Dear Friends,
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.
The events of the past week are no exception.
The bailout package that is about to [...]

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Over at the American Conservative’s blog, Daniel McCarthy observes some of the same things I did about the Barr campaign’s actions regarding Ron Paul’s September 10th presser before concluding that Barr has only himself to blame for losing Dr. Paul’s endorsement to Chuck Baldwin (along with Barr’s own campaign manager Russ Verney).
By the way, also [...]

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I didn’t attend the press conference(s) today, but I’ve read reports from a variety of sources (with varying points of view). Here are some random observations:

Did the McCain campaign really think that having Phil Gramm ask Ron Paul to endorse McCain was a good idea? (From what I can gather it was the dirty tactics [...]

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Some actual fair treatment of the Ron Paul Rally by the main stream media:

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I watched most of the primetime speeches from the Democratic Convention and I was struck by the same thing as Eugene Robinson, who asked why the Democrats won’t talk about the illegal torture that has been going on during the Bush Administration.
In this clip, Pat Buchanan says if you want to hear any talk about [...]

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As evidenced by by this silly Washington Post commentary titled “McCain’s Problem isn’t his Tactics. It’s GOP Ideas,” the left (joined by their big government allies in the GOP) will do their best to portray Republican electoral failures as evidence of the failure of limited government conservatism.
As Matt Welch observes: “This critique requires a significant [...]

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Today’s Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary (subscription only) has a write up of Dr. Paul’s announcement that he is formally ending the Presidential campaign and forming a new organization to continue his Campaign for Liberty:
Phase 2 of the “Ron Paul Revolution” begins this summer in Minneapolis, where Mr. Paul announced he will host his [...]

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To all Ron Paul supporters:
Friday, June 13, 2008
Over the past 17 months you and I delivered a message of freedom, the likes of which American politics has not seen in decades. With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign has come to an end. But the Revolution has only begun.
Today I am happy [...]

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