, which just launched yesterday, have moved Dr. Paul to the #4 position on Amazon.com's Bestsellers list.Congratulations to everyone who has participated so far! I expect that it will continue...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 02:53 PM
The NY Times attacks Ron Paul for having investment guy Peter Schiff for an economic advisor, because Peter's father is the famous tax resister, Irwin. Now, while I like Irwin very much, and consider him a political prisoner, I do...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 02:27 PM
Here is what the American Conservative has to say: “Only one candidate has put forth a diagnosis of America’s current ills and has a vision to turn America off its misguided course.” “By speaking about the benefits of smaller government...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 01:45 PM
ABC News facebook page asks, "Regardless of whether you would vote for him, do you think Ron Paul would be a good or bad President?"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 01:40 PM
At LRC we're well aware of Reagan's manifest failures to live up to his rhetoric while in office, but this is still a worthwhile comparison of his stated positions and those of Ron Paul. It might be a good one...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 10:25 AM
Staying power and a war chest count. In the Intrade market, Ron Paul is at this moment in 3rd place behind McCain and Romney. Huckabee, Giuliani, and Thompson are goners, of course....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 10:19 AM
Lew, if only the Rothbardian Democratic Reforms had been enacted! If there were a $100 poll tax, and you had to write (not merely select) the name of your preferred candidate, is there any question that Ron Paul would win...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 09:29 AM
By Human Events editor Terry Jeffrey, in the context of an argument over McCain. See the YouTube, and thanks to Travis Holte....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 09:05 AM
Writes Jim Brunner in the Seattle Times: "Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul brought his anti-war, anti-tax message to Seattle on Thursday, delighting a youthful throng of devotees with calls to "obey the Constitution" and drastically pare back the power of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 08:56 AM
Ron Paul dominates 4th-quarter fundraising, beating McCain, Romney, ex-Thompson, ex-Giuliani, and, of course, McCain's stalking horse, Huckabee, by a "Texas mile." (Thanks to Dennis Lubahn.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 08:49 AM
Ron Paul's new book can change American history. Watch the YouTube, and preorder The Revolution: A Manifesto. Already, we've driven it to #5 on Amazon; Let's have it debut as #1 on the NY Times bestseller list. Bother a neocon,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on February 1, 2008 08:40 AM
Starts at midnight Eastern Time!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 10:20 PM
You did it, congratulations! The people who pledged at RonPaulBookBomb.com today have caused Ron Paul's new Book, The Revolution: A Manifesto to rise to the Top 100 Bestsellers. It is now beating out both Obama and Colbert. This is just...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 02:51 PM
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Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 02:16 PM
This is marvelously written: Why I Support Ron Paul Posted January 30, 2008 | 06:02 PM (EST) I'd been walking around sharing the phrase "fire it up" for about three weeks, borrowing glittery talking points about the exciting race between...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 11:56 AM
It would be interesting to know how often the Big Government Republicans on stage with Ron Paul last night used the words "cut spending" or "cut taxes." Of course it's all lies - only Ron Paul has an actual plan...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 11:42 AM
Today's Insider Advantage poll gave Ron Paul 9% in Tennessee. Tennessee is an open primary. Insider Advantage first asked respondents in which party primary they planned on voting. Ron Paul gets 27.7% of Democrats, 18.2% of Independents, and only 6.2%...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 11:27 AM
Murray Sabrin, Ron Paul Republican for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, will speak on Ron Paul's behalf at the Bergen County GOP straw poll this Saturday. He's also planning a Super Tuesday party at his campaign HQ. Murray's fundraising continues...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 11:15 AM
The Derb puts the smackdown on Kathryn Jean Lopez over at NRO for whining about McCain's lack of conservatism. It failed to persuade her, however, as she continued to whine about the presence of Ron Paul (and Mike Huckabee) during...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 11:13 AM
This morning's Rasmussen poll that gave Ron Paul 10%, had some very good numbers for the future. (Unfortunately, these numbers are only available to subscribers.) Ron Paul gets 27% of GOP voters age 18-29, and 19% of those 30-39. Other...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 10:51 AM
Good for Newsweek political blogger Andrew Romano, who--commenting on the debate--notes that "Ron Paul was the only one who sounded like a person instead of a politician--no small feat for a presidential candidate." Mr. Romano also writes: "My favorite moment...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 10:18 AM
Writes Ross Mohan: "This morning, during 'Up with Nader, Out with Edwards' on Democracy Now, Edward's former campaign manager former Michigan Rep. (D) David Bonior refuses repeatedly to support Ralph's exploratory run for office, but does blurt out '..at least...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 10:11 AM
A newspaper that actually lives up to its name endorses Ron Paul for the Colorado Republican caucuses (and Barack Obama for the Democratic ones). Thanks to Thomas Luongo....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 09:39 AM
The war, the Fed, the income tax, deficits, spending, the police state, and the empire. An after-debate interview on CNN. (Thanks to Minnesota Chris.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 09:07 AM
Watching last night's GOP debate for as long as I could stomach it, McCain stood out for his speech, demeanor, and body language. Words that came to mind describing him were: smug, sneering, arrogant know-it-all, boorish, discourteous, laugh-in-the-face-of-those-who-disagree, the world...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 08:52 AM
As Rudy dropped out, hoping to head the OVRA in McCain's social nationalist regime, he referred to McBomber as best qualified to be "commander in chief of the United States." This is a totalitarian concept, as Ron Paul points out,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 08:29 AM
Good show!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 07:49 AM
Just before the hystrical smear campaign against Ron Paul was commenced by the Cato/Reason crowd, a Cato executive was quoted as saying that a Ron Paul presidency would move the libertarian movement, and the country, in "the wrong direction." Tyler...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 07:36 AM
The rumors about Dr. Paul coming out with a new book have been confirmed by several online booksellers! RonPaulBookBomb.com has been created with the goal of making Dr. Paul's new book debut as a New York Times bestseller in addition to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 31, 2008 03:46 AM
Once, when our Ron was invited on the other Ron's Air Force One for a flight to Houston, Ron Paul commented on Reagan's watch, which was made from a $20 gold piece. "I wish we still had that monetary system,"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 10:09 PM
All of them, posted by some quick volunteer. Thanks to Minnesota Chris for sending this YouTube to me....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 10:00 PM
As someone who has contributed to each of these mass donation days, I just want to say that it is worth every penny to have Ron Paul up there telling the truth about the murderous American Empire, making the establishment...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 09:54 PM
LRC reader Joe Black clocked it: Total time, in minutes and seconds, that Dr. Paul got to speak tonight. Out of, roughly, 1 hour and 22 minutes of "debate." Anderson Cooper cut Dr. Paul short twice. Here is a break...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 09:29 PM
Writes Mike Martin: "Did McCain say in response to Ron that Ike didn't run on promising to get us out of Korea? Well, here's a transcript of one of his campaign ads: "'Announcer: Eisenhower answers America. "'Man: General, the Democrats...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 09:04 PM
Another great moment at the debate, when Ron Paul explains that the President shouldn't manage the economy. Note the smirks on the faces of Romney and McCain....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 08:46 PM
Ron Paul lets his opponents have it over the war and interventionism....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 08:29 PM
Writes Jason Bennett: "Romney and McCain can rambles for five, six, seven minutes per question. Ron Paul gets stuck getting two sentences and then cut off. "If possible, he might be getting even less time to talk than when there...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 07:45 PM
Stephen Fairfax writes: "I would like to see Dr. Paul be a bit more aggressive. During a previous debate, when 5 war-mongering blowhards were pontificating about our health care system, I wanted him to seize the microphone and remind everyone...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 04:49 PM
I actually saw an AP story that referred to Bernanke's latest horrific rate cut as "inflationary."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 04:33 PM
Congratulations to Mark Thornton and the Auburn and Opelika, Al., Meetup Groups, which are placing this ad in the local newspaper....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 04:09 PM
There's been a venue change: my talk on Ron Paul tomorrow night at 6:00pm at Auburn University will be in Thach 112....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 03:46 PM
Ron has the greatest grassroots supporters ever. Take a look, for example, at this fantabulous YouTube! (Thanks to Justin Ptak.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 12:48 PM
Thanks to Manny Grossman of the Riverdale Press for letting me know about this very interesting poem by Frankline Gillette!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 12:24 PM
At least some of them; the rest show forth the boring uselessness (at best) of the Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Bush conservative movement. (Thanks to Roger McCaffrey.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 12:16 PM
The other candidates, Republican and Democratic, are advocates of expanding our bloated state, as the National Taxpayers Union says. (Thanks to Jeff Schulman.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 10:44 AM
Once again, a local FOX station proves far better than national FOX. See the YouTube of this interview from KCPQ in Seattle, and note the intro. (Thanks to Norma Willock.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 10:11 AM
Writes Wally Edge in PolitickerME.com: "Republican insiders are quietly sounding the alarm across the State at the prospect of a Congressman Ron Paul win at the Republican caucuses to be held this weekend. Romney and McCain supporters and operatives are...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 09:21 AM
Of course, Ron opposed the Bush administration's latest police-state powergrab. He said: "Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to the extension of the Protect America Act of 2007 because the underlying legislation violates the US Constitution. "The misnamed Protect America...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 09:12 AM
We all remember the story of the tortoise and the hare. Ron Paul, steady, hardworking, consistent, and principled, keeps going. Last night in Florida he got the most votes he has gotten so far. He is already advertising in Arkansas,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 08:41 AM
In his speech last night, Giuliani mentioned what fine men all the other candidates were. I thought he was going to omit Ron Paul, but he mentioned him last after briefly hesitating. Then Rudy acknowledged that Ron Paul won all...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 30, 2008 07:16 AM
I'll be speaking about Ron Paul this Thursday at 6:00pm at the Foy Student Union, Auburn University....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 11:57 PM
Ron Paul should ignore the two bystanders and hammer McCain on the economy (and all else). Time to go for the jugular! McCain is the Sgt Schultz of economics: "I know nothing!"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 10:46 PM
Wow! What a night. Chaos and clarity battled tonight. Clarity won and I for one am very happy about it. Now we get the one-on-one scenario I laid out a few weeks ago but which was delayed by Romney's victory...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 09:55 PM
Of course, NR ignores Ron Paul like the rest of the media. (THanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 04:55 PM
One might almost say, of course. Ron Paul has been endorsed by the great Arlo Guthrie. Says Arlo: “I love this guy. Dr. Paul is the only candidate I know of who would have signed the Constitution of The United...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 04:36 PM
to Ron Paul! (Thanks to all those who sent this to me.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 04:18 PM
Writes Amar Trivedi: "Interesting story on FOX's rough 2008 ahead. See especially Item C on Ron Paul! "In the past few months, I have started voting with my $$. First, Time magazine subscription was canceled (after Joe Klein' story), next...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 04:09 PM
There are many reasons why Ron Paul is a great hero, from his leadership against the recession-causing Fed to his opposition to income-tax theft. But this illustration, and thanks to David Kramer for sending it, sums up the most important...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 10:58 AM
It was OK for the MSM to cover Ron Paul's campaign as long as there was no voting taking place. After all, they have to have SOMETHING to talk and write about, and all the other candidates sing the same...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 10:50 AM
A famous journalist (and wonderful writer) for a famous print publication calls a friend to say that "You would not believe the pressure all across the media not to write about Ron Paul, unless it is something quirky. I am...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 09:23 AM
Of course, I care about Florida only as it affects the Revolution. Oddly enough, regardless of who wins tonight, there are positive ramifications for Ron Paul. If McCain wins, then Romney is toast and we can start the one-on-one against...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 08:04 AM
Faux News announced this morning that it was going to discuss "the youth vote in Florida." Naturally, anyone paying any attention at all to political reality over the past six months would conclude that Ron Paul should be mentioned in...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 29, 2008 07:39 AM
David Weigel, the opportunist who put his name on an article full of anecdotal, unsubstantiated lies from "unnamed" and unreliable "sources," says: "The Ron Paul campaign has captured much of the libertarian imagination and the controversies about his newsletters have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 09:49 PM
A great video....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 08:11 PM
Writes Patrick Johnson: "See Wendell Woodman: 'Gibberish on the front burner' in the Boston Metro today. Notice that it includes a link to your site. The Boston Metro is a free paper that is distributed around the metro Boston area....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 07:32 PM
Taxes are open government theft. As Ron Paul points out, Federal Reserver money creation is secret theft, which dilutes each existing dollar, redistributes wealth, and causes the business cycle. Ken Sturz writes about "surging prices for chocolate and beer. MSNBC...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 06:37 PM
Watch the great Murray Sabrin in New Jersey's Atlantic County, speaking on behalf of Ron Paul. As many of you know, incidentally, Murray is running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey. I've given him the maximum allowable amount, and I...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 04:29 PM
The Federal Reserve killed it, not that the NY Times Magazine would recognize that, although its cover is terrific. By the way, shrinking the hegemon is a prerequisite for allowing the peaceful, commercial republic of Ron Paul's vision to emerge....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 02:45 PM
Writes Garrett Sinclair: "Ron Paul should point out that the Government has raised the Inflation Tax into hyperdrive to fund the Iraq War. This is how they are paying for an (unpopular) war. They are taxing us using Inflation. "Point...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 02:09 PM
Writes S.C.: "I just got through reading your speech. It's amazing how the simple things in life resonate. I have a BS in Business Administration; including about 15 hours in economics and finance. I have been an institutional fixed income...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 02:02 PM
Foreclosurefish is blogging on Pillars of Prosperity, the new Ron Paul book which demonstrates that Ron has been right not only on taxes, spending, and monetary policy, but also on the housing bubble....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 12:31 PM
Of course, it takes a student newspaper to actually investigate and interview the people involved while the establishment MSM parrots party hack press releases. From the Louisiana State University's Daily Reveille: [Louisiana Field Director Andrew] Axsom said the complaint against...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 11:40 AM
"Our Nation Is in Trouble" (tv) "The Only One" (tv) "The Economy" (radio)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 11:17 AM
Writes James Dunavant: "On my way home from work in Nashville, I listened to 4 out of 5 callers on the local talk radio station say they had supported Fred and are now going to support Ron Paul."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 09:51 AM
They can't believe a woman would walk from Boca to Miami (about 35 miles) to support the "anti-welfare, anti-warfare" candidate....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 09:38 AM
Writes Sudha Shenoy: "An Arab news-site, from Lebanon, has the fairest, most objective report of Ron Paul's position that I've read anywhere. Can you imagine any _American_ newspaper publishing this??"...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 28, 2008 09:08 AM
"Everything for the State. Nothing against the State. Nothing outside the State," said Mussolini. In America, we are threatened by a fascist state, says sci-fi star Jerry Pournelle. That is why he likes Ron....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 05:46 PM
Yes, Anthony, but hearing Dubya talk makes me long for Clinton, Bill that is....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 05:26 PM
Anyone serious about foreign policy, civil liberties, and the war on drugs — issues on which the left is typically, if however marginally, better than the right (at least today) — has got to hand it to Ron Paul for...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 03:08 PM
If it weren't for Ron Paul, I would be paying less attention to the GOP primary, and thus would not realize just how horrible McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Giuliani are. I do not look forward to an America ruled by...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 02:43 PM
According to a GOP Party director: To date, says Maine Republican Party Executive Director Julie O'Brien, activity on behalf of the various GOP presidential hopefuls is relatively high. "I mean the phone is not stopping," she says. Supporters of former...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 02:04 PM
Funny how you have to look to the foreign press for articles like this: Jan 27, 2008 (LBO) – Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has slammed a US economic stimulus package based on tax-refunds and called for fiscal prudence and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 12:23 PM
Ron Paul does a video update on the campaign....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 27, 2008 11:59 AM
Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama: a .pdf flyer produced by some Illinois folks....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 04:36 PM
Ron Paul is scheduled to speak at CPAC on Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 in the Regency Ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. He will be introduced by Bob Barr of Liberty Strategies. This will be a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 03:47 PM
The Alabama Republican Assembly endorsed Ron Paul at their state convention today in Birmingham. The endorsement required a 2/3rd majority of registered delegates. Ron Paul received the 2/3rd on the first ballot. Mike Huckabee came in second. Convention chair Elaine...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 03:45 PM
Ron Paul has challenged the Louisiana GOP over its apparently crooked caucuses. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 03:43 PM
Yes, to the extent he can end government intervention, says Jennifer Reynolds....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 03:37 PM
Some of the beltwaytarians have taken to calling themselves "cosmopolitans" as a way of distinguishing themselves from us un-hip advocates of peace, freedom, limited government, and free enterprise. After a little head scratching and internet searching, I think I have...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 12:32 PM
I was watching Fox News this morning (why, I don't know) and they were complaining about the current slate of Republican "frontrunners" (i.e., the candidates that are actually talked about in the MSM) and how none of them have an...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 11:12 AM
My in-laws attended a straw poll in Middletown, CT. Here is their unofficial report of the results: First it should be noted that the straw poll combined an old fashioned ballot vote with an online component. Second, my father-in-law reports...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 08:50 AM
Thanks to Daniel Spaulding for pointing out this, where David Horowitz denounces Ron Paul, Justin Raimondo, and me as "anti-American rightists." See point 28. Mr. Horowitz likes the agitprop term "anti-American." By that, he does not mean someone who dislikes...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 07:54 AM
About three days before Iowa, Ron Paul essentially disappeared from the MSM coverage and has been gone ever since with rare exceptions. The media instead certified five men as legitimate contenders. However, in spite of being entirely written off by...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 26, 2008 07:22 AM
Here's a hilarious video based on the most entertaining part of last night's Republican debate - Ron Paul's question to John McCain, economics genius....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 08:00 PM
Ron Paul, that is, even though he is being increasingly ignored. My local paper, the Pensacola News Journal had a story this week about the upcoming Florida primary. Four Republican candidates were pictured--no Ron Paul. Although evangelical leader James Dobson...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 04:26 PM
Marc Caputo in the Miami Herald: "Ron Paul, the man with the sharp voice and even sharper mind, who signed autographs rock-star style." (Thanks to John Pankratz.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 02:37 PM
Ron Paul at the MSNBC Florida debate. Watch the YouTube. (Thanks to the Ciacs.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 02:06 PM
Of course not--that is, not to those who know this truth-telling intellectual-statesman who has, among all his other accomplishments, studied economics to a professional leval. A not all bad article, however. (Thanks to Christopher Witmer.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 01:57 PM
Rush Limbaugh says that he "can see possibly not supporting a Republican nominee" this year." Why? We "don't have a genuine, down-the-list conservative." Then he lists his top five criteria of what an ideal candidate should be: Okay, top five...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 12:17 PM
First Cal Thomas announces in one of his columns that Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who sounds like a Republican. And now this, from this morning's Baltimore Examiner: "Income redistribution is socialism no matter what other label is...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 08:12 AM
The extreme opposition to Ron Paul by South Carolina protestants is no surprise at all to me. These people have been "reconstructed" so many times over the past 140 year that they have embraced the Unitarian superstitions of their conquerers,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 08:03 AM
That, by itself, ought to be enough to disqualify him. Somehow the Times manages, in their endorsement, to discuss their reasons for opposing all the other GOP candidates still in the race except for one--odd, considering that they claim to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 25, 2008 07:56 AM
As usual: Total Times Romney: 21:11, during 13 times McCain: 16:00, during 13 times Giuliani: 13:50, during 11 times Huckabee: 12:11, during nine times Paul: 6:31, during six times...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 11:22 PM
MSNBC would like your opinion. So far, most people seem to think Ron won. UPDATE: There's a text poll as well! MSNBC Text vote to 622639 and enter a 4 in message body to vote for Ron Paul. If you...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 10:31 PM
Like Wes Baker, I too am sickened and embarrassed at Christian opposition to Ron Paul. The Protestant church is not only no friend of freedom, it is evil and stupid. Evil for rejecting Ron Paul because they love war, the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 09:10 PM
Lew: The GOP presidential race is not down to five candidates, but only two: one is the four-headed establishment Frankenstein monster known as Huckney McCainiani, and the other is Ron Paul. Of course, if Americans all agree to follow the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 08:55 PM
In his debate with the crooked pygmies, Ron Paul tells the truth about the economy and our crazed monetary, regulatory, spending, taxing, and imperial policies. Bring the boys home! Stop the wars! As Ron notes, that is the first step...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 08:18 PM
John McCain was here in Pensacola, FL, on Tuesday. He spoke to a crowd packed with--you guessed it--"veterans and war heroes." Since Pensacola is a big Navy town (it almost seems that everyone is either in the service or a...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 08:14 PM
They're desperately trying to pretend McCain won in Louisiana's caucus! The Ron Paul Revolution's organization and strengths has left them scrambling to build up an illusion of victory for their establishment candidate. Trusted sources tell us that the McCain people...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 07:42 PM
As well it ought to be, about a global inflationary recession, that central bank-caused crisis Keynesians used to say was impossible. Dr. Ron Paul, call your office....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 07:07 PM
This is a good move: Don Luskin Named Economic Advisor to the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 06:24 PM
Beating Rudy as usual: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Georgia finds Huckabee with 34% of the vote followed by McCain at 19%, Romney with 16%, Ron Paul with 12% and Rudy Giuliani in fifth with 11%....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 06:01 PM
Looks like the Ron Paul campaign has decided to push back on the "McCain Wins" LAGOP press release: Ron Paul Campaign to Louisiana GOP: Count All the Votes State Party Blunders Put Caucus Results in Question ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 04:14 PM
Will he endorse antiwar candidate Ron Paul?...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 03:37 PM
Nick, not to mention the fact that if those delegates are truly pro-life and pro-family in the broadest senses, they will vote for the only candidate who shares those sentiments, Ron Paul. There would be many more lives and families...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 02:30 PM
Writes Wes Baker: "I'll make this admission brief and direct. I've been following the sort of 'man on the street' accounts of the voters in SC and LA leading up to the two respective elections. My surveillance mostly comes from...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 02:28 PM
As Ron has taught for decades, the answer to our economic troubles is not more something-for-nothing, let alone even easier money in a recession caused by easy money, but taking an ax to the government. Here is his proposal: 1)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 01:36 PM
Wait a minute! Not so fast, Lew! We haven't given up hope for doing better than second just yet. There are still 650 provisional ballots being counted by the LAGOP and chances are high that many of them are Ron...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 01:33 PM
Ronald Reagan actually finished in first place in Louisiana, followed by McCain and Paul. The Reagan delegate slate, or the Pro-Life/Pro-Family delegate slate, won a majority of all delegates -- all of whom are uncommitted to any candidate. According to...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 01:27 PM
McCain appears to have won the most delegates, says the Louisiana Republican Party, but Ron is #2, Says the party chairman, Roger F. Villere, Jr.: "Supporters of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) appear to have captured the next highest number of...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 01:05 PM
Writes Rebecca Iocca, who works on an ocean liner: "While doing my morning excercises along with the guests, I always wear my Ron Paul rEVOLution t-shirt. Today, an elderly man made a comment about it, and then started to question...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 24, 2008 09:30 AM
Writes Matt Singh: "At 35:29 into the one hour Wisconsin Public Radio interview, David Frum warns of 'the false and dangerous economic solutions of people like Ron Paul' who are 'critics of free trade'. Hmmm, now why would a 'Great...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 23, 2008 08:04 PM
Ron Paul talks about the economy, what to do and what not to do, on the Glenn Beck radio show. (Thanks to Eric Langborgh.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 23, 2008 07:10 PM
Justin exposes a foreign libeler (and her domestic enablers) who is outraged that Ron Paul is allowed to express his non-interventionist foreign policy views in public....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 23, 2008 06:40 PM
Once again, the only candidate who knows economics--really knows it--explains what is wrong with the bipartisan Keynesianism of the Beltwayites. (Thanks to Sean.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 23, 2008 06:24 PM
What a thrill! This week, Ron Paul invited me down to Washington, DC so that we could videotape his endorsement of my candidacy for the United States Senate: I can't tell you how honored I am to have my friend...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 23, 2008 03:34 PM
From this post, one gets the sense that Reason's vision of libertarianism entails allowing transsexual prostitutes to freely roam the streets of your neighborhood at all hours. No doubt this tolerant policy will sell much better across the fruited plain...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 23, 2008 12:02 AM
A great event is coming up this Saturday in Houston, Texas. Walter Block, Robert Higgs and Lew Rockwell along with, possibly, Ron Paul will speak on Great Economic Myths. This is a great chance to get the Mises Institute experience...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 09:10 PM
I hate to say anything even indirectly in favor of the Huckster, but am I the only one to notice that the warmongering "ex"-Trotskyite (i.e., neocon) Christopher Hitchens sounds exactly like Cato, Reason, and the New Republic in their attacks...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 08:26 PM
Someone writes: "Isn't it ironic that stato and treason, hitherto little-known outside of libertarianism, now have much higher profiles: as the anti-Ron Paul think tank, and the anti-Ron Paul magazine?" Too bad the stato institute's man just dropped out....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 08:21 PM
Here's the video of Ron's endorsement, shot in D.C. this evening. Please give generously to Murray's campaign and support the Revolution!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 07:45 PM
Lew, thanks for pointing out this follow-up piece from Justin Raimondo's original knockout punch. Somebody send that man a box of Cuban cigars. Justin is spot-on when he says that the smear cowards are speechless. In fact, the second-string enabler...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 07:40 PM
Today on NPR's "All Things Considered," the host mentioned the four Republican candidates that will do battle in Florida on January 29. Then another host interviewed Guiliani. Ron Paul was not even considered even though he continually beats Guiliani....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 05:37 PM
Writes Brian Heyer: "We properly gave commentator-entertainer Jim Cramer grief for his summer tirade against the Fed sitting on its hands. Let us at least give Mr. Cramer credit for discerning the information-gap under which the central planners suffer: 'They...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 03:20 PM
What a great YouTube! (Thanks to Rolf Lindgren.) UPDATE: Obama did NOT vote against the Iraq war, He wasn't in the Senate yet, though he gave a speech against it....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 03:15 PM
Donald Luskin's pretty good piece at NRO had a headline saying that, of course, Ron Paul cannot win. Mr. Luskin responds to Andrew Borzone: "My editor wrote that headline without my knowledge or consent."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 03:04 PM
They assured us that Thompson, but not Ron Paul, was a contender. Ron Paul beat Fred Thompson in three of five states. Their credibility is ZERO....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 02:02 PM
Fred Thompson joins Tommy Thompson and Duncan Hunter in Defeatoland. That leaves the Wealthy Mormon, the Crazy Militarist, the Broke Baptist, and the Mooching Mussolini. Oh, and Ron Paul....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 01:35 PM
Here's a YouTube of Ron Paul's speech in New Orleans yesterday with this variation on the New Orleans Saints cheer: .... Paul was greeted with a familiar refrain from the crowd: "Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say gonna beat...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 01:26 PM
NRO Contributor Donald Luskin, who has endorsed Ron Paul, has a good article this morning on what he calls "Paulonomics": For many conservatives, what makes Paul seem like a nut is his absolute opposition to the war in Iraq and...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 01:00 PM
"A man named Ron Paul will be running for president in 2008. I urge you to support him. I predict he will lose some battles but the win the war, just like I did." --George Washington...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 12:34 PM
That's Ron Paul, says rocker Fred Badalli....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 12:32 PM
In regards to Huckabee and Guiliani being broke, a friend commented "maybe Ron Paul should give them a loan." Just think of the interest rate he could charge!...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 12:30 PM
Writes Elizabeth Higgs: "I took my kids yesterday across Lake Pontchartrain to the big easy to see Ron Paul speak at a rally at the Airport Hilton. The Paulines (my fave) were out in full force. There were a few...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 12:20 PM
A presidential candidate who tells the truth about economics and the Fed-caused global crisis: Ron Paul....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 11:59 AM
Today – the 35th anniversary of the Supremes' Roe v. Wade usurpation – Norma McCorvey ('Roe') has endorsed Ron Paul for president. Ms. McCorvey runs Crossing Over Ministry and is best known as 'Jane Roe'. She says: “Ron Paul states,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 10:34 AM
Even the neocons are wondering, and civil. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 10:23 AM
An Iraq vet explains why he supports Ron Paul....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 10:19 AM
Donald L. Luskin, chief investment officer for Trend Macrolytics, frequent guest on CNBC, and contributing editor to National Review Online, has endorsed Ron Paul for president. Said Luskin: “Ron Paul is the only candidate of any party with the courage...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 09:54 AM
Writes John Lavis: "With only one day's notice, 600 Who Dats show up to see Ron Paul yesterday afternoon. Here's the newspaper story, and here's the video."...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 08:47 AM
Yesterday's Ron Paul money bomb is the best kept secret on the web today. I can't even find a good number but I think $1.85 million was raised. In light of recent bad press and finishing fifth in South Carolina,...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 08:36 AM
So the Fed drops interest rates again, i.e. speeds up the printing presses. Think groceries and other goods are going up fast now? Clearly Bernanke, as he promised before ascending to the central banking pantheon, will try hyperinflation to save...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 08:16 AM
Only one candidate was able to raise significant money in honor of an opponent of aggressive war, militarism, and empire: Ron Paul on MLK Day. The total was $1.9 million. UPDATE: the actual total was $1,849,000....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 22, 2008 08:12 AM
McCain has a very soft 26 to Ron Paul's rock solid 6, according to Rasmussen. When NYer's find out about McCain's horrendous record, those numbers will change fast. That this would be the biggest upset of all time just makes...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 05:40 PM
Says Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico and supporter of Ron Paul: "I don't think Bill Richardson has got much to offer libertarians. He plays up the fact that he cuts taxes when, if you add up all the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 04:02 PM
John O'Sullivan at The Corner mulls over the possibility that GOP delegates will elect somebody who isn't currently in the field at a brokered national convention: Indeed, if the field remains crowded and three or more survivors arrive at the...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 03:59 PM
Word is that Norma Leah McCorvey, "Jane Roe" in Roe v. Wade and now a major pro-life activist, may endorse Ron Paul tomorrow. Update: ABC News is reporting that the endorsement is a 'go'....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 03:50 PM
We've been taken to task for our optimism but my observations about the presidential race are based mainly on facts. Here's another one. In this Florida poll, Ron Paul is only 15 points off the lead. 15 points can be...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 01:48 PM
Now that two polls released today show Rudy Giuliani a distant second in NY, a new Ron Paul group has formed to fight for those 87 delegates, Super Tuesday's single biggest prize. Update: Elizabeth Benjamin of the Daily News has...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 11:36 AM
Says the former Republican governor of New Mexico: “I am endorsing Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for president because of his commitment to less government, greater liberty, and lasting prosperity for America. We are at a point in this...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 11:23 AM
Today's 6-7% declines on foreign stock markets should cause the MSM to contemplate their broader, worldwide implications. The only presidential candidate who is addressing the issue of the systemic causes of the incipient recession/depression is Ron Paul. So, the MSM...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 11:08 AM
As you can see at RonPaulGraphs.com, today has already become the 3rd biggest fund-raising day for the Ron Paul campaign! And the day isn't done yet....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 10:50 AM
Writes Elizabeth Higgs: "Martin Luther King had a dream, and so do we. Our dream is to elect Ron Paul President, and in doing so freeing ourselves from overarching "tyrannical government. Without your help, we cannot turn that dream into...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 10:10 AM
Another ballot issue that will rear its head, if it becomes necessary if Paul does not win the Republican (and if he chooses to continue running), is the fight against "sore loser laws", laws passed in states to prevent primary...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 10:09 AM
Not quite, but the establishment business mag is questioning more counterfeiting and spending as the answer to the Federal Reserve's horrific recession. (Thanks to Billy Allred.)...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 09:46 AM
Ron Paul has to fight this battle even as a Republican....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 09:41 AM
Here's Ron's comment on money from his latest message on the Nevada caucuses: "Nevada, by the way, is known as the Silver State for a reason-its great mining industry produced the precious metal for the beautiful silver dollars minted at...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 21, 2008 08:41 AM
A group of Ron Paul supporters have drafted a very positive letter that they're trying to collect signatures for. From an email:Ron Paul has been the one to inspire Hope in all our hearts. And now our good doctor, who...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 20, 2008 08:06 PM
Writes Chris Lewis: "On the McLaughlin Group, McLaughlin just ran a great clip of The Doctor's economic prescription for the US [no Fed, no empire] and asked for commentary. This sent Zuckerman into a sputtering fit, Monica Crowley crowing about...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 20, 2008 01:27 PM
If nothing more comes from these elections, it is the clearest evidence anyone could ask for of the propagandizing, establishment-managed nature of the mainstream media. These people are so desperate that they must openly distort the facts of which even...
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 20, 2008 12:13 PM
Ron Paul did in Nevada what I erroneously predicted he would do in Iowa: double his poll number....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 20, 2008 10:30 AM
Thanks to Elizabeth Higgs for this chart from the paper of no-record....
Posted in LewRockwell.com Blog on January 20, 2008 10:26 AM
Ron Paul has pointed out that US intervention in the Middle East blocks peace, as Bush's l