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There are two ballots. Only one counts. Don't get distracted.
Zurich-based Credit Suisse wails and gnashes teeth at the prospect of dollar holders seeing a 50% rise in purchasing power.
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“Never underestimate the power of 80 mph winds,” Jim Cullen told us on the first visit to the Desert Star Ranch, co-owned with his brother Jeff.
Apparently, the powers-that-be in the mainstream media do not want Americans to hear from the man who has been called “the most dangerous politician in America.”
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True to their motto of “Agora! Anarchy! Action!” agorists specifically, and CypherPunks in general, have been furiously creating secure, resilient, pseudonymous (and even anonymous) communications and transactions systems.
You could waste your time, energy, and money on politics, or you could get things done!
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Second Realm pirate radio
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In establishing a standard for trial courts in determining “drug dog” reliability for search PC, the Oregon supremes throw science and common sense out the window.
For more than 11 weeks, Greg Mitchell has been liveblogging Wikileaks releases and all things Wikileaks. Updated regularly throughout every day.
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The grocer, a Real American Hero, is the public face of a long line of millions of strangers from around the world who, pursuing their own self interests, truly enable the American standard of living.
Egyptian politicians jump in front of the people's parade, but Obama hasn't granted Mubarak permission to flee.
The treadmill of revolution goes round and round.
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Government officials must be protected from the fetid peasantry that seeks only to harm their persons and reputations. For the safety of all, we must pull out all the stops.
Americans will see military police roaming its streets. At least, Matthew Yglesias hopes so.
Advice for tax filers and parents about refund anticipation loans.
An online un-conference organized using anarchist, agorist and free market principles where you can build relationships, up your agorism game, have a blast and expand your mind.
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Ed Vallejo's "chemtrail" video gives us the perfect opportunity to break out the upper air analysis charts. Skew-T like you've never seen them!
Anonymous takes down visa.com in 16 minutes with the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. The new target is PayPal.com
Why Wikileaks and Amazon should be the topic de jure at every boardroom table.
Why did California's ballot measure to tax and regulate cannabis fail? The taxes and regulations, of course.
That was a lot of time, energy, animosity, and money. Let's see what all this anti-establishment fervor bought you.
The Erie, PA sheriff is “upset” that a debt collector is horning in on the scam his office has run “since the beginning of the United States”.
A television ad paid for by “Latinos for Reform” urges people to throw away their battered wife syndrome ways. Not surprisingly, political cheerleaders are upset.
Santa Barbara Sheriff, Bill Brown, is conducting raids on dispensaries and grow houses in Santa Barbara and San Diego counties ahead of votes on Prop 19 and Measure T.
Keep the status quo. Join with Rep. Lamar Smith, other self-interested politicians, a large percentage of law enforcement, prison guards, the liquor industry, Mexican cartels, and thousands of drug dealers in opposing Prop 19.
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C4SS has the perfect response tool for all of those conservatives handing out pocket versions of the U.S. Constitution. It’s a handy pocket version of Lysander Spooner’s classic critique (evisceration, really) of the U.S. Constitution.
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NRO's Jason Lee Stoerts looks into an Ayn Rand train wreck and sees himself staring back.
Is the creation of Temporary Autonomous Zones, securing them against thieves and infiltration, and induction of a new art and culture necessary? It depends on who you ask.
Reuters and The New York Times take on the Presidents' efforts to combat economic law.
1965's version of the "Philosophy of Liberty" in the context of social nudity, expression, censorship, and acceptance.
[Because Ernie asked, "who is Samuel E. Konkin, III?"] A 2002 interview with SEK3 on the history of libertarianism, the LP, the libertarian left, agorism and his own involvement stretching back to the Young Americans for Freedom.
You can't resolve conflicts through violence or violence-by-proxy at the ballot box.
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."
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Use collective purchasing to get high quality food at prices usually reserved for grocery stores and restaurants. Save money while you work together co-operatively within your community.
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Defending and applauding violence paints you in an indefensible corner.
The Obama administration faces their own John Bolton moment as Ahmadinejad agrees to nuclear enrichment scheme.
Debate privacy and security all you want, without knowing the efficacy of the security system, it's all quacking.
One of Manchester, New Hampshire's finest finds out the hard way what happens when the master's agent goes soft on a dope-smoking hippy.
Combining psychic cold-reading techniques with rhetorical illusions, info-tainer Alex Jones conjures the bogeyman.
University of Manitoba professor Bob Altemeyer distills his decades of research into authoritarians and authoritarian followers in a fast, entertaining read.
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Preview before you buy, "The US vs John Lennon"
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The trip from bare subsistence to Boeing began with a simple, but evolutionary discovery.
"Net neutrality" is the shoot-to-kill justification advocates want to use against owners of private property for the crime of slowing electrons. You have to admire propaganda that makes it seem reasonable, and your idea.
Is calling the FBI snitch line the Libertarian solution?
Requiring violent suppression of your would-be competitors through licensing is a sad assessment of your skills.
Ballots from the aborted 2008 Nevada Republican Convention will be counted on Friday, October 30.
Do advocates really want to threaten violence against people who slow the movement of electrons through wires and computers they own?
Sue Lowden is banking on short memories in her bid to take the place of Harry Reid as a senator from Nevada.
Brian Sandoval is running for Nevada governor. And, you should join him, because he's running for Nevada governor.
If these ideas interest you, then you must find out if they are true, and you can only do that by testing the ideas yourself. Intimidation is your enemy, and serves only to shut down your mind.
Simple explanations, especially of problems, have frequently led to scapegoating, and sometimes to genocide. Life is complicated and uncertain.
Almost all of the great social arguments of our time revolve around organizing life in the swamp for maximum survival. But there is a far simpler, more elegant answer: Leave the swamp.
Rationalize anything you want, but most people are living in ways that will be pitied by future generations. The fashion of this world will pass away. And it will not be missed.
The 2nd annual Living Without Borders encuentro will be held from Friday, November 6 to Sunday, November 8, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The story of freedom-seekers who create an alternative society on the Internet - a virtual society, with no possibility of oversight or control. It grows so fast that governments and “leaders” are terrified, and fight to co-opt this cyber-society.
Riot police clash with protesters at the epicenter of economic illiteracy.
The premier life-fulfillment community for your empire.
The premier life-fulfillment community for your empire.
The Nevada state party has filed a complaint against a member of the Nevada state party with the Nevada state party.
Tim Minear's (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) movie script for Heinlein’s “The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress.” [I'll be in my bunk]
Parents, concerned that the sight of a God-King will turn their snowflakes into pyramid-building automatons, are threatening to keep them home from government indoctrination camp. What are they afraid of?
2004 letter from the Department of Homeland Security regarding
photography and federal buildings. I've not seen this policy posted
online before, but it's the most recent official guidance any federal
security force has regarding photography.
Rather than waiting around for that perfect opportunity to emulate statist violence, take direct, market-based action today to de-legitimize the state.
Boost your business and your activism with no begging, no favors, and no debt, just an intriguing and powerful approach to giving and getting solid referrals.
By structuring economic transactions to specifically disregard the state, you can reduce costs and pocket the savings.
Would you build the machine?
Who? Thomas L. Knapp. What? Just the facts. Where? five-point-lede.info When? Now. Why? Because you shouldn't have to wade through two pages of search engine results and ten column inches of background, analysis and innuendo to learn those basic facts.
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This story is like a never-ending madlib that just gets more surreal as time goes on.
From the seat of national power in the United States, now comes the proclamation, "Government is NOT Force". Ridiculous.
Why are some of the planet's biggest cheerleaders for violence scared of a single gun? Because it's visible.
Can it be non-violent?
If Schiff is serious about switching careers [why?], he's going to have to rediscover his message, or have a long, expensive 18 months ahead of him.
A Las Vegas man was surprised, but delighted, at the overwhelming success of his plan to feed filet mignon to local pooches. “I'm sitting on a goldmine of poop!”
As emotions run high and the costs of communication continue to decrease, now is as good a time as any to renew familiarity with a tool to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Liberty Conspiracy's Gardner Goldsmith documents ABC's coordinated campaign to push socialized medicine.
As if by popular declaration the world is crashing down around you, but a simple question comes to mind. Does everything have to be an emergency?
Gardner Goldsmith offers his study of the economic history of government regulations forcing health insurance companies to issue policies regardless of the risks the clients pose due to their age or pre-existing conditions.
Crew detained over 3 hours. Canadian agents searched MARV for pornography and "heinous propoganda", deleted video, and seized laptops. Crew accused of "spreading misinformation" and denied entry to Canada. Pete and Jason are back in the USSA!
The SIGTARP report and Treasury responses are smoke screens. Do not be distracted by the pretty lights.
San Diego Union-Tribune columnist, Ruben Navarrette Jr., thinks 10,000 dead and climbing in Calderon's horrific civil war is just peachy.
Ron Paul's popular Audit the Fed bill may already be exhibiting the unintended consequence of strengthening the Federal Reserve.
The UNODC World Drug Report 2009, to be released today, acknowledges the traction gained by the tax & regulate crowd. As usual, the propaganda is stunning.
Sure. If you want to have a bigger, more tyrannical state.
But, you can buy food with it.
Ron Paul: “J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night may be even more relevant today than it was in 1979. Hopefully, the special thirtieth anniversary edition of this landmark work of libertarian science fiction will inspire a new generation of readers to learn more about the ideas of liberty and become active in the freedom movement.” --Congressman Ron Paul
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El Paso's doing it. The Governator's doing it. Barney Franks is doing it. They're all talking about talking about ending their public-private partnership with drug cartels and bringing distribution in-house.
Just in case there's an NPR intern on the FP mailing list, you may want to alert your news desk.
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The archipelago nation of Tuvalu is in danger of being lost to the sea. You can't stop it, but you can (and will) pay for it.
Senator Chuck Schumer's definitive statement on government.
Wild-eyed, spittle-enhanced, anti-property invective is still wrong.
Judges, authorities, and your fellow serfs have a message for you: obey your masters and you won't be hurt.
For every act of obnoxiousness, there is an opposite and equally obnoxious reaction.
Since your money (and that of your children and grandchildren) is being used to socialize losses at banks and automakers, you may want to know how that's going. Luckily, the US is a free country where you can learn such things.
When you actually do the math, public-private investment pools for toxic assets are nothing but naked wealth transfers from taxpayers to bank shareholders, through the FDIC.
When facing drug charges, there are only two possibilities: either you committed the act alleged, or you didn't. Either way, your plea should be the same.
Why all the sudden outrage over bonuses paid with taxpayer dollars? Here's a list of federal employee bonuses, they just call them “awards”.
If you can type, you can make movies. [oh, this is fun! Surprise us with your creativity.]
Between “mixed economy” and fascism lies the red market. For your sake, you should refuse to do business with red market participants.
In the cult of the victim, honest dealers who fulfill contracts are criminals, and the defaulting party is the victim.
If you think this is going to end with handcrafted toys, books, and ATVs, you are sorely mistaken. Boats, skis (snow and water), FLOTATION DEVICES, bats, balls, gloves, footballs, pads, jerseys, DAYCARE - your child's childhood is over.
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Eric Holder, in response to a reporter's question on DEA raids of cannabis dispensaries, indicated that Obama's campaign promises are now American policy. I'm not convinced.
Stop trying to make it my problem.
Being a good, patriotic American apparently means doing something with your money. No, not that, something else.
The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.
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From deep in a hollowed-out volcano in Phoenix, our undercover operative, Ernest Hancock, has released never before seen pictures of a secret libertarian base of operations.
As if the bloody history of socialism isn't well documented, Wall Street execs begged for at least partial nationalization. As it turns out, they may be the first residents of the new work camps.
Five DEA raids on medical marijuana facilities since January 20 have reformers upset, but hopeful. Meanwhile, their political fu is up in smoke.
As a special gift for loyal readers, here is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a sure-fire, low-risk, high-reward investment.
Widgets and cars are piling up in the warehouses, even as production costs decrease. Why won't cash-starved manufacturers liquidate these inventories?
Human expression has natural limits. Yelling “fire” is not one of them.
Mr. Obama is calling for additional massive government interventions in the US economy. Is there a method to his madness?
As Great Depression II really takes hold, President-elect Barack Obama's got some choice words on the economy. Is he right?
Adam Knott answers in his monograph, A Praxeology of Coercion. I'll release your arm if you read it.
No weapons? “No problem,” say Cheney and Gaffney, while Gareth Porter finds pessimism and no nukes in Iran. WWIV is coming soon to a theater near you.
In a surprise (to me) move, Senate Republicans go union-busting and hand complete control of the government to the incoming Obama administration.
In June 2005, Madden was arrested for possession of methamphetamines that a police informant had planted on her. Although police realized they targeted the wrong person, she's paying for their corruption with 8 years of her life.
Congress desperately needs the auto bailout to pass. The survival of the legislative branch depends on it.
It's an online reality show that goes around the nation exposing what they say is police corruption. The reason they came to Odessa is because they were asked to by a man who says his daughter is falsely imprisoned.
BJ Lawson takes the pulse of Mike Smithson from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition in a three-part video series.
Whether you’re on an elevator, or talking to the press, or just chatting with friends, usually you have 30 seconds to grab their attention - not nearly enough time to fully educate someone. [.pdf document]
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In contrast to a traditional search engine, Silobreaker looks at the data it finds like a person does. It recognises things – companies, people, topics, places – and puts them in context.
Internationally-syndicated talk radio host Ian Bernard (Freeman) was back in court this morning. Word from the courthouse is 90 days were suspended and Bernard is back on the street.
Ian Bernard, host of internationally-syndicated Free Talk Live is sentenced to 93 days in jail for his tenants' choice of lawn furniture, and asking about obligations.
We interrupt the regularly-scheduled victory dances to bring you this important announcement: 45% of voting-age Americans voted "No" for President.
In honor of make-believe office day, I hereby declare myself second line of succession to the Principality of Las Vegas.
105% of registered voters cast a ballot in Wyoming yesterday.
I've been told repeatedly, the key to good governance is educating voters. With everybody and their brother telling people how to vote, I decided to do my part by teaching people where to vote.
The grass roots effort behind this website and petition has evolved out of the concern of millions of caring citizens.
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November 2008 looks iffy, but just in case, we've started ImpeachMcCain.com. After the inaugural, the fears that people have had about McCain become true. And impeachment, disgrace and resignation could be close behind.
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Great song, live from Keene, NH on 10-25-08.
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By taking a minority stake in financial services companies, the US Treasury has become the managing partner. We are, and will be, treated to a textbook example of how economies cannot be centrally-planned.
While explanations of the banking crisis can be long and complicated, this collection will (hopefully) make it simpler to understand from a libertarian perspective.
With alarm bells still ringing about a “credit freeze” it seems as if taxpayers should know exactly what kind of credit they're being asked to un-freeze.
Whether you are a buy-and-hold investor, fundamental trader, or a chart man, be prepared to throw out all you know as the Mother of All Institutional Investors starts lumbering around the trading floor.
Last month, extraordinary redemptions threatened the solvency of Money Market Funds. This month, credit lines are drying up and the Fed, in collusion with the Treasury, has put us on the hook for keeping the funds afloat.
There's good reason to be euphoric - and wary - about the success in turning back the Billionaire Bailout. A bright, shining day...
Do you feel that? For a brief moment in time you can actually feel value going in to your wallet!
Rasmussen and USA Today publish mirror image polls on the Billionaire Bailout. The only poll that matters, however, hasn't read either one.
Bill Kristol sees a giant earth-shattering asteroid that will hit by Monday morning if congress doesn't hand out blank checks this weekend. Translation: the Billionaire Bailout is going to be much worse than predicted by tomorrow night.
Analysis of these events and the economic theory that helps explain what is happening and what to do about it. There are many thousands of articles available and the full text of thousands of books as well as journal articles.
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How can JP Morgan make a profit off purchasing a gigantic collapsed bank? By foisting the liabilities off on you, of course. WARNING: lots of numbers.
Submit bad assets you'd like the government to take off your hands. And remember, when estimating the value of your limited edition Hanson CD "MMMbop", it's not what you can sell these items for that matters, it's what you think
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The John McCain/Sarah Palin op-ed in this week's Wall Street Journal illustrates the fallacy of government intervention in personal economic affairs.
Confusion reigns at the National Press Club as 3rd Party candidates scramble for media attention. Here are all sorts of links that don't add up to me - maybe you can figure out what went on. [stranger and stranger still tonight!]
Today, the Texas Secretary of State had to certify a ballot with Gov. Sarah Palin, who has not accepted the Republican nomination, as a Vice-Presidential candidate. And?
Four Ron Paul Republicans from Nevada have been seated in next week's Republican National Convention, following a 6-hour presentation from GOP activist Mike Weber to the RNC.
Immigrants have the lowest rates of imprisonment for criminal convictions in American society. Both the national and local-level findings present a challenge to criminological theory and sociological perspectives on "straight-line assimilation.*
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The jury foreperson in medical marijuana dispensary owner Charlie Lynch's trial says all we need to know.
Is your bank safe? Now you can find out.
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Arizona may be the only state in the nation where mothers no longer tell their children that some day they can grow up and be President of the United States.
Rather than re-examine the D.C. proclivity to play Civ II in the world's oil fields and block new investment, Reid et al have turned to the medieval practice of blaming sorcery, witchcraft, and speculation for economic ills.
Nevada Republicans will attempt to reclaim control of their own party today. Freedom's Phoenix will be covering the event LIVE with Multiple Video web cams.
Las Vegas delegates to the Nevada GOP Convention met to discuss the attempt to resume the convention on June 28.
Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada Republicans will meet on June 23 at 6:45 pm PDT to discuss the details of the upcoming reconvening of the Nevada Republican Convention. Freedom's Phoenix will have the live stream.
On June 28, Nevada Republicans can barbeque, prove their party loyalty, or join the rest of the delegates to the state convention in Reno to finish what they started.
Nevada Republicans say they will reconvene their state convention on June 28 in Reno. “This is about credentialed Nevada State delegates getting together to form a quorum and finish the business of the State Convention.”
The liberal media is fawning over Scott McClellan in the vain hope that he has some knowledge of anything that has transpired in the Bush White House. That would be a first.
LP delegates in Denver nominated Wayne Allen Root as the Vice-Presidential nominee.
Former Congressman Bob Barr garnered the necessary votes to become the Libertarian Party's Presidential nominee in a battle that lasted 6 ballots.
Yesterday, the Reason Foundation held a "Future of Libertarian Politics" symposium. It's a quick watch with a surprising twist.
Continuously-updating widgets show the location of Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis I and Genesis II space stations. You did know that one company has two space stations in orbit, didn't you?
California Demublican Pete Stark demands the names of 20 Army Generals from Defense Secretary Bob Gates. Whether he wants to rubuke or commend them is up to question.
Professional soldiers are, by virtue of their humanity, anti-war.
Former Congressman Bob Barr has never been shy about expressing his opinion. There's a lot of insights into the question, "who is Bob Barr?" written by his own hand. Here's one example.
Steve Gordon was spot on with predictions he made last year regarding the GOP state conventions.
For the candidate's security, free speech will be exorcised in his vicinity. Oh, and here's your bill.
State Senator Bob Beers attended a meeting of Nevada Republicans this evening in Las Vegas. The meeting has been organized by the Clark County Ron Paul Meetup.
If the Nevada GOP does not reconvene their state convention, state law may provide for decertification of the party.
A minor correction to a CNN article results in closing comments and no correction.
Fox News' Brit Hume, under the headline "Hillary Clinton Gets Her Facts Wrong Again" proceeds to describe a Nevada GOP Convention from an alternate universe. Either that, or he got his facts wrong.
Chris Dyer is celebrating his election, along with two well-known Nevadans, to represent his district at the Republican National Convention, despite the delay of game called by the Nevada Republican Party.
Ron Paul talking first principles in conjunction with his new book, The Revolution a Manifesto. Bonus interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano.
While credit/blame is being leveled on the Ron Paul camp for somehow wresting control of the Nevada State Republican convention, the more-complex truth is that the Revolution mindset spread to the rank-and-file.
Three-question telephone surveys are being used to identify Ron Paul Republicans ahead of this weekend's Nevada state convention.
Mary Ruwart makes the case for accepting liberty as a package deal. Why do even self-described libertarians often reject liberty and what can be done about it?
Throughout the world people will gather with friends and families this weekend to celebrate Christianity's highest holiday, Easter. Tomorrow, though, holders of US debt will celebrate like it's Thanksgiving.
There is growing evidence that religious extremists are dangerously close to controlling the US nuclear stockpile.
Breathless warnings about religious extremists attempting to gain control of nuclear weapons may be masking the evidence that different religious extremists are attempting to gain control of different nuclear weapons.
To a neocon, even an admission of guilt is an opportunity to point fingers and blame everyone and every thing but the neocon ideology.
Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson holds a press conference on voting machines and election security with "security risks" Dan Gutenkauf, John Brakey, and Jim March.
Post debate analysis from Stephen Colbert on the word that should not have been spoken and the crazy reaction from a Texas congressman. The incident is so shocking that Andrew Napolitano calls Stephen by the wrong name.
MSNBC First Read notices there was an active ghost in the Florida debate hall. Then, they change their minds.
With two months left to go in Nevada's caucus process, why is the media declaring winners and losers?
Fox News cut my responses during the re-air of the GOP debate in South Carolina. Here's what's missing from the transcript.
A risky fighting strategy of absorbing your opponents blows while conserving your own strength. How does this apply to Presidential politics in 2008?
Flashing electro-luminescent Ron Paul window stickers.
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Ron Paul goes head-to-head with Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press. (Youtube video in 4 part interview)
Advertising blimps, balls, and balloons.
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A small collection of Ron Paul cartoons and photoshops.
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My initial reactions to the CNN/YouTube/GOP banjo and kazoo review. Please add yours in comments.
Frosty Woolridge lets bias and invective get in the way of objective review.
The affidavit accompanying the seizure warrant for papers and possessions of Liberty Services, Inc. is a 35-page indictment of capitalism.
A popular online marketing technique illustrates one roll of the media in shaping national politics.
Another big billboard is erected along I-15 in California.
Ron Paul Meetup group member describes an amusing, although unconfirmed, account of a GOP HQ solicitation call.
Ron Paul supporters rocked Grand Central Station today. Here are the highlights from a spontaneous rally that started at the Hyatt, proceeded through times square, and ended in the park.
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