I enjoyed the Daily Show with Jon Stewart before the run up to the 2004 election, when he suddenly seemed to become more partisan and less funny. In the light of Stewart’s latest feud with Jim Cramer Tucker Carlson, Stewart’s old nemesis, explains what happened in a post titled “How Jon Stewart Went Bad“:
The relationship [...]

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Apparently the best advocate the drug warriors could find was Stephen Baldwin?

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Compared to the Presidential race, where I’m reluctant to vote at all, voting down the ballot is a breeze.
Here are the “choices” I’m faced with. And here are my picks:
Senate: Warner will run away with this, so a vote for Libertarian candidate Redpath is easy even though I know nothing about him except for [...]

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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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I first published this piece two years ago, but in light of the new talks between the North and the South and the never ending frustration over Darfur, it seems like a good time to re-examine the issue.

“The United States is committed to ending the violence and providing assistance to the suffering people of Darfur, [...]

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On the very day that Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, debuts at #1 on Amazon, two new stories popped up that hearken back to a very old topic, race. 
First, my buddy Dave Wiegal over at Reason uses Ron’s endorsement of Lew Rockwell and the Mises Institute as proof that Ron Paul is [...]

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Watch this video of Ron Paul advisor Peter Schiff debating Art “Laffer Curve” Laffer back from 2006:

Looks like Laffer owes Schiff an apology (and $.01).
(via Tim Swanson)

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Only four GOP candidates were invited to an August 20th forum in Nevada hosted by the University of Nevada and Brookings:
Rudy, McCain, Romney and Ron Paul.

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