Hillary the Hawk
• The Guardian"If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table, Ms Clinton said.
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Pentagon got FBI to help in spying on Americans
• Raw StoryThe Department of Defense has conspired with the FBI to "circumvent the law" in accessing hundreds of Americans' telephone, e-mail and financial records. The Pentagon issued 455 National Security Letters to obtain Americans' private
Ron Paul Making His Move
• Christian Broadcasting NetworkStop the Ron Paul jokes. Ron Paul is for real. Did you know he won the Conservative Leadership Conference straw poll in Nevada over the weekend? He didn't even show up to speak and he still won. Mitt Romney did show up and lost. Ouch! [4th place]
Live free or get hauled off to prison
• The EconomistTHE American constitution gives Congress the power to collect taxes. The 16th amendment to it elaborates that Congress may tax incomes. That is enough to make most Americans pony up. But Ed and Elaine Brown of New Hampshire are unconvinced. In 1996 t
Operation Triangulated: A Huge Ron Paul project from TARP....Help is needed!
• TARPWe have an opportunity to purchase a triangulated two sided billboard sign that's can fit two 14' x 48' banners.In perfect condition. Built by Kaiser Steel this sign is 40' x 16 1/2' with a 40' main-beam.
Jay Leno, “The Tonight Show'’ and regrets
• blogs.mercurynews.comIn an effort to avoid losing Conan O’Brien (of “Late Night'’) and his young, advertiser-friendly audience, the network reached a deal with Leno three years ago that he would step down in favor of O’Brien. But THEN...
Abizaid: 'We've treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations'
• Think Progress"Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that," Abizaid said of the Iraq campaign early on in the talk at Stanford University on Saturday.
The man who knew too much
• The GuardianHe prepared briefs for Dick Cheney, but when he uncovered a political scandal - a conspiracy to enable a rogue nation to get the nuclear bomb - he found himself a marked man.
NEEDED: High Res Ron Paul Photo
Ernest HancockAn inspired owner of other Interstate billboards wants to have them printed professionally (what are we,... chopped liver :) so that he can place 2 14 x 48 foot billboards on I-40 in New Mexico. But he can't find a high enough res photo of RP.
Sen. Craig: Romney "threw me under" campaign bus
• Reuters"Disgraceful," Mitt Romney said at the time about Sen.Larry Craig, who had served as co-chair of his campaign efforts on Capitol Hill.
"He not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again," Craig said
Taxing Ourselves to Death<br>by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX)
Powell GammillThis past week, Congress had an opportunity to permanently repeal the death tax by amending the Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007 to end the estate tax forever. This would have been a good provision in an overall bad bill.
The Art of Bailing Out
• MISH: Global Economic AnalysisIf you are in a doomed relationship, it is best to get out of it as quickly as you can. This advice applies not only to personal relationships but also to the stock market. Countrywide CEO Mozilo has perfected the art of bailing. On 6 occasions in Oc
Panic in the Florida Housing Market
• Palm Beach PostYou don't see the paperwork. You won't see the panic. But behind doors in Palm Beach County and along the treasure Coast, thousands of homeowners are struggling to make the mortgage.
Super SIVs - A Fraudulent Attempt at Concealment
• MISH: Global Economic AnalysisA bailout plan has been cooked up so that Citigroup will not have to mark to market huge losses in $400 billion in SIVs. Citi does not want to put the assets on the books or sell them. The plan allows a group of banks to buy the assets at so called *
"The End" - by L. Neil Smith
• L. Neil Smith for The Libertarian EnterpriseAs a libertarian, for example, I knew a collectivized "command and control" economy can't work, in particular, because it can't discover or establish price. Price is the single most important item of information that's necessary
Church leaders arrested at White House while attempting to deliver anti-war petitions
• J. Bennett GuessThe UK does not allow protests outside parliment, the US apparently does not allow them in certain areas outside the White House. So much for the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us
• NY Times OpEd"BUSH lies" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves. The Times unearthed yet another round of secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture. President Bush gave his
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Governor Lamm said, "It's the crime of the century!"
Frosty WooldridgeHow many people realize our current financial swindle of future generations passes for the "Crime of the Century"? Our U.S. Congress borrowed ourselves into $8.7 trillion debt. We're in SO much trouble financially throughout the world.
Is there life on a moon of Saturn?
• The GuardianThey are visions on the other side of the solar system: a moon with lakes of liquid methane: a tiny, rocky world with geysers of water that are being sprayed into space and a strange mottled moon that has been splattered with dark, organic-rich gunk
Romney ad becomes parody of itself
• Mitt RomneyPolitical Ad + Laugh track = Instant Parody
Banks plan fund to revive market
• BBCSome of the US's largest banks are expected to announce plans later to form a $75bn (£37bn) fund to support the ailing market for sub-prime debt.
Promised Social Change in Ecuador
Stephen LendmanHoped for change in Ecuador under a socially democratic president
al-Qaeda in Iraq Deal "Playing Cards of Death"
• Mondoreb & GinnOne week ago, Death by 1000 Papercuts posted a story about al-Qaeda in Iraq issuing playing cards similar to those the US handed out when hunting down leaders of Sadaam Hussein's regime. Only these cards had pictures of Iraqi tribal leaders AQI h
Giuliani Is Even Prepared for Space Aliens
• Mondoreb & GinnRudy Giuliani is prepared for anything: terrorists, Democrats, even space aliens. The following exchange took place today at a campaign stop in Exeter, NH. A small boy in the audience asked about the possibility of interstellar attack. "If (the
More Neo-Cons join Ghoul-iani
• Jim Lobe for Anti-War.comRepublican presidential candidate and current front-runner, Rudi Giuliani, has named four prominent neo-conservatives, to his already-neocon-dominated foreign policy team.
Cost Of Freedom At All-Time High
• The OnionEven as it reaches unprecedented levels, most Americans have no choice but to pay for the intangible commodity. "I suppose you need freedom," said Nancy Holstrom, who was forced to send her two eldest sons to Iraq last month to help defray
"The Republic is Stoned Cold Dead"
• by Karen Kwiatkowski (LewRockwell)It's over. The faithful and the hopeful may carry the corpse of the American republic, hoping that it can be brought back into normality, into life, and into power. I am afraid the nurturers will not survive.
How Comcast Censors Political Content
• BS AlertAnyone using Comcast has been unable to receive any Email with "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the body of the Email. That has included every Email from me, since that was in my signature at the bottom of every Email I sent.
We won't get fooled again (BIG SIGN VIDEO)
• YoutubeRon Paul Revolutionaries go on the road...this time thinking a little BIGGER :) We've been fool before, but we won't get fooled again! This time around we are going to take matters into our own hands.
Ron Paul Stings Hillary Clinton on Iraq War, Warns of Draft
• USA DailyRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul speaking at the Robert Taft Club in Arlington VA directed some of his firepower at his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Sounding like a candidate that can win his party’s nomination, Paul said, “She voted f
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