Ron Paul gets FOXed
• YoutubeRon Paul post-debate on FOX News, pt. 1 of 2
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In Iraqi south, Shiites press for autonomy
• Christian Science MonitorWhen Najaf unplugged its power station from the national grid last week, it was a sign of provincial dissent over the unequal distribution of electricity. But it also indicates a new assertiveness in the south, as Iraq's regional leaders seek to
Bloggers, debates and taxes
• Independent-ConservativeFirst off, the Fair Tax . . is it really fair? Well, in my opinion, no it is not fair. What does the fair tax change? Proponents of the fair tax have set the sales tax figure at 23%. Why? Because that's the amount they would need to continue the
ABC News-Iowa Debate Poll results
• Spirit of '76The GOP debate, hosted by ABC News correspondant and former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos, really wasn't one of Paul's most shining moments. The host provided him little time to speak, favoring the corporate candidates approved by the
Drudge-Iowa Debate Poll results
• Drudge ReportFollowing the GOP debate in Iowa yesterday DrudgeReport.com had their usual poll asking readers who won the debate. Below are the results of that poll which was pulled down sometime between 6:30pm EST and 8:00pm EST.
Blogging perspective on the debate
• API had to watch ABC.com's edited version of the debate, and came away with "why the hell can't the Republicans nominate someone with Giuliani's social views, Ron Paul's foreign policy, and Sam Brownback's views on the death pe
A neocon perspective on the debate
• Human EventsIowa frontrunners Romney and Giuliani showcased their ideas, poise and style. 2nd-tier candidates Huckabee (8%) and Hunter showed why they are still in the race while Constitution gadfly Ron Paul, proved redundantly why they should not be.
2 Arabs face explosives charges in traffic stop, but feds say no bomb
• Reuters2 men faced state explosives charges after police outside Charleston, South Carolina, found what a law enforcement source said was a bomb and bomb-making material in their car during a weekend traffic stop. But federal officials disputed that accoun
White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat
• ABC News[Oh, puke! Here comes the fear.] Senior law enforcement officials said today that the growing signs of a "Summer of '07" terror attack on the U.S. have led the FBI to dispatch dozens of agents to track down new leads across the country.
When failure to police yourself against crimes you haven't committed becomes a crime
• Classical ValuesIt's one thing to prosecute and punish crime, but what gives the government the right to step in and require citizens to monitor themselves? What's being discussed here is making it a crime not to use crime prevention devices. Where does it e
Presidential debates in Spanish? Sí
• Houston ChronicleUnivisión plans to make its own history by airing the first U.S. presidential debates in Spanish Sept. 9 and 16 in Miami. Questions at the live debate would be simultaneously translated into English. But there are, naturally, some issues.
What do citizens owe government?
• FFF(Jim Bovard)When politicians are not promising new benefits to citizens, they continually remind citizens what they owe the government. From their first years in government schools, children are indoctrinated with the notion that government provides them
Russia to commission new ICBM in 2008
• International News(Isn't this adminstration just grand) The Russian Navy plans to commision a new intercontinental ballistic missile next year after completing its tests, it chief said on Saturday. Adm. Vladmir Masorin said that the Navy was to conduct another t
The Black sites
• New YorkerA rare look inside the CIA's secret interrogatioin program.
Afghan pres says Iran has been helper and solution
• Raw Story"Iran has been a supporter of Afghanistan in the peace process that we have and the fight against terror and the fight against narcotics in Afghanistan... We have had very very good, very very close relations.... Iran has been a helper and a s
Iraqi political crisis grows
• APIraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings - leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions. Meanwhile
Bush wants more authority over wiretapping
• Raw StoryThe day after President George W. Bush marshaled political forces in Congress to grant him greater authority to engage in counterterrorism-related spying, the president stated that he would seek greater changes to the FISA when the legislative
California just decertified Diebold vote computers. Iowa Straw Poll counted by?....
• BradBlog.com"VotersUnite!" applauds Secretary of State Bowen's decision to decertify voting systems in California
Why the Iowa straw poll is still mighty important to candidates
• Des Moines RegisterIn the 1980 Republican presidential caucus campaign, Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker said one function of the Iowa caucuses was to "winnow the field" of candidates. He meant Iowa caucus-goers cut the field to a more manageable size for voters i
Ron Paul Supporters Denounce Iowa Diebold Use
• FreeMarketnews.comhttp://www.votefraud.org/ron_paul_stop_the_votefraud_page.htm - tells what happened at the Ames Straw Poll in 1995. One (A House without Doors) tells about the proven vote fraud against Pat Buchanan in the 1996 Iowa Presidential Caucuses, and how it
Night Riders for Ron Paul
• YoutubeMake your own illuminated cartop sign for under $50 -- then become a Night Rider for Ron Paul ("How-to" video).
Reflexiones Libertarias
Reforma Fiscal ¿onde?
Ricardo ValenzuelaMientras el presidente Calderón ansiosamente espera la bendición del Honrable Congreso aprobando su proyecto de Chupar-Side economics, gran parte del mundo se ha dado a la creación de una verdadera reforma tributaria utilizando esa magia conocida com
American Home Mortgage Files Chapter 11
• APAmerican Home Mortgage Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection, the latest casualty of a mortgage industry. The Melville, N.Y.-based mortgage lender asked a court in Wilmington, Del. for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its lenders.
Post-disaster plan details kept secret
• News DayIt's the stuff of nightmares: an attack on the nation's captial that would take out whole swaths of official Washington. In response to a presidential directive, White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend will deliver a plan thi
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
Stephen LendmanExposing the myths about the Constitution and the framers who conned us.
Payback Time: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
• Daily KosDuring the very time Congress was debating codifying President Bush's lawbreaking by revising the FISA law many of his allies have been afraid to publicly challenge as unconstitutional, Alberto Gonzales' DOJ was raiding the home of a former J
The three stooges
• SalonThe president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove.
Torture Used On 9/11 Suspect
• Washington PostKhalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was subjected to the CIA's harshest interrogation methods while he was held in secret prisons around the world for more than 3 years, part of an interrogati
The Abu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal
• BBC NewsThe US soldier who exposed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison found himself a marked man after his anonymity was blown in the most astonishing way by Donald Rumsfeld.
House approves $460B Pentagon budget
• APThe House approved modest changes to President Bush's record Pentagon budget proposal early Sunday. The House's $459.6 billion version of the defense budget, approved on a 395-13 vote, would add money for equipment for the National Guard and
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