Sanity in an Insane World

Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:20 AM EST (AntiWar.com)

Right now, the anonymous donors to a political action committee, or PAC, can buy ads on behalf of – or against – a candidate, and spend unlimited amounts as long as there is no official connection between the PAC and any candidate.

politics, foreign-policy, newt-gingrich, israel-palestinian-conflict, sheldon-adelson

The Three Biggest Lies the Government Is Telling You

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:13 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

Government lies are legion. So many are its lies, that narrowing them down to three of the most important is a demanding task.

politics, war, federal-reserve, foreign-policy, national-debt, jessica-lynch, pat-tillman, government-propaganda

Accused war criminal Charles Taylor worked for CIA: report

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:03 AM EST (Raw Story)

Liberia’s Charles Taylor, the first African head of state to be prosecuted for war crimes by an international tribunal, used to work for the CIA, the Boston Globe newspaper reported this week. The report, based on information uncovered through a freedom of information r …

cia, politics, charles-taylor

The Miami Marlins Are The Worst Thing Ever

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:14 PM EST (SB Nation )

And they're not one of the nightclub acts you line up to see.

mlb, sports, miami-marlins

A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:16 AM EST (Future of Freedom Foundation )

Here’s the irony: The attacks on 9/11, as Ron Paul has explained many times, are comprehensible (though not justifiable) only as “blowback” from long years of violent U.S. intervention in the Arab world.

politics, foreign-policy, blowback, war-in-afghanistan, causes-of-terrorism

Ayatollah Santorum the Sanctimonious (ASS)

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:53 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

Santorum first claimed to have read an eighteenth-century dictionary that defined happiness as "to do the morally right thing." This is how the founding fathers defined happiness, he said.

politics, rick-santorum, personal-liberty, libertarians-vs-conservatives

Doing Your Own Thing

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:32 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

The idea of a society where people are free to "do their own thing" is an appealing one.

politics, non-agression-principal

Killing Dissent with War

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:23 AM EST (Future of Freedom Foundation)

What better way to rally people to the government than a war? Wouldn’t we expect many American dissidents, especially those in the Tea Party and Occupy movements, to immediately set aside their dissatisfaction with the U.S.

politics, war, foreign-policy

Next al-Qaeda Target: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:45 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

It seems obvious and undeniable that what Ron Paul says about the terrorists’ attacks suffered by the US are a direct result of American foreign policy, and its military presence in the Middle East.

politics, foreign-policy, ron-paul, causes-of-terrorism

Not all national defense is national defense

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:45 PM EST (Examiner)

How will our smaller forces operate in "multiple theatres," fighting simultaneous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, western Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Iran next? But these countries were bullied by the CIA for decades, creating a backlash that forced these aggressive pick-up wars on …

politics, foreign-policy, federal-budget, military-policy, military-spending, obama-administration

A Power Play in Congress – and How To Stop It

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:52 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

The Senate’s Protect IP Act, PIPA, and its House companion Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA, is now seeping through the congressional sewage system.

politics, first-amendment, corporatism, stop-online-piracy-act

From the Right To Resist the 'Duty To Submit'

Seeded on Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:32 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

Anne Dekins was a loud-mouthed party girl – or at least, that's what the arrest warrant suggested.

politics, civil-liberties, police-abuse

What If Elections Don't Matter?

Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:52 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

What if Democrats and Republicans were two wings of the same bird of prey?

politics, two-party-oligarchy, two-party-statism

RedState: Get Ron Paul Off the Stage

Seeded on Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:06 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

I’d say a better question than RedState’s is this: why do Rick Santorum rallies attract eight people, Gingrich town halls attract 45 silver-hairs, and Ron Paul rallies attract huge throngs of smart young kids who …

politics, libertarianism-vs-conservatism

The Return of the Chickenhawks

Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:35 PM EST (AntiWar.com)

What a joy to see Ron Paul take down Newt “Chickenhawk” Gingrich in front of millions of Americans. Slogging through fifteen Republican presidential debates was totally worth it just to witness this defining moment.

iran, politics, foreign-policy, newt-gingrich, ron-paul, conservative-chickenhawks

DOJ Urges Federal Court To Protect the Right to Record Police

Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:26 PM EST (The Agitator)

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has urged a federal court to side with a Howard County man in a lawsuit over his cellphone being seized by Baltimore police at the Preakness Stakes after he filmed officers making an arrest.

politics, justice-department, recording-of-police

The U.S. Military Will Bring Down America

Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:20 PM EST (Bullion Vault )

All empires must go away sometime. They are natural things. And nature puts a time bomb in everything she creates. The US empire is doomed. Just like all the others that went before it.

politics, military, foreign-policy

What does the Republican Party fear about Ron Paul's foreign policy?

Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 9:40 AM EST (Examiner)

For instance, utilize this hypothetical.

politics, foreign-policy, ron-paul, nonintervention

Promising to bring nearly all troops home, Paul pulls in campaign cash from military donors

Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 8:38 AM EST (The Washington Post)

An Army reservist who spoke up for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul while in uniform — and landed in trouble for it — is just one of the soldiers getting behind the Texas congressman’s campaign. Plenty of other troops simply send Paul some campaign …

elections, politics, foreign-policy, us-military, campaign-donations, ron-paul, 2012-republican-presidental-primary

Conservatism Is a Lie

Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 9:59 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

The American Right's position for the last sixty years at least has been: We will countenance socialism, so long as we get war and the police state.

mitt-romney, rick-santorum, libertarianism, conservatism, ron-paul, libertarians-vs-conservatives

Paul: Gingrich "chickened out" of military service

Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 9:34 AM EST (Raw Story)

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Wednesday said that a draft dodger like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had no business sending kids to war. In his speech following finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night, Gingrich had said that Paul’s &ldquo …

elections, politics, foreign-policy, newt-gingrich, ron-paul, 2012-republican-presidential-primary

Cop Types. . .

Seeded on Wed Jan 4, 2012 5:38 PM EST (LewRockwell.com)

Today, it is law enforcement that threatens harmless, morally (if not legally) innocent people with violence.

politics, police-abuse, government-abuse

Mark Levin Threatens to Work to Unseat Rand if Ron Paul Runs Third Party

Seeded on Tue Jan 3, 2012 8:12 PM EST (Independent Political Report)

“If Ron Paul decides that he is going to go third-party, which is detrimental to this nation, and pulls a million votes, which is relatively insignificant in the big scheme of things, I will do everything in my power to defeat his son in Kentucky.

politics, mark-levin, ron-paul, rand-paul, libertarians-vs-conservatives

Equality Before the Law Finally Achieved

Seeded on Tue Jan 3, 2012 6:30 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

In a perverse way then, we can now look upon the National Defense Authorization Act as a great equalizer for Americans of all ethnic, religious and language groups.

politics, statism, national-defense-authorization-act, authortarianism

Paul's libertarian message finds fans

Seeded on Mon Jan 2, 2012 11:58 AM EST (The Boston Globe)

Of course, Paul himself, running as a libertarian in Republican cloaking, has won election to Congress 12 times from his Texas district. And in recent decades, libertarian ideas have threaded into popular political thinking.

elections, politics, libertarianism, ron-paul, 2012-republican-presidential-primary

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Latest Comments

Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America
Fri Jan 27, 2012
- A vote for Newt is a vote for more debt and death
The Three Biggest Lies the Government Is Telling You
Fri Jan 27, 2012
- Government is not to be trusted only remotely tolerated
RedState: Get Ron Paul Off the Stage
Thu Jan 12, 2012
- I think Ed pretty much covered the reason.
Accused war criminal Charles Taylor worked for CIA: report
Mon Jan 23, 2012
- /facepalm
The Miami Marlins Are The Worst Thing Ever
Sun Jan 22, 2012
- House of Cards
A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire
Fri Jan 20, 2012
- The sad part is that most people rather use jingoistic slogans than actually take a good hard look at our disastrous foreign policy.
Ayatollah Santorum the Sanctimonious (ASS)
Fri Jan 20, 2012
- Conservatives don't want people to be left alone they want the government jackboot in your face just like the left does.
Next al-Qaeda Target: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wed Jan 18, 2012
- "They hate us for our freedoms" is nothing but a cheap cliche
What If Elections Don't Matter?
Fri Jan 13, 2012
- Pretty damn accurate on what really goes on
RedState: Get Ron Paul Off the Stage
Thu Jan 12, 2012
- Got to love when scumbags like Erick Erickson froth at the mouth over Dr. Paul

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Muslims to NYPD: 'Respect us, we will respect you'
Hundreds of Muslims prayed in a lower Manhattan park and marched to New York Police headquarters Friday to protest a decade of police infiltrating mosques and spying on Muslim neighborhoods.
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An Intrusion of Reality
Source: LewRockwell.com
But Mexico couldn't fight the narcos, because the United States was actually on the side of the traficantes.
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Ron Paul success scares establishment — RT
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The mainstream might not consider him a top-tier candidate but his fanbase knows the truth.
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