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Rick Santorum INSULTS the Tea Party

2012-02-15T08:36:00.001-08:00

George Soros Endorses Mitt Romney

2012-02-15T08:35:00.000-08:00

NO ONE BUT PAUL MONEYBOMB

2012-02-14T10:04:00.001-08:00

We don't compromise. We don't hold our nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. We don't settle. In the same "Liberty or Death" spirit of our Forefathers, we declare "NO ONE BUT PAUL"
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http://ronpaul2012.com/

You, the State, and Dog Ownership

2012-02-13T09:30:00.000-08:00

I'm hanging out with my awesome dog, and had I thought. Even though I love this guy to death and I try to make his life as happy as possible, giving him too many dog treats, building a damn fence just so he can run around without a leash, etc., I still maintain control over his life.

And of course the reason for that is because he is a dog and there's a trade off - he gets less freedom in return for a safer, less hungry life as well as my companionship. And we could argue that he might be happier living in his natural state in the wild, but he seems to like me, and he's not constantly trying to overthrow me or dash out the door every time I open it. Most of the time he is asleep in my bed, so I assume I have his consent.

And in no way am I advocating a human society where we each have a 1-on-1 master/slave relationship. What I'm thinking about is human motivation.

Now, what if I controlled over 300 million dogs? I couldn't possibly love and take proper care of all of them, no matter how "good" a person I was. It's just logistically impossible. By statistical standards, even if 3 million of them died as a result of my actions, that's only 1%. I'd still have scored a A+. I'm reminded of a speech Rothbard gave in the early 90s talking about the newly collapsed USSR. He basically says, "They couldn't calculate!", in his hilarious voice.

But if I forget to feed my dog in the morning, I feel like an absolute bastard for days. If he gets sick I drop everything and take him to the vet. Its the personal connection I have with him that propels me to cooperate with him. And I think it's the same basic thing that happens with politicians. Obama doesn't give a shit about me, he doesn't even know me. But he might actually care about the people he works with in his administration daily. I'm sure he cares about his family. If he screwed life up for his kids, he would have to live with that every day.

So I think this is yet another aspect to approach the critique of statism (not that it needs another one); that even despite a person's best intentions, it is just impossible to act in the best interests of people you don't even know. And because you don't have to really face them, you can make those "tough" decisions and cave in to the demands of the ones you do know; the LOUDER ones, the lobbyists, your "advisors", other government leaders. And once again, this assumes quite naively that our leaders are actually giving the tiniest of rabbit shits about us.

So even if we were to find those politicians who are good people, who truly care about us all, that argument for statism would still fail based on the problem of calculation, and the fact that if a human, given the power to choose, has to choose exclusively between the well being of two equally deserving people, they will choose the person with whom they have a more personal relationship.

The only good politician is the one who will work to destroy his own job, to reduce large control into smaller, one-on-one levels that become more personal. And while even that would be too much government, it is my hope that we can carry out this dismantling in such a fashion so as to minimize shock and ensure a stable transformation. If that's not possible, as Rothbard believed, then we'll have to take faster steps (Rothbard said that if there was a red button he could press to immediately abolish the government, he would break his finger pushing it).

This election is just that. We are playing their game by their rules, but I feel that we might be approaching the last round. Not by our choice, but because they have broken the game, dishonored the rules, and made it impossible to win.

Catherine Bleish: MAKE FREEDOM HAPPEN!

2012-02-13T09:24:00.001-08:00

Adam Kokesh: FREEDOM IS INEVITABLE

2012-02-13T09:21:00.001-08:00

Civil Liberties Tour

2012-02-10T14:26:00.000-08:00

Learn more about the Guest Speakers:
http://www.yaliberty.org/tour

watch the full presentation:

http://www.tennesseeforronpaul.com/2012/02/yal-civil-liberties-tour-at-mtsu.html

Great Article on Ron Paul's Youth

2012-02-06T09:47:00.001-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/us/politics/for-ron-paul-a-distinctive-worldview-of-long-standing.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Tennessee Republican Assembly Endorses Santorum?!?

2012-01-30T11:42:00.000-08:00

TN Republican Assembly Straw Poll Results:
Ron Paul 200 or 63.3%
Rick Santorum 62 or 19.6%
Newt Gingrich 38 or 12%
Mitt Romney 15 or 4%
John Huntsman 1 or 0%

In an effort to ignore Ron Paul and the two hundred new Conservative\/Tea Party type voters who showed up at the TRA event, the TRA has endorsed Rick Santorum for President.

Rick Santorum isn't on the ballot in Virginia, has no ground game in Tennessee, and has no delegates in Tennessee. Santorum failed to bother to get himself on the ballot in Virginia and is probably going to drop out of the Presidential Race.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/13/breaking-perry-gingrich-santorum-and-huntsman-will-not-be-on-virginia-ballot/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/30/bachmann-santorum-have-no-delegates-on-tennessee-primary-ballot/
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/206587-santorum-indicates-he-may-leave-florida-before-primary

The entrenched Political Machinery of Nashville, TN needs a good mechanic to perform an overhaul on their strategical response system. To endorse a faltering candidate and ignore a young new base of Conservative Voters is political suicide.

I have been really impressed with the Grassroots Volunteers for Ron Paul in Tennessee. They have been going door to door for months, hosting Ron Paul Tables at Gun Show, and making targeted phone calls to share the message of freedom. To ignore such a large group of enthusiastic Constitutional Conservatives who are doing this with no funding or direction from an official campaign is incomprehensible.

Check out the disconnect:

The unmanned, small, and lonely Rick Santorum Table at the Tennessee Republican Assembly Straw Poll:

compare with the Vibrant and Volunteer ran Ron Paul 2012 booth at the TRA Straw Poll:

Battle of Athens Moneybomb

2012-01-30T11:03:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul Media Blackout in Nashville, TN

The Tennessee Republican Assembly hosted a Straw Poll in Nashville, TN this past weekend and Ron Paul was the clear winner with 200 votes! A serious upset for the Status Quo. The story gets more complex when you read on how the Local Corporate Media affilites mistakenly report that Rick Santorum had won..
http://www.tennesseeforronpaul.com/2012/01/ron-paul-victory-at-tra-straw-poll.html

It seems that shenanigans and disinformation are rampant in the Entrenched Political Machine in Nashviille, TN. Ron Paul Supporters are avoiding juvenile name calling and are turning their disgust with being swindled into DIRECT ACTION.

Local Grassroots volunteers have pledged to redouble their efforts for Ron Paul and are hosting a Battle of Athens Moneybomb...
http://tennesseeforronpaul.chipin.com/final-push-for-ron-paul-in-tn

The recent Straw Poll Victory and the subsequent local Ron Paul Media Blackout mirror similiar circumstances which lead to the Battle of Athens, TN in 1946.

The volunteers at Tennessee for Ron Paul have come up with a creative and peaceful way to restore the rule of Law and promote Constitutional Principles and I salute them.

Ron Paul Wins Tennessee Republican Assembly Straw Poll

2012-01-30T10:47:00.000-08:00

TN REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY STRAW POLL RESULTS:

Ron Paul 200 votes

Rick Santorum 62 votes
Newt Gingrich 38 votes
Mitt Romney 15 votes
Jon Huntsman 1 vote

related:
http://www.tennesseeforronpaul.com/2012/01/ron-paul-victory-at-tra-straw-poll.html

Newt Gingrich: Space Cadet

2012-01-26T07:33:00.000-08:00

"By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich said"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71991.html#ixzz1kflW60N1

“I believe that space tourism will be a common fact of life during the adulthood of children born this year, that honeymoons in space will be the vogue by 2020,” Gingrich wrote toward the end of the chapter. “Imagine weightlessness and its effects and you will understand some of the attractions.” -Newt Gingrich

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/25/newt-in-1996-lets-build-a-real-jurassic-park-have-sex-in-space/#ixzz1kfmAcblt

Newt Gingrich wants to colonize the moon and wrote a book detailing his fantasies of having sex in Outer Space?!?!
And you think us Ron Paul Supporters are crazy for wanting to obey the Constitution, restore Sound Money, and have a Foreign Policy of Peace?

*sheesh*

related:

TSA detains Rand Paul in Nashville, TN

2012-01-24T02:35:00.000-08:00

Tyranny is thriving in my own State. Yesterday, Senator Rand Paul was harassed and detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport.
In response, some of us were able to assemble and protest at the Nashville Airport. Unfortunately, within 30 seconds of our impromptu protest inside the airport we were surrounded by some not so friendly cops. We were informed that we could not "protest" inside the airport and that we had to put our signs down. We were told we could apply for a permit to protest or be arrested for trespassing. While en route to ask "permission" to exercise our 1st Amendment, one of my friends saw some local reporters and raised her sign for their cameras. Our field trip to obtain a permission slip to speak was then cut short by the cops and we were forced to leave (but not arrested). Local Media got a quick interview with us before we left (@46 seconds)
Rand Paul on being detained:

"“It was a big headache,” Paul said in a phone interview. “I missed my speech here. I was supposed to speak to the Right to Life March, probably the biggest audience I’ll get to speak to, and I missed it.”"

"The White House, through spokesman Jay Carney, defended the TSA’s actions during Monday’s press briefing by arguing that Paul wasn’t technically “detained.”
“Let’s be clear,” Carney said. “The passenger was not detained. He was escorted out of the area by local law-enforcement.”"

"But Sen. Paul told TheDC that he certainly felt like he was detained. “If you’re told you can’t leave, does that count as detention?” Paul asked.

“I tried to leave the cubicle to speak to one of the TSA people and I was barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!’ So, that, to me sounds like I’m being asked not to leave the cubicle. It sounds a little bit like I’m being detained.”"

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/rand-paul-on-tsa-detainment-i-was-barked-at-do-not-leave-the-cubicle/#ixzz1kSq9S88T

"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security." - Benjamin Franklin

Ron Paul Footage

2012-01-17T01:49:00.000-08:00

Check out some footage of Ron Paul from his visit to Mississippi State University back in April 2011:

Owen Wilson Endorses Ron Paul 2012

2012-01-17T01:43:00.001-08:00

Rick Santorum brags about working with Hillary Clinton

2012-01-17T01:40:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul is Obama's Toughest Competitor

2012-01-12T01:46:00.000-08:00

FOX NEWS: Ron Paul is Obama's Toughest Competitor

Jim Demint: The GOP should listen to Ron Paul

2012-01-12T01:43:00.000-08:00

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Jim Demint: The GOP should listen to Ron Paul

"The debate within the Republican Party that I'm comfortable with is between conservatives and libertarians. There's just no room for moderates and liberals when your government's fifteen trillion dollars in debt. We don't have any money to spend, so it doesn't make any sense to compromise with someone who wants to grow the government." -Senator Jim DeMint

Ron Paul's Reasonable and Less Reckless Foreign Policy

2012-01-12T01:40:00.001-08:00

Rick Santorum's Nephew Supports Ron Paul

2012-01-05T09:16:00.000-08:00

"If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum. America is based on a strong belief in individual liberty. My uncle’s interventionist policies, both domestic and foreign, stem from his irrational fear of freedom not working.
It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work with each other freely. When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them as a senator. The reason we have so much debt is not only because of Democrats, but also because of big-spending Republicans like my Uncle Rick.
It is because of this inability of status quo politicians to recognize the importance of our individual liberties that I have been drawn to Ron Paul. Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions. He believes that an individual is more powerful than any group (a notion our founding fathers also believed in)."

Rick Santorum brags about working with Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman

2012-01-05T08:27:00.000-08:00

Rick Santorum brags about working with Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, and Joe Lieberman in a 2006 Political Ad. The professional wrestling backdrop is appropriate for a politician who feigns Conservative yet has a voting record that would make his buddies Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman jealous.

Sweaty guys wrestling to a fake script, sanitized violence, and token one liners mirror what some Americans accept as politics as usual during the Presidential Election Cycle.

This video is strange in many ways... Most disturbing is how he brags about working with Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Lieberman. All of the aforementioned politicians, including Santorum, have committed atrocities against the rights of the American People. Santorum has supported a tax for the Internet, the bailout of the Airline Industry, and restrictions of the 2nd Amendment.
related:
http://www.tennesseesonsofliberty.com/2012/01/rick-santorums-liberal-voting-record.html

Rick Santorum's Liberal Voting Record

2012-01-05T08:11:00.000-08:00

Rick Santorum voted with extreme liberal Barbara Boxer to restrict your 2nd Amendment Rights (gun lock requirement):
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/7704/21354/27054/gun-lock-requirement-amendment

Rick Santorum voted to increase the Debt Limit
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3272/7739/27054/debt-limit-increase-resolution

Rick Santorum voted for CAFTA, which lead to textile manufacturing plants to leave the South
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3380/7728/27054/cafta-implementation-bill

Rick Santorum voted to TAX the Internet:
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3250/7806/27054/internet-access-tax-bill

Rick Santorum voted to establish Homeland Security
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3121/7796/27054/establishing-the-department-of-homeland-security

Rick Santorum voted to invade Iraq:
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3083/7880/27054/use-of-military-force-against-iraq

Rick Santorum voted for the No Child Left Behind Act (Fed. Govt. interfering with how your child is educated)
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3087/8426/27054/no-child-left-behind-act

Rick Santorum voted in favor of Alan Greenspan to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (his fourth four year term)
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/7631/21223/27054/alan-greenspan-federal-reserve-chairman

Rick Santorum voted to PROTECT Abortion Clinics:
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/5480/21800/27054/abortion-clinic-access-bill

Rick Santorum voted in FAVOR of the Military Commissions Act of 2006:
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/3391/7824/27054/military-commissions-act-of-2006
Strips the right of detainees to habeas corpus (the traditional right of detainees to challenge their detention);
Gives the US President the power to detain indefinitely anyone—US or foreign nationals, from within the US, and from abroad—it deems to have provided material support to anti-US hostilities, and even use secret and coerced evidence (i.e. through use of torture) to try detainees who will be held in secret US military prisons;
Gives US officials immunity from prosecution for torturing detainees that were captured before the end of 2005 by US military and CIA.

Rick Santorum voted to BAILOUT the Airline Industry:
The Air Transportation Safety Act released $5 billion in compensation and an additional $10 billion in loan guarantees or other federal credit instruments.
http://www.votesmart.org/bill/votes/7696

Rick Santorum: There is no Right to Privacy in the Constitution

2012-01-05T07:07:00.000-08:00

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. -4th Amendment

Rick Santorum believes in Big Government

2012-01-05T06:49:00.001-08:00

Celebrities for Ron Paul

2012-01-05T06:46:00.000-08:00