February 2012
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Was Rick Santorum really a big spender while in... →
New Reality Check from Ben Swann. Based on Super PAC ads and words from the candidates themselves, you might be wondering if Rick Santorum really was a big spender while in Washington. I’ll give you a hint: yes.
Whoops, that’s not really a hint. My bad.
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Did President Obama's contraception compromise... →
New Reality Check from Ben Swann. He points out something really important about the rights of the individual.
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Was there voter fraud in Maine? →
New Reality Check from Ben Swann. Was there rampant voter fraud in Maine? Watch this video and decide. I know my personal reaction was something along the lines of, “HSFKLJFALAREYOUSERIOUS?!”
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Reality Check: ACTA →
Reality Check: The Internet piracy law you probably haven’t heard of, is ACTA even constitutional?
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“The truth is that goals move us and goals shape us. What we most desire to...”
– Joshua Becker
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“There is one little habit I’ve learned that has changed everything else in my...”
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Ron Paul Will Lose the 2012 Election, But Change... →
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The highlight of the last Republican presidential debate before the Florida primary might have been when debate moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul a question about U.S. relations with Cuba:
“Imagine you’re in the Oval Office. You speak to Raul Castro. What would you say to him?” Blitzer asked. Paul responded characteristically after a chuckle, “Well, I’d ask him what he called...
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January 2012
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“I create silence by subtracting, and not filling the resulting emptiness withe...”
– Leo Babauta
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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“When we learn a martial art, or ballet, or gymnastics, or soccer … we...”
– Leo Babauta
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Reality Check on the Ron Paul Newsletters
Ben Swann just did a two part report on the Ron Paul newsletters. Very well researched and very fair.
The Story Behind the Ron Paul Newsletters
The Name of a “Mystery Writer” of One of Ron Paul’s “Racist” Newsletters
Here’s where he absolutely killed it (emphasis mine):
But there is a bigger issue than just Ron Paul here.
What you may not know is that in...
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December 2011
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Latest establishment/media smears against Ron Paul →
brownboss:
1. If Ron Paul wins Iowa, it doesn’t matter, nor does the Iowa caucus; but who gets 2nd and 3rd matters a great deal. 2. Ron Paul is a racist, even though among blacks he is polling HIGHER than all the other GOP candidates. 3. “No true patriot should support Ron Paul,” says Dick Morris, even though Ron Paul’s top three donors are the active duty men and women of the US Army, US Air...
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Blowback is Real
I found a very good article that tries to explain the concept of “blowback,” something that Ron Paul has been trying to talk about for a while now. The article quoted an exchange between Ron Paul, Wendell Goler and Rudy Giuliani during a 2007 presidential debate. Ron Paul was asked why he opposed foreign interventionism and his response was in light of 9/11:
Paul: Have you ever read...
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quietly-living-life asked: Why shouldn't women strive to do anything they want, though, including things that traditionally have been done by men? I mean, just because something has been traditionally done by a man doesn't mean that it's wrong for a woman to try to do it. If that were true, then it would be wrong for women to go to college, get a job, or do anything other than being a stay-at-home mom....
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quietly-living-life asked: I see that the article you just posted (titled "What Women Need") is written by a woman who's against feminism. Are you yourself against feminism? If so, then why do you think it's a bad thing for women to fight for equality and an end to patriarchy?
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What Women Need →
Frederica Mathewes-Green in her article titled “What Women Need” explains why abortion remains a heated issue in feminism. A former feminist herself, she brings an inside perspective, of sorts. Her argument is that feminists sought to be equal to men with respect to having a career and having a promiscuous sex-life. Pregnancy, obviously, would put a hindrance to that. Abortion,...
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If you want to know the TRUTH about Ron Paul's... →
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Entire sections of these newsletters are being taken entirely out of context. Sentences are completely cut off to make statements appear racist with no context to them.
It may be hard to believe that the passages you’ve seen over and over could be taken out of context, but when you read them the way they were originally written it’s pretty clear that they were.
I have known about...
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Sickening Injustice
The pretrial Article 32 hearing for Bradley Manning ended. He’ll most certainly receive a court marshal. I think it’s fair to say he’ll most likely receive life in prison. He could technically get the death penalty. There’s still a large question remaining, however: how exactly did his alleged leak of hundreds of thousands of secret documents, logs and at least one video,...
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Ron Paul's Foreign Policy is Insane?
I just wanted to narrow in a specific section of the exchange I quoted earlier today between Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann. There’s something incredibly insane here that absolutely needs to be pointed out:
Bachmann: Can I respond? And the problem would be the greatest under-reaction in world history if we have an avowed madman who uses that nuclear weapon to wipe nations off the face of...
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Facts Sure Are Annoying
Remember how during the last debate in Iowa Ron Paul got into a heated exchange with Michelle Bachmann over foreign policy? And remember how Michelle Bachmann said that we have evidence that Iran is within months of obtaining nuclear weapons they plan on using against neighboring nations and against us? And remember how crazy old Ron Paul said that wasn’t true? And remember how Michelle...
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A Foreign Policy of Nonintervention
Having just finished watching the latest debate between the Republican presidential candidates I have to admit; I think this is the most frustrated I’ve been so far. The main source of frustration for me was during the exchanges over the foreign policy debate. I’m not sure why I was so surprised, really. It’s not like any of the candidates positions have changed. They were...