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Why is the Nobel Peace Prize winner sending troops to Africa now?
What a joke
9 AnswersPolitics10 years agoShould the guy who minted Ron Paul Liberty dollars be put in prison for 15 years? You know what they say, the?
government hates competition. Guess I'll keep using dollars that are declining in value, or go to prison.
4 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIn a recent Ron Paul interview on CNN Wolf Blitzer told him the KY race was tied at 46%?
But according to Rasmussen and other polls Rand Paul is way ahead of him.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/pol...
Republican Rand Paul receives his highest level of support since winning his party’s primary in May in the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race.
Paul is now supported by 54% of Likely Voters in Kentucky, when leaners are added, while Democrat Jack Conway earns the vote from 39%. Two percent (2%) prefer another candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/05/rand-paul-...
Republican nominee and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul has opened a 15-point lead over Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky's Senate race, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted Aug. 30-Sept. 1 for The Louisville Courier-Journal and WHAS11.
Paul leads Conway, the state's attorney general, by 55 percent to 40 percent, with 5 percent undecided.
And here is the CNN interview
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/652...
Do you think this was deliberate?
12 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoAre you in the Air Force, if so how long have you been in and how often have you been re stationed?
to a different location? I am joining the Air Force, my leave date for Basic is Dec. 28. My job is water and fuel systems maintenance. Will my job require that I am moved around a lot? I have heard that Airmen are often sent to different bases throughout their enlistment, but I was just wondering if my job would require this
7 AnswersMilitary1 decade agoWhy is an economist for the Richmond Federal Reserve worried about internet bloggers?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-...
Like a mad aunt, the Fed is slowly losing its marbles.
Kartik Athreya, senior economist for the Richmond Fed, has written a paper condemning economic bloggers as chronically stupid and a threat to public order.
Matters of economic policy should be reserved to a priesthood with the correct post-doctoral credentials, which would of course have excluded David Hume, Adam Smith, and arguably John Maynard Keynes (a mathematics graduate, with a tripos foray in moral sciences).
“Writers who have not taken a year of PhD coursework in a decent economics department (and passed their PhD qualifying exams), cannot meaningfully advance the discussion on economic policy.”
LOL
Right, we should keep listening to the economists that brought on and failed to see this debacle, shouldn't we? And if other points of view ARE invalid, why would a paper be needed pointing it out?
2 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhy is the head of the ACLU disgusted with the Obama administration?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0610/AC...
The top official at the American Civil Liberties Union seems to be losing patience with President Barack Obama and his administration.
Speaking at a conference of liberal activists Wednesday morning, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero didn't mince his words about the administration's handling of civil liberties issues.
"I'm going to start provocatively ... I'm disgusted with this president," Romero told the America's Future Now breakout session, according to blogger Marcy Wheeler of Firedoglake.com.
In an interview with POLITICO, Romero confirmed the gist of the quote, though he emphasized it wasn't intended as an ad hominem attack.
"I'm not disgusted at President Obama personally. It's President Obama's policies on civil liberties and national security issues I'm disgusted by. It's not a personal attack," Romero said.
While liberals of various stripes have or had gripes with how Obama has conducted himself since taking office, civil libertarians may well be the most disillusioned at this point.
"There was a discussion this morning, and there has been generally in progressive circles, about expectations that have not been met. I made the point that expectations were high because the president set expectations very high," Romero said.
Asked why he's so animated now, Romero said: "It’s 18 months and, if not now, when? ... Guantanamo is still not closed. Military commissions are still a mess. The administration still uses state secrets to shield themselves from litigation. There's no prosecution for criminal acts of the Bush administration. Surveillance powers put in place under the Patriot Act have been renewed. If there has been change in the civil liberties context, I frankly don't see it."
Many analysts now regard it as unlikely that Guantanamo, which was supposed to close this past January under Obama's presidential order on the subject, will close this year. Romero agreed that if Sept. 11 trials proceed before military commissions at Guantanamo it's hard to see how the prison will close in the year or two after that.
"The unwillingness of the administration to stick by its guns and prosecute the Sept. 11 defendants in criminal court does not bode well for the broader civil liberties agenda," he said. "The fact they've not announced anything raises the specter of doubt that, in itself, is debilitating to the Justice Department and raises serious questions about the administration's commitment to the rule of law. Their silence speaks volumes."
A White House spokesman declined to comment on Romero's broadsides.
8 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoShould Congress read bills and understand them before voting on them?
7 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIf you are against Ron Paul why are you for currency debasement?
Doesn't make much sense
4 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIs it true that liberalism is synonymous with incrementalism?
1 AnswerPolitics1 decade agoDo you find it outright bold how pundits and politicians can outright lie to the masses on national TV?
It's pretty wild how anybody could have the balls to consciously do that. Do you think they ever fear for their safety, or do you think they are so arrogant they just don't care?
16 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhat are the key differences between Bush and Obama foreign policy?
13 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoHow did Rand Paul win with no support from the RNC or DNC?
3 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoHave you seen this tax collection ad from the PA Department of Revenue? Is it a legit ad?
This ad is is straight out of 1984. Does anybody know if it is real and has actually been aired in PA?
6 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhat do you think of this chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: dollar value 1913-2005?
http://www.examiner.com/x-11888-Pittsburgh-Republi...
I think that is a good reason for it to be abolished. You?
7 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoTo those who say Ron Paul is not a conservative because of his "isolationinst" (actually non-interventionist)?
foreign policy, do they think Robert Taft and Dwight D. Eisenhower were liberals? Taft was known as "Mr. Republican", and Eisenhower warned about and coined the term Militay Industrial Complex in his farewell speech. Not to mention the GOP has historically gotten us OUT of wars, generally.
9 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIs Ron Paul right that according to Keynesian economics, there is NEVER a good time...?
to reign in spending and government?
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view...
Continually increasing the debt is one of the logical outcomes of Keynesianism, since more government spending is always their answer. It is claimed that government must not stop spending when the economy is so fragile. Government must act. Yet, when times are good, government also increases in size and scope, because we can afford it, it is claimed. There is never a good time to rein in government spending according to Keynesian economists and the proponents of big government.
3 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago