If his candidacy catches fire, it will be because Mr Paul awakens America’s disaffected centre to the idea that between the battle lines of American politics, beyond the party banners and flags, there is more common ground than is popularly understood.
via American Way: between Democrats and Republicans, a libertarian "third force" is emerging – Telegraph.
.. the relationship between the United States and India is actually one of the most important ones we have.
The Primaries Project seeks to gain insight into the conversation going on within the Democratic and Republican parties.
via THOMAS Top Ten for 9/28/2014 – THOMAS (Library of Congress).
Supporters of liberty should cheer the growth in support for secession, as it is the ultimate rejection of centralized government and the ideologies of Keynesianism, welfarism, and militarism.
via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful.
In some respects, Paul is to Republicans in 2014 what Barack Obama was to Democrats in 2006:
the Party’s most prized fund-raiser and its most discussed senator, willing to express opinions unpopular within his party, and capable of energizing younger voters.
Paul stood behind the podium in blue jeans, quoting the Founding Fathers and modern authors off a teleprompter, ever the iconoclastic intellect.
Cruz roamed the stage in a boxy suit, preaching a passage from Psalms again and again in a call for spiritual rebirth.
.. those who love freedom must realize that freedom is not a license to do as you please, freedom can only be realized when citizens know self restraint, or put another way — virtue.
This parallels George Washington’s belief that democracy requires a virtuous people.
The Obama-created power vacuum around the world is dangerous, not only to freedom-loving peoples across the globe, but ultimately to the United States itself.
via Sorry, You’re On Your Own – Steve Chabot for Congress (OH-1).
Under last week’s authorization bill, the president would have authority to train 5,000 fighters in Saudi Arabia for insertion into the civil war in Syria.
This is in effect a re-arrangement of the deck chairs. To this point the training was carried out by the CIA in Jordan and Turkey. Now, the program will be moved to the Pentagon and to Saudi Arabia.
via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Congress Votes for More War in the Middle East.
First of all, Barack Obama can’t even bring himself to acknowledge who the enemy is.
He emphasized in his speech that “ISIL is not ‘Islamic.’” Whoa there!
“ISIL” stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
“ISIS” stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
very time the net neutrality debate returns to Washington, D.C., “it stirs up an interesting debate between government regulation versus, to some, the terrifying freedom of the Internet.”
“I think the American people don’t find that freedom all that terrifying.”
via Senate committee steps into net neutrality debate | Computerworld.
The push for a new law was fueled by cases of small businesses and tech innovators being drained of their limited budgets by “patent trolls” – entities using patents not to build or improve inventions, but to threaten people with infringement lawsuits to extort settlements as an alternative to expensive litigation.
Patent trolls sometimes use poorly defined or expired patents on consumer technology to extort out-of-court settlements from small businesses.
“Most people don’t even know there’s a midterm election – it’s not in their universe of things to look forward to.”
“And so much is at stake. So much is at stake in the election and I would hope, if I could put one word on the ballot, it would be bipartisanship.”
via Pelosi: 'We never treated President Bush the way they treat President Obama' – Washington Times.
via THOMAS Top Ten for 9/14/2014 – THOMAS (Library of Congress).
On the ballot is a measure to prohibit the Swiss National Bank (SNB) from further gold sales, to repatriate Swiss-owned gold to Switzerland, and to mandate that gold make up at least 20 percent of the SNB’s assets.
via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Will The Swiss Vote to Get Their Gold Back?.
“If Harry Reid refuses to hold the vote before the Senate leaves town, you can help us make sure the American people hear about it all the way until Election Day and build so much pressure by the time Congress returns, the Senate will be forced to act in the Lame Duck”
via Ron Paul’s ‘Audit the Fed’ bill returns to Congress – Washington Times.
What is the greatest challenge currently facing the United States?
via Hillary Disqualifies Herself – Steve Chabot for Congress (OH-1).
via THOMAS Top Ten for 9/7/2014 – THOMAS (Library of Congress).
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