January 2012
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Why SOPA doesn't really matter.
konacoco:
America did an excellent job today of raising awareness of SOPA and PIPA, two bills that would tear apart the most free place in the world—the internet. With the help of companies that stand to lose a lot from the passage of these bills (Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Reddit, etc.), we were able to sway the vote of at least 13 U.S. Senators who had previously stood in support of the...
October 2011
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“A Solyndra investor, in an e-mail sent to the White House in late 2009, asked...”
– E-Mails Reveal Early White House Worries Over Solyndra - NYTimes.com
The story isn’t really about corruption; it’s about incompetence, hubris, and the level of care one exhibits when spending other people’s money.
(via jeffmiller)
August 2011
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“There’s nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today… we could...”
– Ron Paul, on Foreign Policy (via trevisd00dz)
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Adam Morgan: Ron Paul v. Rick Santorum →
alexholzbach:
This back-and-forth took place on August 11th during the Fox News debate in Ames, Iowa.
Ron Paul: “Just think of how many nuclear weapons surround Iran. The Chinese are there. The Indians are there. The Pakistanis are there. The Israelis are there. The United States is…
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“If you’re in the backseat of a car with someone and you guys are removing your...”
– Sean Hannity
My posting will probably be sporadic for the next...
I moved to Hawaii yesterday and it’s looking like my schedule is going to be outrageous. I’ll try my best though.
July 2011
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“I mean, if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by...”
– Barack Obama on creating a health care mandate (February 5, 2008)
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7 Things Harry Potter can teach us about... →
imaurel:
insanityisfree:
loveofpaintball:
#1 Government is ineffective
In Prisoner of Azkaban, the government takes a crack down on Harry’s life because they think there’s a mass murderer after him. Just how effective is Fudge in keeping this thirteen-year-old boy in the home where he’s safe? If Sirius black had been any sort of real threat, Harry Potter would have been dead. When...
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“Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people...”
– Mike Prysner,
Iraq War Veteran
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The most exciting thing about a Ron Paul...
His ability to pick the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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Ron Paul was right, and the Fed audit proves it →
braincrave:
Audit: The Fed gave $16 trillion in emergency loans. Last year, the gross domestic product of the entire U.S. economy was $14.5 trillion. You do the math.
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I'm watching an interview with Ron Paul
weallwannaparty:
Part of his plan to cut spending in government and reduce the deficit is to completely eliminate the Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce, among others, because according to him they are unnecessary. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? Leaving off all the myriad issues there are with this, does he not realize that all these departments provide thousands of jobs?
Right-wingers keep...
In 2006, EVERY GOP Senator voted in favor of... →
hipsterlibertarian:
Only the handful of freshmen Senators can really claim a principled — or even practical — stance on this issue.
So much for not playing politics, huh?
20 Ways That The U.S. Economy Has Gotten Worse... →
#1. In January 2009, the official U.S. unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. Today it is 9.1 percent.
#2. When Barack Obama took office, the number of “long-term unemployed” in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number is up to 6.2 million.
#3. When Barack Obama first became president, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States was $1.83. Today it...
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Why Americans can't afford to eat healthy →
… lawmakers whose campaigns are underwritten by agribusinesses have used billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize those agribusinesses’ specific commodities (corn, soybeans, wheat, etc.) that are the key ingredients of unhealthy food. Not surprisingly, the subsidies have manufactured a price inequality that helps junk food undersell nutritious-but-unsubsidized foodstuffs like...
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BEST Constitutional Amendment EVER! →
combattant-de-la-liberte:
Proposed in 1916: all acts of war should be put to a national vote. Anyone voting yes had to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army. (source | hat tip: reddit)
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Woman Gropes TSA Agent's Breast at Security... →
PHOENIX - We hear a lot of complaints about security screeners groping airline passengers.
But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.
Court records show 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae grabbed the left breast of the female agent Thursday at the Terminal 4 checkpoint.
Police say she squeezed and twisted the...
Dem Congresswoman: GOP Wants To Prevent “Poor” And... →
nomosshere:
talkstraight:
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) said that every state governed by a Republican is attempting to prevent minorities, students, seniors, and the poor from voting by requiring individuals to present photo identification at the polls.
“I guess they don’t think that we understand that they’re trying to keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly...
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California's Highest-Paid State Employee Is a... →
laliberty:
The highest-paid state employee in California last year, a prison surgeon who took home $777,423, has a history of mental illness, was fired once for alleged incompetence and has not been allowed to treat an inmate for six years because medical supervisors don’t trust his clinical skills.
Some of my hard-earned money is forcibly taken from me and given to this man.
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“So the president would prevent seniors from getting their Social Security checks...”
– Neal Boortz
“History will record the legislative record of Ron Paul as an extraordinary one –...”
– Rand Paul
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Fan Who Caught Jeter's 3,000th Hit May Owe IRS... →
The tax man may be on the hunt for the super fan who caught Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit.
Christian Lopez, 23, recovered the prized ball his father fumbled after The Captain hammered it into their section of the stands in the third inning of the Yankees’ win over Tampa Bay on Saturday.
The Verizon salesman from Highland Mills, N.Y., gave the ball back to Jeter, whom he called an...
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GAO: Minimum wage law backfires in American Samoa →
laliberty:
According to a new report from the United States General Accountability Office (GAO), the 19 percent decline in employment in the workforce that American Samoa has experienced since 2008 was in large part the result of imposing minimum hourly wages across various industries. The island’s primary industry is tuna fish canning, with major employers Chicken of the Sea closing and...
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Ron Paul voted against spending $33,000 of...
Instead, he suggested that each member of Congress donate $100 of their own money.
Ron Paul’s ideas were just as much in the minority that day as they are any other. But why would they spend their own money when they could spend yours?
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“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species...”
– Abraham Lincoln,
December 18, 1840 to the Illinois House of Representatives
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Mitt Romney's top reported contributors...
joseph-bradfield:
onlyonet:
Goldman Sachs $234,275 Citigroup Inc $178,200 Merrill Lynch $173,025 Morgan Stanley $170,350 Lehman Brothers $144,100 UBS AG $123,850 Bain Capital $123,150 Bain & Co $121,475 Marriott International $121,150 Kirkland & Ellis $109,400 Compuware Corp $103,550 Credit Suisse Group $102,600 Huron Consulting $102,050 The Villages $102,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers...
laliberty:
Bradley Manning, American Hero
At great personal cost, Bradley Manning has given our foreign policy elite the public supervision it so badly needs.
Knowledge is powerful. The WikiLeaks disclosures have helped spark democratic revolutions and reforms across the Middle East, accomplishing what Operation Iraqi Freedom never could.
Bradley Manning has exposed the pathological...
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Oak Park Woman Faces 93-Days in Jail For Planting... →
OAK PARK, Mich. (WJBK) - “The price of organic food is kind of through the roof,” said Julie Bass.
So, why not grow your own? However, Bass’ garden is a little unique because it’s in her front yard.
“We thought it’d be really cool to do it so the neighbors could see. The kids love it. The kids from the neighborhood all come and help,” she said.
...
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If You Love Peace, Become a "Blue Republican"... →
The more-or-less global delight upon Obama’s election in 2008 followed largely from the hope that Americans had realized what a mistake they had made with Bush’s second term and were therefore voting against the egregious actions of the then Republican establishment.
When most Americans voted for “Hope” and “Change,” the above four objectives were at the...
Bachmann Pledges to Ban Pornography →
thegayrepublican:
thoseboringpolitics:
There’s not really so much to say about this. I’m at a lack of words, to be frank. The blatant unconstitutionality of this is really quite insane, and banning pornography is really only going to create another black market for this type of thing.
I am not a big fan of Porn, but I do not feel someone should ban an industry that creates revenue. If she...
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution...”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A very big thank you to all who are following this...
When it was created, I didn’t have high hopes, but I’ve already surpassed the number of people I thought would be interested in the message. Thank you all so much for your support, and I hope you’ll stick around as we get further into the 2012 election cycle!
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”- George Washington
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“Historically, revolutions are started by a select few, and are ignored by the...”
– Ron Paul
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I just sent the following to MSNBC as a correction...
To whom it may concern,
I come to you with a plea from the American people at large and I ask that you not skip over this message, as I suspect you will so many others. It’s come to my understanding that Ron Paul raised roughly $4.5 million in the second quarter, but was not included in a recent MSNBC graphic showing as much. While he should have been shown in second place, he was nowhere...
“To suggest that, in a free society where property is owned by the people, the...”
– Ron Paul, Liberty Defined
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