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“Sometimes you have to shoot a guy two or three times before he dies,”

Weapons training and qualification overhauled

By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Monday May 5, 2008 11:39:57 EDT

FORT BENNING, Ga. — Trainers here are testing a new marksmanship qualification course that stresses shooting from behind cover, fixing jams and changing magazines — key skills all soldiers need in combat.

The pilot program is a dramatic shift from the Army’s standard qualification course, an outdated exercise that trains soldiers on how to pass a test rather than how to master their weapons, said Col. Casey Haskins, commander of 198th Infantry Brigade. The 198th, a one-station training unit responsible for Basic Combat and Infantry Training at Benning, is overseeing sweeping changes to Basic Rifle Marksmanship.

Currently in Initial Entry Training, BRM culminates with soldiers taking a timed test in which they fire 40 rounds of ammunition at 40 pop-up targets. Firing from Cold-War-era prone and foxhole positions, trainees must hit 23 to earn a passing score.

“It focuses on meeting the minimum standard — 23 out of 40. Not too good,” Haskins said. “People train to the test … We believe we need to teach people how to shoot.”

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War and the Morality of Americans

 

by Joseph Potter by Joseph Potter DIGG THIS Murray Rothbard began his book Man, Economy, and State with the fact that the first truth to be discovered about human action is that it can be undertaken only by an individual human actor. Only humans have human ends and can act to obtain those ends. This means that “states”, “collectives”, or other “groups” can do things only by the actions of individual humans. It is using a metaphor to say that the American military invaded Canada in 1812. There is nothing wrong with using the metaphor as long as we understand that it was really an invasion of many individual humans who are each responsible for their own actions.

EXECUTIVE OR IMPERIAL BRANCH?

By Ivan Eland

May 7, 2008
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More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — the man who gave us the administration’s horrifyingly narrow definition of torture. As difficult as it is to believe, the recently released memos are even scarier than the original torture memo.

The “Duke” and Democracy: On John Wayne

 
This doorway pose at the end was done as a tribute to Harry Carey Sr. The same doorway opened the film, the scene presents the visual motif of the framed doorway and threshold between the two worlds. The interior area in the cabin represents civilized values and the settled family. The brilliant, glaring, sunny outdoor area represents the savage and threatening land of the western frontier loner and the opposition between civilization (exemplified by homes, caves, and other domestic interiors) and the untamed frontier wilderness. Per the previously linked review.

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Dissent Magazine ^ | Winter 2008 | Charles Taylor

Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 15:31:25 by forkinsocket

ONE OF THE great joys of the movies is their ability to convince us that we know the people on screen. Even the varied performances of the most versatile stars are often not strong enough to prevail against the overarching image we’ve formed of them. When Joan Didion met John Wayne on the set of the 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder, she wrote of having the sense that his face was more familiar to her than her husband’s.

The Truth about Oil

 

The Truth about Oil

By Vasko Kohlmayer
FrontPageMagazine.com | 5/8/2008

A recent survey on the environment found that seventy percent of people worldwide think that the planet is running out oil. Only less than one quarter believe that there is enough of it to keep it as a primary source of energy. Petro pessimism runs especially high in the United States where a full two thirds think that the point of depletion is within sight.

Here are some hard facts.

Brutal Attack By Philadelphia Police

 

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Philly policemen were videotaped stomping, kicking and beating three men suspected to be involved in a nearby shooting.
An attorney representing the men called it a brutal attack by cops. He also said one of the men had a baseball-sized welt on his forehead, multiple scrapes and bruises, and was barely conscious.

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey who saw the video, said, “On the surface it certainly does not look good, regarding the amount of force that was used. But a full investigation is underway.”

The pictures that horrified America

 

Story Highlights David Hajdu’s “The Ten-Cent Plague” covers comics, teen rebellion The horror and crime comics of the ’40s and ’50s inflamed authorities A psychiatrist claimed that comics were linked to juvenile delinquency Efforts brought down comics for a time, but the rebellion lives on By Todd Leopold CNN (CNN) — World War II was over, but as the 1940s gave way to the 1950s, a new evil lurked in the land. It attracted a youthful audience — boys, mostly — who fell victim to its colorful images, dripping in red, and gave money to its purveyors. Authorities took notice. The United States had a new menace, they said, one whose name started with “c” and whose first syllable rhymed with “bomb.” Comic books. “The country was fixated on this,” said David Hajdu, author of the recently released “The Ten-Cent Plague” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a history of the era. These weren’t just any comic books, the ones filled with the derring-do of superheroes. These had names such as “Tales from the Crypt,” “Shock SuspenStories” and “Justice Traps the Guilty,” and they told stories of crime and horror. Their cover images included alluring women (often in low-cut outfits), decaying corpses and spooky, murky swamps.

Conservatives: Time to Abandon the Republican Ship

 Conservatives: Time to Abandon the Republican Ship
North Star Writers Group ^ | May 9, 2008 | David Karki

Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 08:02:52 by Invisigoth

Sen. John McCain as the Republican presidential candidate doing everything he can to show how liberal he is, to the point where it’s very difficult to find any significant difference between him and the two Democratic candidates.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi running roughshod over House appropriation rules, trade agreements signed in good faith, and doing everything else in her power to run out the clock on this year until, presumably, a newly inaugurated President Obama or Hillary can sign everything President Bush would veto.

And last, but certainly most, a Republican Party that has gone completely supine and offers no opposition whatsoever. More often than not, they’re joining in just to get a small slice of the spending pie.

The Essence of Liberty

 

The Essence of Liberty

A Condensed Version of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Prima. 352 pp. $24.95 

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Chapter 7: Waging War on Civilians

2. The Rules of War

An international convention met in Geneva in 1863 for the purpose of codifying the rules of warfare. During the previous century, nations had agreed that attacking defenseless towns, plundering and destroying civilian property and taking more than necessary to sustain an occupying army from the civilian population were all war crimes punishable by imprisonment or death. Furthermore, the only just war was a defensive war. Thus, Lincoln’s invasion of the South was a war crime.

The Academic General

 

by Charley Reese by Charley Reese DIGG THIS I mean no disrespect, but Gen. David Petraeus is overrated. I don’t for a second question his intelligence, patriotism or courage. He just has had the misfortune of coming along at a time when the Pentagon hands out generals’ stars and decorations like Mardi Gras beads. He has medals (commonly called a “fruit salad”) from his collarbone almost to his bellybutton, yet he has seen very, very little combat. If you read his military résumé, he has been mostly a desk jockey. Again, the medals aren’t his fault. The politicians in Washington, those in and those out of uniform, have cheapened them all by too generously handing them out for too little in the way of accomplishments.

“Why I Fear McCain….”

 

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ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging?

 

May 6, 2008 at 08:09:04 ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging? by Gustav Wynn     Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com

Florida police made public two notes handwritten by Deborah Jeane Palfrey this weekend, touching off debate on whether her hanging was in fact suicide or staged to look so. At least one reporter is claiming the DC Madam mentioned she’d kill herself before returning to prison, but another interviewer has aired recent audio of Palfrey warning that if she was found dead, it would be murder.

Initial reports of Palfrey’s death conclusively ruled it a suicide, a bit hasty considering the magnitude of the sensitive secrets she held. I first heard the news on an NPR broadcast Thursday afternoon which included an official’s soundbyte on how relatives are victimized in suicides, a strange generalization that pointed blame at Palfrey for hurting her own mother before any other details of the case were released. This statement was attached to the breaking news by an “imbedded pundit”, only raising suspicion of media manipulation in the earliest going.

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ILLEGALS FROM ‘SPECIAL INTEREST COUNTRIES’ FLOCKING TO NEW MEXICO

Michael Cutler
May 8, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

Two news articles recently appeared in their respective newspapers.

Both articles deal with the same news story but the difference in the way that the stories were written is significant.

The first article makes it clear that the aliens who attempted to procure driver’s licenses through fraud were from so-called “special interest countries,” that is to say, countries that are linked to terrorism. The second article describes these aliens as coming from “New Jersey!”

I know that New Jersey may seem to be an unusual state for folks from other parts of the country, but in point of fact, New Jersey is, in fact one of our nation’s 50 states. The illegal aliens did, obviously travel from New Jersey to New Mexico, but it is curious that the author of the second article attempted to ignore the fact that the individuals who attempted to obtain driver’s licenses through fraud were, illegal aliens.

THE NEW U.N. SHELL GAME

 By Jon Christian Ryter

May 7, 2008

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The UN’s World Food program announced on April 22 the onset of what the WFP director, Josette Sheehan, described as a global food crisis that will require $770 million in additional funding to ease the global food “crisis.” On May 1, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced that the World Food Program had only $18 million in cash-on-hand and was facing this new crisis with a shortfall it would not be able to overcome due to what Sheehan described as “…a silent tsunami in rising food prices that required a huge infusion of cash…” to meet the new demand in a world of rapidly escalating food prices. The only problem is, the WFP had a cash stockpile on hand of $1.22 billion—plus an additional $1.33 billion in current pledges from UN members.

THE ASCENDANCY OF THE SCIENTIFIC DICTATORSHIP Part 2

by Phillip D. Collins
April 27, 2008
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The Sirius Connection, Sociopolitical Utopianism, and Global Government

In Morals and Dogma, 33rd Degree Freemason Albert Pike bestows special honor upon Sirius, a heavenly body that ’still glitters in our Lodges as the Blazing Star’ (Pike, 486). Indeed, Sirius represents a foundational axiom of the Masonic Craft. Pike explains that the star is: ”an emblem of the Divine Truth, given by God to the first men, and preserved amid all the vicissitudes of ages in the traditions and teachings of Masonry’ (Pike, 136). As Pike continues, he reveals that Sirius has also held numerous other appellations: ‘The Blazing Star in our Lodges, we have already said, represent Sirius, Anubis, or Mercury, Guardian and Guide of Souls’ (Pike, 506).

EXECUTIVE OR IMPERIAL BRANCH?

By Ivan Eland

May 7, 2008
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More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — the man who gave us the administration’s horrifyingly narrow definition of torture. As difficult as it is to believe, the recently released memos are even scarier than the original torture memo.

Yoo boldly asserts that the president’s power during wartime is nearly unlimited. For example, he argues that Congress has no right to pass laws governing the interrogations of enemy combatants and the commander-in-chief can ignore such laws if passed, and can, without constraint, seize oceangoing ships.

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There is a crying need right now for radio ads over WLW and other major midwest stations warning that is there is a 2nd terrorist attack against the USA, either here or against our soldiers in the Middle East, it will be perpetrated by Michael Chertoff and his Jewish Supremist buddies who now run not alonly most of the US Government, and who also, of course, run the terrorist state using the name “Israel.”

If a major blast does not happen soon, in at least one major area of the country over PUBLIC radio, then I fear we are all going to wake up one day in the months ahead to hear that a major nuclear blast has killed ten thousand people in a major metropolitan area in the USA, or that there has been a massive attack on our soldier in the Mideast by “Iran.”

False Flag operations are how the worldwide organized Jewish Shadow Government and their junior partners in the Anglo-Secret Societies push mankind into needless wars in order to reach the evil goals of this Shadow government (Again, — I always mention this for those trying to break out of Big TV brainwashing - there are many individuals Jewish persons here in the USA and in Israel that oppose the destructive plans of this organized Jewish Shadow government.)

The Crucifixion of Jeremiah Wright

 

by A.D Lelong by A.D Lelong DIGG THIS I have spent my entire life cringing at the stupidity, cowardice, and self serving fraud of the intellectual establishment in this country. And now that we have 24 hour cable news, and now that talk radio has become BIG MEDIA (it used to be honest when there was no money in it) the intellectual level of political and social criticism in this republic aspires to Olympian heights of fatuity. Nothing is allowed in political discourse except the bromidic, the stupid, the superficial. Any attempt at truth or honesty is attacked as extreme, even insane, by a cowardly bunch of media pundits trying to score points with each other by ganging up on the victim like schoolyard bullies ganging up on the new kid. Just look at the way they turned Dr. Ron Paul into a doubleplus unperson.

The Sudden Emergence of Tom Paine

 

by Murray N. Rothbard by Murray N. Rothbard DIGG THIS This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty. Audiobook recordings of this four-volume history, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, are available for free download.     On Sale $120   $75 Audio: FREE At the beginning of 1776, New England was ready for independence. So were such leading radicals as Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry of Virginia, Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina, and army leaders such as George Washington and Charles Lee. But the bulk of the colonies and the Continental Congress were not. One of the main stumbling blocks to a commitment to independence was personal loyalty to the British crown. There has always been a political taboo of almost mystical force against attacking the head of state, and always the convenient though emasculating custom of attributing his sins to his evil or incompetent advisers. Such long-standing habits impeded a rational analysis of the deeds of King George III. Furthermore, the old and obsolete Whig ideal of virtual independence under a figurehead king of both Britain and America could only be shattered if the king were to be attacked personally.

Police Forces Dressing In Black To “Instill Fear” In Citizens

 Police Forces Dressing In Black To “Instill Fear” In Citizens
Psychological influence of uniforms cited by authorities

Steve Watson
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 April 28, 2008

Recent news that police in Massachusetts are to switch to black, military-style uniforms in an effort to appear more authoritative and aggressive highlights a more general move to militarize police in America and affect a “post 9/11″ psychology of fear.

Ron Paul’s Best Seller….

 

April 30, 2008

Paul No. 1 on Amazon.com

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Paul’s book is No. 1 on Amazon.com

(CNN) — Ron Paul’s loyal supporters helped him set campaign fundraising records and capture more delegates during his presidential run than some of his high-profile Republican rivals. They even managed to briefly shut down Nevada’s GOP convention earlier this month over a rules change controversy.

Military and Homeland Security Dictate Who Lives And Who Dies In A Pandemic….

 

Military and Homeland Security Dictate Who Lives And Who Dies In A Pandemic New report says doctors must allow elderly, weak to perish after ‘triggerevent’

‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ What It Really Means

 

By Michael Dan Jones

One of the most enduring traditional American hymns and patriotic songs is Julia Ward Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” It is a staple with many Christian church choirs and hardly a patriotic holiday passes without this song being sung and played at ceremonies nationwide. But is “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” truly appropriate for religious hymnals and patriotic ceremonies? Who was the author? What motivated and inspired her? What message was she trying to convey? What do the words mean? What meaning do they have for us today?

DO YOUR CHILDREN STUDY THE KORAN?

 By Derry Brownfield
May 4, 2008

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To be politically correct our children are being taught to be tolerant to everybody and everything, regardless of how bizarre it may seem to our American way of life. Public schools are having students learn passages form the Koran and study some of the laws handed down by Mohammed. Our children are taught that Islam is a religion of peace and Allah is just another name for the God of the Holy Bible.

In 1988, a British novelist, Salman Rushdie published a novel. “The Satanic Verses,” which led to protests from Muslims in several countries. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, called for Rushdie’s death. As a result he was forced to spend nearly a decade hiding from the public.

If you were watching the evening news this past December you are aware of the British school teacher that was sentenced to 40 lashes and a year in jail for allowing her students to name their teddy bear “Mohammed.” Islamic mobs demonstrated in the streets and called for her execution. In Saudi Arabia a gang raped a 19 year old girl and the victim received a sentence of 200 lashes for riding in the car with her rapists. In 2006, a 34-year old mother was forcibly raped and ultimately tried and convicted of adultery, and was ordered to be stoned to death.

QUAGMIRES, WACKY POLICIES ARE STRAINING THE ALL-VOLUNTEER MILITARY

By Ivan Eland

May 4, 2008
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Enmeshed in two military occupations that have turned into well-publicized quagmires, the Army and Marines are understandably having trouble enlisting new recruits. Their answer: vastly increase the number of convicted felons and other societal miscreants accepted into their ranks.

According to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, from 2006 to 2007 the Army more than doubled its felonious recruits and the Marine Corps increased its share by more than two-thirds. For example, some entrants had convictions for crimes of dishonesty—including burglary, robbery, and grand larceny—crimes of violence—such as aggravated assault, arson, and “terroristic” threats, including bomb threats—and sex crimes, such as rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, molestation, and indecent acts with a child. In addition, the two services dramatically increased their “conduct waivers” for people convicted of misdemeanors. Astonishingly, in fiscal year 2007, nearly one in five Army recruits were brought in under waivers for felonies and misdemeanors.

THE FOUR HORSEMEN APPROACH - FAMINE IS IN THE AIR

 By Greg Evensen

May 4, 2008

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Hyperbole is not something I engage in for shock value alone and it is definitely not something I enjoy contemplating while discussing our national state of affairs. However, it is becoming more and more commonplace in discussions that deal with the United States and its immediate future.

If, as casual readers of current events, you have become aware of the escalating sense of urgency, with the impending multiple world crises, then you are most likely comprehending the current history making events as they unfold. Wars and rumors of war, pestilence, mysterious shakings in the heavens, earthquakes, AND now the ravages of world-wide famine are occurring around us at this very moment. Does this announce the Biblical introduction of the “end times?” I cannot answer that. I am not qualified to assess those prophesized events from a theological perspective. I can tell you from a military frame of mind, a common sense evaluation and a law enforcement point of view, that these days are like riding on a wild cat’s ass, and you ain’t seen nothing yet.

A Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

 

by Lawrence S. Wittner by Lawrence S. Wittner DIGG THIS Although few people are aware of it, there has been considerable progress over the past decade toward a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons. For many years, there had been a substantial gap between the pledges to eliminate nuclear weapons made by the signatories to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968 and the reality of their behavior. To remedy this situation, in 1996 the New York-based Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy – the U.S. affiliate of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms – began to coordinate the drafting of a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention. Formulated along the lines of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which entered into force in 1997, this model nuclear convention was designed to serve as an international treaty that prohibits and eliminates nuclear weapons.

Bernanke’s Nightmare Chart

 

by Gary North by Gary North DIGG THIS In this report, I introduce you to an amazing chart. It is getting zero attention from the mainstream financial media. The information it conveys is at the heart of Bernanke’s looming problem. I have decided to post a link to this chart on a permanent basis in the “Free Materials” section of my website.

Cancel My Subscription

 

by Jeremy Parfitt by Jeremy Parfitt DIGG THIS Dear Reason: I have been a nearly continuous subscriber to Reason magazine for over twenty years. There was a time when, for a few days early in each month, I would arrive at home hoping that there was a “Reason” to check my mail box. You see, Reason magazine was a very important part of my life. I read every article, in every issue I received. In addition, I bought many gift subscriptions over the years, hoping to influence my family and my friends. I archived copies for future reference, and as a useful tool for debate and persuasion. Sadly, those times are gone. I am no longer excited by Reason, because Reason no longer presents an exciting and principled defense of “free minds and free markets”. I believe that Reason has become overly obsessed with its conception of itself as “the most influential libertarian publication in America”. This has led the editors at Reason to grant prominent and respectful space to authors promoting overtly statist and anti-libertarian viewpoints. At the same time, many writers at Reason act as if they are the sole arbiters of acceptable libertarian viewpoints. Consider the fact that Matt Welch chose to attack Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard in his first editorial as editor in chief at Reason. This decision, coupled with his willingness to misrepresent the views of Paul, Rockwell and Rothbard suggest that he is more interested in maintaining acceptable liberal credentials than in promoting a principled defense of libertarianism.

The Trouble WIth Judicial Restraint by Kevin R. C. Gutzman

 

by Kevin R. C. Gutzman by Kevin R. C. Gutzman DIGG THIS On Monday, April 28, the Supreme Court in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board allowed Indiana to continue to require voters to produce government ID before they vote. The reasoning of the plurality was notably non-constitutional. So, too, were some of the conservative endorsements of the Bush Court’s handiwork. The editors of National Review Online, in an editorial posted April 29, evaluated matters thus: The decision in Crawford … underscores the importance of nominating conservative justices who understand the importance of judicial restraint. More than half of the states have passed laws requiring the presentation of some form of identification in order to vote. It is easy to imagine a more activist court overturning those democratically enacted laws based on a few liberal groups’ spurious claims of democracy denied.

The Legions Arrayed Against Us - Does Our Weakness Matter?

 

by Robert Higgs by Robert Higgs DIGG THIS Thucydides tells us that “the strong do what they will, while the weak suffer what they must.” We recall these words even after 2,400 years because they have the ring of truth. And a hard truth it is, especially for those of us who cannot but regard ourselves as ensconced among the weak. As we look about, we see that the strong, who control the state, are rampaging in every jurisdiction and, sure enough, in countless ways the weak are suffering the consequences of these destructive rampages. Libertarians habitually indulge in wishful thinking. We live in a country where freedom is under relentless attack in ways too numerous even to categorize easily. Governments at every level seem determined to crush each remaining molecule of liberty, and, worst of all, most of the citizens readily accept, when they do not affirmatively demand, the suffocation of freedom wherever it dares to raise its head. Schumpeter foresaw our present situation with clear eyes when he wrote in his diary: “Humanity does not care for freedom. The mass of the people realize they are not up to it: what they want is being fed, led, amused, and above everything, drilled. But they do care for the phrase.” Ah, yes, “land of the free”―try to utter that phrase three times without breaking down in laughter or weeping. Yet libertarians are constantly seizing on some little tactical retreat by Leviathan or some little endorsement of liberty and describing it as the beginning of an imagined “revolution.”

Iron Man and the Merchants of Death

 

by Jeffrey A. Tucker DIGG THIS The phrase Merchants of Death takes center stage in the movie Iron Man, which is a spectacular expose of a subject that dominates the American economic landscape but about which Americans have very little knowledge. The phrase and the movie deal with the odd juxtaposition of capitalism and war as found in the weapons industry. Here we have innovations and efficiency of the type we associate with the private commercial sector but serving ends that are the very opposite of capitalism. The industry serves war, not peace, depends on coercion, not human volition, and profits from destruction, not creation.

Ron Paul, The Revolution, and Ending Abuses and Usurpations

 

by Michael Scheuer by Michael Scheuer DIGG THIS Congressman Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution, is an unusual presidential campaign book in that the candidate – Dr. Paul – is almost entirely absent. This is not to say that his presence is not felt; indeed, Dr. Paul is with the reader every step of the way and writes in a clear and very direct style. But the reader will find that Dr. Paul is not offering the audacity of hope or chanting change; he does not argue that it takes a village or having slept with a former president; and he surely does not hold up his military service as a reason why he should be elected. Instead, Dr. Paul politely, laconically, but frankly lays it on the line for his countrymen: America is in significant and potentially catastrophic trouble economically, financially, and militarily; the country’s political class is homogenous, gutless, and ill-educated; its two major parties do not offer a nickel’s worth of difference on important issues, especially foreign policy [pp. 2, 26, 163]; and our leaders are consciously negating parts of the Constitution, compromising America’s national sovereignty, and circumscribing the liberties of Americans. But then, astoundingly and correctly, Dr. Paul does not say “Only I can fix this mess” – as have Senators Clinton, Obama, and McCain – he says: “Only you, the American people, can fix this mess.” Dr. Paul confronts Americans with a reality that ought to both chill and inspire them.

Paul Campaign Never Ended, Spokesman Says

 Paul Campaign Never Ended, Spokesman Says

By Garance Franke-Ruta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 6, 2008; A08

As the Democratic presidential candidates held pre-primary rallies yesterday in Indiana and North Carolina, and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain spoke to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, another major-party presidential candidate continued his own quest for nomination, headlining a “Freedom Rally” on a Fort Wayne, Ind., university campus.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) told supporters in early March, through a Web video, that he knew he was no longer in the running for the presidency, and aides said his campaign would be “winding down.” But it turns out Paul never stopped running for president.

The Essence of Liberty A Condensed Version of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

 

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