The Washington Times writes up the convention here, and even managed to get the word marijuana into the headline.
It took a quote from Tucker himself but the Tucker Carlson for President rumor has ended.
According to this report pro-Barr people outnumber others 2-1.  Maybe it will be a one ballot nomination process after all?
A much longer [...]

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Don’t forget that when talking about flip flops, you can also talk about John McCain.
This is still my favorite video of him… It’s a lot of fun to watch, replacing the words “Somalia” or “Lebanon” with “Iraq,” and then asking yourself what’s changed.

P.S. For those of you who think the answer to “what’s changed?” is [...]

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Over at the Americaon Conservative’s blog, RonPaulBlog.com writer Daniel McCarthy skewers the National Review for its editorial that basically says: “Pay no attention to Bob Barr who is running for President”:
NRO has an editorial up excoriating Bob Barr for changing his views on war, civil liberties, and drugs. But after two paragraphs of hitting Barr [...]

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Today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary (subscription only) includes the following articles in order. See if you think there is a connection between Ron Paul’s success and the GOP’s cashflow problems:
Being Ron Paul
The Libertarian Convention starts today in Denver, but the party’s real inspiration this year will be there only in spirit. [...]

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The first review of Steven Soderbergh’s (Solaris, The Good German, Oceans 11, 12, 13) newest movie Che largely pans the movie for lack of character development and, at times, poor cinematography.
My interest in the movie is more about how Che is portrayed. Is his brutality as the head of Fidel Castro’s secret police and [...]

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Stephen Dubner of the Freakonomics blog has this post regarding West Point cadets’ views of war:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.co…r-is/#more-789.
They struck me as pretty ridiculous so I posted this comment (which has yet to show up on the site):
Dubner states that “The 12 answers reflect the thoughtful, varied, and independent mindset that I have always encountered when dealing with [...]

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In my post earlier this week on the DiscoverScholars.org blog, I presented a rather Austrian perspective regarding the recent collapse of the student loan industry.
As I see it, the over-subsidization of Sallie Mae and more general market meddling by the federal government contributed significantly to the problems we’re now seeing of the loan market. [...]

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Patrick,
Admittedly, I don’t follow libertarian politics very closely, but I too find some of the recent developments within the party rather interesting.
For one, it will be interesting to see how the apparent agreement between Bob Barr and long-time conservative fundraiser Richard Viguerie will impact the LP both at its convention this week, and long into [...]

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