TagsTagsOn his way to a religious fanatic anti-abortion hatefest, Sen. Rand Paul was detained today by TSA agents in Nashville after a scanner went off, and he then refused a pat down. Now, in true Paul family fashion, Rand Paul is planning a formal Senate investigation to find out who's behind ...
Pseudo-libertarian kook Rand Paul has announced that he's planning a filibuster over the debt ceiling. On Newsmakers, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will hold up the Senate’s business next week to force a debate on the debt limit. The Senate canceled its Fourth of July break to ensure discussions ...
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This is shaping up to be the most reactionary far right Republican Party presidential campaign in history. We've got serial philanderer and newly-minted religious right mouthpiece Newt Gingrich, creationist anti-gay panderer to hate groups Tim Pawlenty, Herman "All Muslims want to kill us" Cain, Haley "The KKK wasn't so bad" ...
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See -- this is why conservatives can't have nice things. "It's a sad day in American history when a one-time conservative/libertarian stalwart has fallen more out of touch with America's needs for national security then our current socialist presidential regime," said the group's national director Jordan Marks. The dispute between Paul ...
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The Republican Party put anti-Federal Reserve wingnut libertarian Ron Paul in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve, and today, for his first hearing as chairman, he called one of his friends as a witness -- neo-Confederate slavery apologist Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, one of the most ...
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Tea Party hero Rand Paul says we need to end 'welfare' to Israel. “I think they’re an important ally, but I also think that their per capita income is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world,” he said. “Should we be giving free money or welfare to ...
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It didn't get much notice, but Tea Party "libertarian" Rand Paul (R-AquaBuddha) released his personal federal budget yesterday; I have to give him some credit for being specific about what he would cut, unlike most Republicans, but this budget is a real hoot. Congressman Paul proposes to cut spending by more ...
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Tea Party libertarian/far-right fundamentalist/corporate tool Rand Paul has decided he's just going to get right down to the business of gutting the federal government, whether anyone else joins him or not. If you want something done (far) right, do it yourself. The tea party hero is at the bottom of ...
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Here's newly elected Republican Senator Rand Paul, sucking up to the craziest talk show host in America, Alex Jones. And nobody seems to care. [Video]
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As expected, the Republican Party has placed Ron Paul, a pseudo-libertarian far right kook with an openly stated desire to destroy the Federal Reserve and return the US economy to the gold standard, in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve. Also see: Ron Paul Wants to End the Fed, So the GOP ...
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At Religion Dispatches, Julie Ingersoll has an excellent post on the extreme fundamentalist sect known as "Christian Reconstructionism" and its influence on the modern libertarian movement's call to destroy the Federal Reserve: Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed. While Ron Paul’s anti-Fed crusade is widely thought ...
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Now that he's been elected, Rand Paul has no need to run away from the media any more, so he showed up today on "Face The Nation" -- and out came the crazy: Rand Paul says Obama set the wrong tone on BP. President Barack Obama's tone on the massive ...
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For the past few years I've been watching Ron Paul's rise to power with a gut-wrenching sense of inevitability; despite his overtly racist newsletters, insane economic theories, and associations with extremists and conspiracy wackos of all kinds, from the John Birch Society to Alex Jones, his star just keeps rising ...
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The Republican Party's plan to ride back to power on the TeaBag Express seems to be running into a few roadblocks -- the Tea Party candidates themselves. In Kentucky, a volunteer for tea-party-backed Senate candidate Rand Paul was videotaped stepping on the head of a liberal protester. In Delaware and ...
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A video from another angle has been released from the Rand Paul rally in Kentucky, showing MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle trying to approach Paul several times. Here it is: [Video] Does this change the perception of the incident? In one way, it does; it makes it understandable that people tried to ...
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Yes, folks, the Rand Paul county coordinator who stomped on a MoveOn activist's head says he's the real victim, and he thinks he's owed an apology. Tim Profitt, the former Rand Paul volunteer who stepped on the head of a MoveOn.org-affiliated activist outside of a debate on Monday, said he ...
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I don't want to believe the ugly comments at almost every right wing blog about the woman assaulted by Rand Paul supporters last night. Has the entire wingnut blogosphere turned into a pack of rabid animals? Jim "Dim" Hoft thinks Lauren Valle deserved to be stomped on the head, and he's ...
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Curb Stomp Guy has been identified as Rand Paul's Bourbon County coordinator, Tim Profitt. Here's video of the assault (now all over YouTube): [Video] UPDATE at 10/26/10 12:08:22 pm: A photo of Profitt with Rand Paul (h/t Gus 802): UPDATE at 10/26/10 12:10:16 pm: The Rand Paul campaign has now issued a stronger statement on the ...
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Here's the official statement from the Rand Paul campaign on the violence perpetrated by his supporters -- and of course, he doesn't quite condemn it. "We understand that there was an altercation outside of the debate between supporters of both sides and that is incredibly unfortunate. Violence of any kind ...
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Rand Paul isn't just running away from the press and critics now; his supporters are beating and stomping them: Woman stomped outside Conway-Paul debate. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Outside the Conway-Paul debate, a Rand Paul supporter pulled the woman's blonde wig off and stomped on her head. She was ...
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I find it continually amazing to see the Republican candidates in this election openly advocating bizarre and extreme ideas like abolishing Social Security and the Department of Education. It seems to have become an article of faith on the right wing that all the social progress of the last century ...
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The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Rand Paul is a member of the totally whacked-out Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group with an innocuous-sounding name that touts some really insane conspiracy theories: Rand Paul part of AAPS doctors’ group airing unusual views. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul belongs ...
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In tried and true Paul family fashion, the Rand Paul campaign responded to the revelation that one of their staffers had been trolling Daily Kos by claiming that it was a double reverse conspiracy. Whenever Ron or Rand are caught doing something underhanded, this is how they respond. I posted yesterday ...
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At Daily Kos, they've discovered a paid staffer for Rand Paul's campaign posing as a left-winger and posting deceptive comments about Paul's opponent Jack Conway: KY-Sen: Rand Paul staffer caught posing as a progressive at Daily Kos. It's a cost-effective strategy for an organization that isn't too concerned with little things ...
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An exquisitely bizarre moment, brought to you by the weirdest GOP candidate out of a very weird batch. [Video]
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