TagsTagsRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul continues to evade responsibility for the ugly, deranged newsletters he sold for many years; recently he claimed that "only 8 to 10 sentences were offensive," out of all these newsletters. This, dear readers, is what is commonly known as "an outright lie." And today The New ...
Ron Paul, Racism, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, libertarianism, Republican Party, Election 2012
Byron York seems to believe it's news that not all of Ron Paul's supporters are Republicans, but come on; that's been incredibly obvious for years. Ron Paul lives out on the fringes where extreme right and extreme left wrap around and meet. It's incorrect to call these people "mischief voters," as ...
Ron Paul, Republican Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, libertarianism
Starring in a pair of new films made by antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theorist James Jaeger: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Yesterday, filmmaker James Jaeger of the Jaeger Research Institute publicized the films SPOiLER: How A Third Party Could Win and Original Intent, which “exposes the historical march of Cultural Marxism.” ...
Ron Paul, 9/11 Truthers, Antisemitism, Bad Craziness, Pat Buchanan, Far Right, libertarianism
When I was sixteen, I read the works of Ayn Rand. Specifically, I read the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which I reread several times, and some selected edited portions of her 'philosophical works'. The books made a large impression on me. I was a highly intelligent young man frustrated ...
The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1900, with winds up to 145 mph, was the deadliest in US history. Official reports put the death toll at about 8,000, but many believe the true number was much higher. So many people were killed that it was impossible to bury them ...
Ron Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, FEMA, Galveston Hurricane
During the last election, it became a running joke at LGF that Ron Paul's odd supporters would spam and skew and vote repeatedly in every Internet poll they could find, trying to boost the Crazy Uncle's apparent popularity. This measure of popularity is completely bogus, of course, because it's trivially easy ...
Ron Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, Isolationism, Conspiracy Theories, Internet Polls
In one of the most glaring examples of Republican Party cognitive dissonance, the GOP is positioning itself as the only true American friend of Israel -- but at the same time, moving more and more toward the pseudo-libertarian anti-Israel politics of Ron Paul and his son Rand, who strongly advocate ...
Ron Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, Israel, Isolationism
Crazy libertarian uncle Ron Paul would seem to be a poor fit with today's religious right-dominated Republican Party. But they're willing to overlook his anti-war isolationism and anarcho-capitalist economic lunacy, because Uncle Paul is just as eager to control women's bodies as the rest of the GOP: Ron Paul antes ...
Ron Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Religious Right
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 ...
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Federal Reserve
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 ...
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Federal Reserve
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 ...
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Federal Reserve
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 ...
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Constitution Party, John Birch Society, Alex Jones, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Federal Reserve
Not surprising, since Ron’s views on the Civil Rights Act are (at least publicly) even more extreme than Rand’s: Ron Paul Rises to Son’s Defense in Civil Rights Dust-Up. It’s a conspiracy by the left, of course. Default wingnut response to setbacks. Rep. Ron Paul said Thursday the criticism of his ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, libertarianism
The Page One blog in Kentucky points out that Rand Paul made his views on civil rights and discrimination perfectly clear in a letter to the editor of the Bowling Green Daily News in May 2002: Rand Paul Made Same Racial Comments in 2002. From Rand Paul’s letter: Decisions concerning private ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, libertarianism
As Rand Paul does his best to dodge and obfuscate his position on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it should be pointed out that he’s simply being a chip off the old block. In 2004, his father Ron Paul was the only member of Congress who voted “NO” on a ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, libertarianism
On the Laura Ingraham show this morning, Rand Paul decided to announce: “Yes, I would have voted for the Civil Rights Act.” (You have to wonder why he couldn’t answer “yes” last night when Rachel Maddow repeatedly asked this very question.) “These are settled issues in the Civil Rights Act,” ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, libertarianism
Well, Rand Paul really stepped deep into the muck yesterday with his painful waffling about the Civil Rights Act. The right wing blogosphere is in full-throated excuse-making mode this morning. Even Dave Weigel is desperately trying to spin this as being a “principled libertarian” stance, because as a libertarian himself ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, Abortion, libertarianism
Theocrat Mike Huckabee has blasted the CPAC conference, because of the domination by Ron Paul libertarians. This is where the tea party coalition begins to fall apart, because religious right conservatives like Huckabee are diametrically opposed to the laissez faire libertarian social philosophy. People like the Huckster are very much in ...
CPAC, Right Wing, Republican Party, social conservatism, Religious Right, John Birch Society, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, libertarianism